A-Team Insight Author: sharon
MarketAxess to Acquire Quantitative Trading Tech Provider Pragma
MarketAxess Holdings Inc., the electronic trading platform operator for fixed-income securities, has agreed to acquire quantitative & algorithmic trading technology specialist Pragma. Pragma provides broker-neutral, multi-asset trading & execution solutions across equities, FX and fixed-income, and is used by asset managers, hedge funds, broker-dealers, banks, and exchanges across the globe. It managed over $2 trillion...
CUSIP Global Services Releases Unique Entity Identifier for Syndicated Corporate Loan Market
CUSIP Global Services has released a unique entity identifier for the $5 trillion syndicated corporate loan market. The CUSIP Entity Identifier (CEI) is a unique 10-character code assigned to each legal entity holding corporate loans and was developed in collaboration with the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) and Versana. The identifier provides transparency into...
Walking the Tightrope of Increasing Regulatory Data Collection Initiatives
By Kelly Attrill, Strategy and Advisory Practice Head, Lab49. In a digital world where the volume, velocity and granularity of data continues to increase, there is even more potential to leverage the data created. In the financial services industry, firms have recognized the power of data for oversight, compliance and policy development. Regulators across financial...
ACA Adds SaaS Best Execution Solution to ComplianceAlpha Platform
ACA has added a best execution solution to its ComplianceAlpha RegTech platform. The solution is available as Software-as-a-Service and integrates with the platforms Employee Compliance and Market Abuse Surveillance solutions, as well as third-party systems. The ACA solution is designed to help global firms facilitate the exchange of critical data and reduce the cost and...
Clearstream Banking Selects Regnology Rcloud Solution for Reporting
Clearstream Banking, a central securities depository and provider of global post-trade services within the Deutsche Börse Group, has engaged Regnology to migrate its on premise regulatory reporting to the cloud using Regnology’s Rcloud solution, which is powered by the Google Cloud Platform and was released in 2022. The migration is subject to regulatory approval. The...
TNS Introduces TNS Cloud–Server Management Suite to Streamline Trading Infrastructure
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has expanded its TNS Cloud platform with the launch of the TNS Cloud–Server Management Suite. Following the introduction of the company’s dedicated server offering designed for high-performance trading in February, the new service adds hands-on management to TNS’ bare metal servers and ultra-low latency trading connectivity, aiming to significantly reduce the...
Could do Better: Banks Still Unprepared for ESG Regulations, Says Fenergo
Banks still have a lot of work to do if they are to bring their data and technology systems in line with their reporting obligations under established and looming sustainability regulations, according to a leading provider of compliance solutions. While European lenders are in a stronger position than their overseas counterparts, they are still struggling...
Model Behaviour: Testing the Tools that Underpin ESG Decisions
The quality of data and technology used in ESG systems is of growing importance to investors and regulators as they seek to do more with the information available, to comply with regulations and to arm themselves against accusations of greenwashing. Last week we discussed the emerging body of work that’s bringing accountancy-level assurance to ESG...
KX and DataArt Partner to Drive Performance of Cloud-Based Data Management, ML and AI
KX, maker of the KDB.AI vector database, and DataArt, a global software engineering firm, have made a strategic partnership to help customers master the challenges of migrating real-time analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads to the AWS cloud. The companies say their alliance offers a solution for firms looking to upgrade their...
eflow Global Plans Range of New Products Post £7 Million Funding Round
RegTech solutions provider eflow Global has raised £7 million in capital through a Series A funding round. The company plans to invest the funds in R&D for new products and to accelerate growth with a particular emphasis on North America and Asia-Pacific. Founded in 2004, eflow provides financial firms with software solutions to help them...