SIX Financial Information Develops Utility for Compliance with Investor Protection Rules
SIX Financial Information is developing a document management utility designed to help financial institutions comply with investor protection rules issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and due to take effect on January 1st 2017. The rules are also an element of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), a European regulation...
Nice Actimize Moves into Middle Tier Market with Cloud Based AML Solution
Nice Actimize is moving into the mid-sized financial institutions market with a cloud platform that will initially provide an anti-money laundering (AML) software-as-a-service solution and later a complete suite of financial crime applications. The AML solution, Actimize AML Essentials, is a packaged and variant version of the company’s AML enterprise software. It covers suspicious activity...
Markit Releases Due Diligence Solution for Common Reporting Standard
Markit is addressing the customer due diligence requirements of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) with a solution based on its tax and Know Your Customer (KYC) experience, and designed in conjunction with five market participants including Barclays and Brown Brothers Harriman. Essentially, CRS is a global version of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act...
Capital Markets’ Regulatory Burden: The Case for FIBO as a Relief
By Bob Iati, Senior Director of Capital Markets at Dun & Bradstreet The financial industry expends so much effort to meet difficult regulatory requirements that its ability to invest in innovative technologies is severely curtailed. However, many in the industry now find that investments in data standards – such as the Financial Industry Business Ontology...
Entity Data Management: Strategic Options and Approaches, London Seminar 13th April
By Dennis Slattery, CEO at EDMworks How do some teams keep winning? Every week, we see winners and losers in a variety of team sports. A tiny number of teams consistently outperform the rest. They lose occasionally, but on average they come out on top over a sequence of fixtures. Barcelona has dominated elite football...
IHS and Markit Merger Set to Result in Large Scale Information Business
The merger of IHS and Markit will create a large scale information provider working across the financial services, energy and transport markets, and taking advantage of cross selling opportunities within the companies’ combined customer base. What is less clear is the priority the merged company will give to financial data solutions, particularly Markit’s processing services...
A-Team Webinar Notes Need for Next Generation Technologies to Improve Data Quality
Next generation technologies that support the improvement of data quality are on the agenda at many financial institutions as they look to improve their regulatory response and consider how to gain competitive advantage. Among the technology options, data automation and cognitive technologies offer significant potential, along with managed services and cloud computing. Market appetite for...
Federated Investors Implements Eagle Solutions in Platform Transformation Project
Federated Investors, a large investment manager in the US, is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions as part of a platform transformation designed to support growth and regulatory compliance. The integration of the Eagle solutions will also provide Federated Investors with an investment book of record (IBOR) across asset...
ESMA Consultative Working Group Expected to Influence Outstanding MiFID II and MifIR Issues
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) call for market data experts to join its consultative working group (CWG) closes in less than two weeks time, with those selected to join the group expected to have considerable influence on regulatory market data issues during their two-year term. While ESMA is unlikely to disclose information about...
Investment Data Utility Plans Pilot of its Data Quality Benchmark Service
The Investment Data Utility is planning a pilot of its peer review service that allows investment managers to benchmark the quality of their reference data, improve data input to business applications and reduce operational errors. While the utility initially supports investment reference data, particularly around securities and issuers, the company’s longer term plan is to...