Mark Hepsworth Sets Sail as CEO of Asset Control
The arrival of Mark Hepsworth at Asset Control signals a shift away from the company’s traditional focus on large enterprise data management solutions and a move towards the provision of more focused use case products such as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) solution introduced last month and the company’s independent price verification service....
Citisoft Details Impact of Blockchain on Buy-Side Data Management
Blockchain, or distributed ledger, technology is expected to track a similar adoption curve as the internet, with a period of inspiration and experimentation being followed by a phase of ‘crossing the chasm’, and a final phase of growth and mass adoption leading to full maturity of the technology by 2035. A recent report by Citisoft...
Xenomorph Develops TimeScape EDM+ to Support Regulations Including FRTB
Xenomorph is pushing its TimeScape EDM+ data management and analytics solution into the regulatory compliance space, initially helping users master the data management requirements of the Basel Committee’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) and BCBS 239 regulation. The regulatory modules of TimeScape EDM+ are not yet in the market, although Xenomorph is talking...
Blockchain Technology is Making Progress but Needs Standards, Business Cases and Brave Pioneers
Summer in the City and time to review what could, arguably, be the ‘next big thing’ for capital markets – blockchain technology. It is certainly on the agenda across the financial services sector, consortia have been set up to drive development, and the business case looks great, with blockchain offering the potential for more efficient,...
Avox Migrates to Amazon Web Services Cloud
Avox Data Services has migrated its data servers to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud as part of a strategic move by parent DTCC to adopt technologies with the largest potential to improve applications. Avox is an early adopter of cloud in the DTCC group and says its move to AWS could reduce the cost...
Asset Control Extends AC Risk Data Manager to Support FRTB
Asset Control has made an early start to developing a solution for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation that is due to take effect in January 2019. The solution builds on the AC Risk Data Manager software introduced by the company a year ago and focuses on market data management requirements required by...
AIM Software Renews Roadmap and Signs Move to Managed Services
AIM Software has restructured, hired senior executives and put together a product roadmap that increases investment in product development and signposts moves into both managed services and the middle office. We caught up with Gayatri Raman, the company’s recently appointed managing director and chief operating officer, to find out more about the restructure and AIM’s...
ICE Integrates Acquired Data Assets to Deliver ICE Data Services
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has combined its proprietary exchange data with data and services acquired over the past few years to deliver ICE Data Services. The move results from the ongoing integration of Interactive Data, which was acquired in December 2015, and brings ICE into closer competition with Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg. ICE Data Services pulls...
A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continues to pose major challenges as financial institutions build compliance programmes designed to manage huge volumes of data required by the regulation while waiting for final technical and implementation standards from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The implications of MiFID II for data management –...
A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of Client Onboarding and KYC
Increasing cost, complexity and regulatory change continue to challenge firms implementing client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) systems, but with a focus on data management and data quality many are developing successful solutions that meet compliance requirements and support business strategy. Webinar Recording: Listen to the recent Client onboarding and KYC: the data management...