A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Governor Software Partners with AI Specialists Waymark for Global Coverage
Oversight solutions specialist Governor has become a global reseller of financial regulatory content from UK-based Waymark Tech: including current regulations, regulatory news and regulatory change. The agreement launches Governor Software’s regulatory compliance solution onto the world stage, as Governor Reg can now support compliance teams across all financial regulations worldwide. Governor Reg was initially developed...
Why the Finance Industry Needs Traceable Timing Across All its Operations
By Richard Hoptroff, Founder and CTO of Hoptroff London. As the virtual world expands, so do the applications for highly accurate, traceable time. Its most established industry is finance. If clocks on servers drift and are untraceable back to a verified source of universal time (UTC), conflicts can arise. Orders can look as if they...
All Eyes on Oracle as it Upgrades Financial Crime Capabilities
Global anti-money laundering and sanctions fines hit a record high of $5.7 billion in 2019 (compared to $3 billion in 2018 and $2 billion in 2017). Coupled with the growing threat of sophistication, and rising compliance costs, financial institutions are desperate for solutions to help them deter financial crime – and avoid massive penalties. Oracle...
Hierarchies – Approach with Care
By Colin Gibson, Architecture & Data Management Consultant at Katano Limited. What is the item you find hardest to locate in a supermarket? You know where to find it in your local store, but what confounds you when you try to find it in a different chain? What about Bovril Yeast Extract (other yeast extract...
MEET THE MAKER … Seth Brotman, CEO of Canoe Intelligence
Welcome to our newest interview series introducing the most innovative entrepreneurs and start-ups breaking the mold within the Data Management space. Have you heard of Canoe Intelligence yet? First launched in 2018, this adventurous enterprise applies sophisticated machine-learning and artificial intelligence techniques to reduce the burden of manual investment data management by transforming unstructured reporting...
Fenergo Gets $80 Million Investment from ABN Amro and DXC Technology
Dublin-based Fenergo has secured $80 million of new funding from ABN Amro and financial infrastructure specialist DXC Technology in one of the biggest RegTech financing rounds yet. The company, which specialises in solutions for AML and KYC, as well as client lifecycle management (CLM), plans to use the funds to acquire new capabilities in the...
TRG Screen Strikes Again with Market Data Insights (MDI) Acquisition
In yet another move to bring on board key functionality, spend management specialist TRG Screen has acquired Market Data Insights (MDI), which provides market data expense management on a managed services basis. The acquisition could provide TRG Screen with a robust managed services option as it faces new entrants with strong cloud/SaaS/managed services bent, like...
IHS Markit Boosts TCA Service Down Under with Yieldbroker
IHS Markit is enriching the fixed income analytics within its Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) service by adding transaction data from the Yieldbroker electronic trading platform for Australian and New Zealand debt securities and derivatives. The move seeks to bolster IHS Markit’s best execution capabilities for the fixed income marketplace, for which sourcing robust data sets...
Collibra Debuts Data Lineage Solution
Collibra has revealed its latest solution, a data lineage tool that enables organizations to understand where data comes from and how it flows and transforms across the enterprise. The launch marks the first integration since the firm acquired automated technical lineage provider SQLdep back in July 2019. Targeting large enterprises, the solution offers native lineage...
Decision-Making, Not Compliance, Drives Data Governance Programs
Data governance drivers have shifted, with better decision-making now a priority when it comes to data governance decisions – but organizations are still grappling with data governance challenges and still depend largely on manual approaches for data lineage, data cataloguing and data mapping. So finds data modelling specialist erwin in its latest report on the...