A-Team Insight Author: sharon
Generative AI Poised for Leading Role as Regulatory Data Burden Grows
Amidst the hype around Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), practitioners are beginning to realise that these emerging technologies can make a positive impact on the collection and validation of regulatory data. The categories and scope of regulatory data requirements have expanded considerably in response to rapid market developments and growing regulatory scrutiny....
Financial Firms Reliant on Management by Policy for Comms Compliance, Survey Finds
Management by policy – specifically bans on communications channels, particularly WhatsApp – remains the most the most common approach among financial institutions to ensuring secure, compliant communications, according to a survey from archiving specialist Global Relay. Although the figure dropped by 15% from a year, 43% of survey respondents said bans were their preferred solution....
Data Mesh and The People Problem
Since their conceptualisation five years ago, data meshes have yet to achieve the outright transformation of data management that many had forecast. That is not the fault of the concept or its philosophical underpinnings, but an issue of human nature, argues one of the technology’s proponents. Data Virtuality’s Tammie Coles believes that the key ingredient...
The Top 12 Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Solutions in 2024
Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) has evolved significantly in recent years. In its early days, with limited tools and methods available for detailed cost analysis, the focus of TCA was on simple measures of trading costs, such as commissions and fees, with basic benchmarks like VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) and TWAP (Time Weighted Average Price)...
FINBOURNE Technology Expands Integration with Taskize to Enhance Post-Trade Operational Workflows
FINBOURNE Technology, the investment data management solutions provider, has expanded its integration with Taskize, the post-trade operational workflow specialists, to improve the management of complex IBOR (Investment Book of Record) and ABOR (Accounting Book of Record) post-trade exceptions. For FINBOURNE clients, the integration with Taskize aims to reduce resolution times, lower human error, and boost...
Building the Future of Trade Surveillance: A Conversation with Eventus CEO Travis Schwab
Eventus, the trade surveillance and financial risk solutions vendor, is currently experiencing a strong growth phase, marked by nearly perfect customer retention rates, expansion across various asset classes and geographies, and consistently positive reviews of its platform. The company, which just reported a 25% increase in its client base over the past year, has recently...
DTCC and Cboe Clear Europe Collaborate to Enhance Post-Trade Workflow for OTC Cash Equities
DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, is collaborating with Cboe Clear Europe, the pan-European cash equities Central Counterparty (CCP), to improve settlement efficiencies for over-the-counter (OTC) cash equities trades in UK and European markets. The collaboration aims to integrate OTC cash equities trades into Cboe Clear Europe’s cleared environment, enabling...
Rimes changes hands, plans accelerated expansion as Five Arrows completes acquisition
Rimes, a provider of EDM-as-a-Service and investment platform solutions, is in new hands following the completion of its acquisition by Five Arrows, the private equity arm of Rothschild & Co. The partners say the acquisition provides a foundation for accelerated global expansion. The deal was announced in April 2024 and sees Rimes move on from...
TurinTech innovates with Artemis code optimisation
TurinTech, a London-based technology vendor, plans to revolutionise code optimisation with its GenAI Artemis solution. Artemis is based on a proprietary large language model (LLM) – although it can be used with other LLMs – that is trained to help financial firms optimise software code, speed up execution, reduce cloud costs and lower carbon emissions....
Webinar Review: ESG Data Sourcing and Management to Meet Your ESG Strategy, Objectives and Timeline
Taming the data management challenges of ESG integration offers huge rewards for financial institutions. But the difficulty of overcoming those hurdles has increased as the volume and variety of that data swells, exposing firms to potentially severe operational, legal and reputational risks. For that reason, getting ESG data management right has become an important goal...