A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Encompass Secures New Funding from Beacon
London-based Know Your Customer (KYC) automation software provider Encompass Corp. has secured new investment from Beacon Equity Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm that focuses on companies in the regulatory and compliance space, as part of a broader capital round that included existing investors. Joe Bradley will join Encompass’s Advisory Council, to sit alongside existing members Stephen Allen,...
The Lexicon is Dead – Time to Reboot
By Matt Storey, Chief Product Officer, SteelEye. For years now, surveillance of regulated employees at financial services firms has relied on the lexicon, a piece of technology that scans staff for specific words or sequences of words that could be associated with an act of market abuse or misconduct. For example, a firm might have...
What Can We Expect from European Trading Post-Brexit?
By Sylvain Thieullent, CEO, Horizon Software. The abrupt finalisation of the Brexit agreement meant UK-based firms suddenly had to trade stocks in the EU, and vice versa. Almost overnight, firms had to move all operations to the EU or they simply couldn’t trade. It’s not easy to move operations from one country to another, let alone in...
Quantexa Addresses AML with Contextual Decision Intelligence
London-based data and analytics company Quantexa is addressing the challenge of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring and investigation with the use of contextual decision intelligence (CDI), a means of enriching internal data with external data and building networks of relationships to create a contextual view of a customer. This approach is aimed at generating meaningful alerts...
Basel III Reforms: ‘Heads in the Cloud’ Time for Financial Institutions
By Alexander Dorfmann, Senior Product Manager, SIX. Cast your mind back to around this time 14 years ago, when a certain investment bank’s share price nose-dived amid major concerns that its short-term liabilities were far greater than its liquid assets. That bank was Lehman Brothers, of course, and its downfall was underpinned by a fundamental...
Low-Code Specialist Genesis Raises $45 Million from Accel and Others
In another indication of the industry’s appetite for low-code application development techniques, Genesis, a pioneer in the space, has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Accel, and supported by GV, Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Citi, Illuminate Financial and Tribeca Early Stage Partners. Genesis provides a low-code...
Northern Trust and Two Sigma Partner to Provide Quantitative Analytics to Asset Allocators
Northern Trust and Two Sigma have entered into a strategic agreement to offer quantitative analytics through Venn, Two Sigma’s cloud-based investment analytics platform, to Northern Trust’s clients. The partnership provides asset allocators with enhanced portfolio insights and analytics, and aims to allow them to make better investment decisions. Under the agreement, Northern Trust will offer...
A-Team Webinar to Examine Trade Surveillance in Today’s New Normal
A panel of trading surveillance experts will discuss lessons learned and best practices for ensuring compliance in work from home (WFH) environments on A-Team Group’s April 8 webinar: Trade surveillance: Deploying monitoring and surveillance capabilities for today’s new normal. The webinar – sponsored by OneMarketData and ACA Compliance – will discuss the trade surveillance and...
BidFX Launches Data & Analytics Suite for Insight into FX Pricing, Market Impact & Liquidity
BidFX, a provider of cloud-hosted electronic trading solutions for the foreign exchange markets, has launched BidFX Data and Analytics to complement its existing EMS, risk and compliance modules and TCA offerings. The new Data and Analytics suite has been designed to give clients a comprehensive view of the pricing, market impact and liquidity for every...
Derivatives Service Bureau Sets Timeline for Consultation on OTC ISIN and CFI Services in 2022
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published the timeline for its 2021 industry consultation on 2022 OTC ISIN and CFI service provision. Core themes focus on providing updates for service enhancements sought last year, as well as risk analysis relating to the DSB’s cybersecurity and cloud resilience. The OTC ISIN and CFI consultation will operate...