A-Team Insight Author: sharon
SIX Extends DocHub Platform Reach through Finnova
Swiss financial data specialist SIX today made its Regulatory Document Hub (DocHub) available as to the wider Swiss financial market for the first time through Finnova, a Swiss provider of software and services. DocHub is a fully automated platform that connects product manufacturers with distributors to ensure Key Information Documents (KIDs) and other regulatory documents...
There Is No Spoon: Matrix IDM Takes EDM to the Cloud
Matrix IDM, an investment data platform specialising in EDM as SaaS, has had a busy year. With offices in Sydney, London and New York, two major new clients signed up over the past month and over half a trillion dollars now managed on its platform, the start-up has come a long way since its launch...
S&P Creates One Stop Data Shop with New Global Marketplace
Earlier this month, S&P Global took a major step forward with the launch of its Global Marketplace, a new data platform that combines a broad catalogue of datasets including both proprietary S&P Global content and third-party alternative data options. “This is an opportunity to bring it all together, and to make it easy for clients...
Feeding the Beast: How One Firm is Changing up Compliance Through NLP
Charlie Henderson is on a mission – to free businesses from the daily interruption of non-core tasks. Together with business partner Lucas Wurfbain he has spent the last few years figuring out how to structure enterprise activity data in order to identify hidden risks and maximise value using AI. The result? FeedStock, a firm founded...
DTCC Steps Up SFTR Testing with Delta Capita
Market infrastructure giant The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has extended its collaboration with London-based technology consulting and managed services specialist Delta Capita to help firms meet their trade reporting requirements under SFTR, due to come into force in July after the first phase was delayed from its initial April start date due to...
FCA to Increase Surveillance Scrutiny Over Market Abuse Concerns
In its latest Market Watch of May 2020, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) shines a spotlight on the challenges of monitoring against market abuse during the coronavirus pandemic – warning that it will continue to take enforcement action, and urging financial services firms to review and where necessary upgrade their systems and processes to...
Communications = Key Compliance Concern During Covid-19
COVID-19, lockdown, working from home and self-isolation are now well established across the financial industry, but how are compliance teams impacted? A recent survey on market abuse monitoring from SteelEye found that almost half (40%) of the 80 market participants have seen their compliance budgets increase since the lockdown, with monitoring communications seen as the...
New Fixnetix Chief Beeman Outlines Vision for Front-Office Lift-Out Offering
Jake Beeman, who took over as general manager of Fixnetix this month following the departure of Steve Williams, has arrived with the remit to expand on the company’s vision for front-office transformation, with a specific focus on data, analytics and infrastructure. Beeman took on his new role at Fixnetix on May 13, Prior to that...
BrokerTec and TriOptima Collaborate on End-To-End Repo Workflow Solution
BrokerTec, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, and TriOptima, an infrastructure service that lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, have collaborated to create the industry’s first end-to-end repo workflow solution for industry participants, providing full automation across the lifecycle of a repo trade. Connecting the...
Crosslake Fibre Strengthens US/Canada Connection with 165 Halsey Street Expansion
Crosslake Fibre, a telecoms operator specialising in connectivity between Canada and the US, has expanded its network into the 1.2 million square foot data center, colocation and telecom carrier hotel 165 Halsey Street, just 13 miles from Manhattan. The new network, which delivers sub-9 ms round trip delay (RTD) performance between Toronto and New York...