A-Team Insight Author: sharon
FMSB Urges Strengthening of Data Standards to Balance Tech Evolution
The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) in its latest Spotlight Review warns that if markets are to remain stable and trusted, fair and effective, then the rapid growth of new technology and of data science must be balanced with more effective governance and control. The report, which examines the crucial role of data management in...
SmartSearch Adds Facial Recognition Feature in Response to COVID-19
Yorkshire-based AML specialist SmartSearch has introduced a new facial recognition feature to its one stop shop’ Know Your Customer (KYC) and AML platform, in response to restrictions on ID verification due to COVID-19. The automatic verification platform enables clients to perform full electronic ID verification and screening remotely, reducing the impact on firms from current...
Shield Expands Surveillance Platform with Advanced Workflow Functionality
Israeli RegTech provider Shield has launched a new Advanced Workflow function as part of its wider eComms Surveillance platform, with the goal of helping financial firms to build their own workflows and business processes within the application, ensuring compliance investigations meet the requirements of the business, and enabling different teams to be managed from one...
How a Great Private Bank Can Be Greater Still with the Right CRM
By Alessandro Tonchia, Co-Founder and Head of Strategy at Finantix The best relationship managers are proactive with their clients. Not only do they know the client history and have to hand everything a client asks for or currently requires, they also anticipate requests, and can even point their clients to interesting, relevant information that might...
Colt Technology Lowers Latency on European Routes
Colt Technology Services, a provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, has lowered the latency on its European PrizmNet routes, targeting the high frequency trading (HFT) needs of financial brokers, investment funds and banks, and FX-related applications. Following the firm’s recent investment in ultra-low latency PrizmNet infrastructure in Asia, Colt has now implemented next-generation Arista 7130 Layer...
Hedge Funds Gulping Up Alternative Data for Competitive Gain
Use of alternative data is on the rise, and a new study from the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), in collaboration with fund services and technology provider SS&C, finds that more than half (53%) of surveyed hedge funds globally now use alternative data to help them generate outperformance. Alternative data is unconventional or non-market data...
Pico Taps Frank Troise as Co-CEO
Markets technology and infrastructure specialist Pico has named electronic trading veteran Frank Troise as co-CEO in what current chairman, CEO and founder Jarrod Yuster terms the latest step toward taking the company to the next level of growth. The move – which will tap Troise’s operational expertise to support Pico’s expansion across its target market...
Are we Reaching an Inflexion Point in Regulatory Compliance?
In its 11th annual Cost of Compliance survey, Thomson Reuters warns that financial services firms are facing a cyclical shift in the way they must handle compliance obligations: as issues including a tightening of risk and compliance budgets, regulatory and cultural change and the possibility of increasing personal liability all point towards a long-term trend...
New Managed Data Service from Bloomberg Opens up Enterprise-Wide Access
Bloomberg has launched a new managed service, Data License Plus (DL+), to aggregate a client’s Bloomberg data into a single dataset, enabling users to explore and interact with it through a web-based user interface. The new service aims to make DL data easier to access throughout the enterprise, while reducing the need for data processing....
Ones and Zeros: How Asset Managers Can be Digital Transformation Heroes
By Phil Davies, CTO of Milestone Group. The pace of digital transformation in asset management has been referred to as glacial. However, this new decade comes at an inflection point – over the past couple of years, the discussion has picked up considerably with firms finally embracing the digital ecosystem. People have built up both confidence...