A-Team Insight Author: sharon
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...
BMLL Partners with INQDATA to Deliver Historical Market Data and Analytics to kdb+ Users
BMLL, provider of harmonised historical Level 3, 2, and 1 data and analytics for global equity, ETF, and futures markets, has partnered with data solutions provider INQDATA, to offer financial market firms access to comprehensive and accurate historical market data directly within their kdb+ environment, thus increasing performance and reducing infrastructure costs by eliminating the...
Informatica Broadens Databricks Partnership with GenAI Tools
Informatica has deepened its association with Databricks, providing four new products and service integrations that it says will enable customers to implement generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications at scale. The basket of new offerings brings together Informatica’s range of AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) capabilities within Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, the California-based enterprise cloud...
ESMA Good Practices Statement Hides a Warning on Pre-Close Calls
ESMA recently published a statement titled Good practices in relation to pre-close calls. The statement was prompted by media reports and verification by National Competent Authorities (NCAs) of a link between pre-close calls between issuers and analysts and subsequent volatility, in some cases raising suspicion about possible unlawful disclosure of inside information. It should be...
Fenergo launches AI powered CLM with Amazon Bedrock
Fenergo recently launched its AI Powered Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) at Money2020 in Amsterdam. The new CLM solution leverages Amazon Bedrock to enhance operational efficiencies in onboarding, client and counterparty management, and regulatory compliance. This launch comes at a time when financial institutions are grappling with intensifying regulatory pressures and rising costs. Stella Clarke, Chief...
FRTB Compliance – New Rules and Data Challenges for Global Banks
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) was developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) as part of the Basel III framework to address several key shortcomings identified in the market risk regulatory framework that existed under Basel II.5. FRTB was finalized in January 2016 and initially scheduled for implementation by January...
Data Veteran Puts his Expertise to Use in Altruistic Venture
Hany Choueiri has spent the past decade-and-a-half enabling some of the largest financial institutions in the world to make the best use of their data. Now he is freely giving his expertise to helping smaller firms do the same for themselves. The creator of data quality and management systems for HSBC’s European operations and the...
The Top 12 Smart Order Routing Technologies in 2024
Smart Order Routing (SOR), the automated process of directing orders to the most appropriate trading venue to achieve the best possible execution – typically using algorithms to analyse multiple factors, such as price, liquidity, speed and likelihood of execution, across various exchanges and trading platforms – has been a feature of electronic markets in some...
A-Team Group Announces Winners of TradingTech Insight Awards USA 2024
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its TradingTech Insight Awards USA 2024. These awards recognise excellence in trading solutions, services and consultancy for capital markets, and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions. The awards were presented during a celebratory drinks reception after the close of A-Team Group’s TradingTech...