A-Team Insight Author: sharon
The Composable Enterprise and Desktop Integration
By James Wooster, COO, Glue42. The starting point for this piece was a statistic buried within a report on the UK Contact Centre market[1]. It stated, on page 138, that across all industries, including Capital Markets, the cost of users navigating themselves within and between applications was estimated to be in excess of £4.3 billion...
Capital Group Joins Plato Partnership
Investment manager Capital Group has joined Plato Partnership, the not-for-profit with a focus on equity market structure and operations, as a founding buy-side member. The firm joins Plato’s ranks of buy-side members including Axa Investment Managers, Baillie Gifford, BlackRock, Fidelity International, Norges Bank Investment Management, Union Investment, Liontrust, Legal & General Investment Management, Janus Henderson,...
Pico Closes $135 Million Series C with Eye on Strategic Acquisitions
Pico’s addition of Intel Capital as a new investor – announced last week – completes the trading infrastructure specialist’s $135 million Series C investment round, setting in place the foundation for its next phase of growth. Encouraged by the success of its 2018 purchase of Corvil, Pico intends spending at least some of that cash...
3di Purchase of IDLA Adds Licensing Expertise to Data Management Consulting Practice
3d innovations’ (3di) acquisition of Investment Data Licensing Advisors (IDLA) adds the latter’s expertise in market and data licensing best practices with the former’s data management consulting practice and Profiler offering. As part of the agreement, IDLA principal John White will lead the combined entity as 3di CEO. Terms weren’t disclosed. The arrangement is an...
BidFX Expands Algo Trading Capability in FX market
BidFX, a cloud-based provider of FX trading solutions, has added four State Street FX algo strategies to its platform, bringing the total number of algo providers it hosts to 20. It is also adding FX options liquidity providers to the platform and recently released an FX algo wheel. While market volatility caused by the coronavirus...
Full Circle: What We’ve Learned From A Crazy Year
2020 is finally (thankfully!) drawing to a close. It’s our last issue of the year, and what a year it has been. From lockdowns to loopholes, disaster recovery and doom-mongering to booming markets and business as usual, the past 12 months have been a rollercoaster ride for everyone, and the financial services have not escaped....
Thomson Reuters Report on ‘Fintech, RegTech and the Role of Compliance’ Finds Increased Use of Technology During Pandemic
The Thomson Reuters’ Fintech, RegTech and the Role of Compliance Report 2021, released this week, finds that the adoption and implementation of technology has taken a huge step forward during the pandemic, despite the continuing budget challenges that firms face. Sector growth is expected to accelerate in the coming months and years, predicts the report,...
DTCC Acquires Sapient’s Platform for Compliance Management Reporting
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which provides market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has acquired Publicis Sapient’s Compliance Management Reporting System (CMRS). DTCC plans to integrate the system with its own Report Hub service to create a comprehensive pre- and post trade reporting solution. Firms using the newly expanded DTCC Report...
BTP Partners with The Demex Group on Climate Risk
Enterprise blockchain company Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP) has partnered with climate risk insurtech The Demex Group to deliver climate-resilience through financial risk solutions on a global scale. Extreme weather events, natural disasters and the failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change were all included in the top five global risks by the World Economic...
GLEIF Calls Global Industries to Join Development of Cryptographically Verifiable LEI
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has set out grand plans to create a digitised LEI service based on a digitally verifiable credential containing the LEI – the vLEI – and able to provide automated identity verification between counterparties. The ambition is for all industry sectors globally, including financial services, to embed new and...