BNP Paribas Selects Fenergo for Compliance and Optimum Customer Experience
BNP Paribas has selected Fenergo’s client lifecycle management (CLM) solution as part of a global transformation project that aims to deliver a single view of clients across all jurisdictions and enable the bank to comply efficiently with local and global regulatory rules, and deliver optimum customer experience. Bernard Gavgani, global head of CIB IT and...
Marlin Puts Asset Control on the Block with £100 million Price Tag
Asset Control is up for sale, with owner Marlin Equity Partners looking to sell to another private equity or venture capital company, according to individuals familiar with the proposed transaction. The asking price? An astonishing eight times EBITDA, or about £100 million, according to these individuals. Marlin is believed to have paid less than £20...
After the Flood: GDPR and the Need for Digital Governance
By Rafael Bloom, director at change management consultancy Salvatore Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are landmark pieces of legislation in their own right – but there is one overarching phenomenon that explains the need for these and other such regulations that are springing up across industry...
Opus and Fenergo Team Up To Minimise Risks of KYC and AML
Opus and Fenergo have teamed up to provide an end-to-end Know Your Customer (KYC) system for running anti-money laundering (AML) checks on new clients. Under the partnership, Opus will feed external data – including sanctions lists, business news, market research, and economic and shareholder information – into Fenergo’s risk scoring and client lifecycle management (CLM)...
SIX Plans Restructure Under Newly Appointed CEO
SIX is planning a series of strategic changes aimed at strengthening its competitiveness and that of the Swiss banks that own the company. Among the changes, the group will consolidate its market position in the data business, in particular in international reference data. In the securities business, it will merge its exchange trading and post-trading...
Asset Control Integrates DataStax Enterprise to Power Market Data Platform
Asset Control has teamed up with DataStax to deliver a cloud based, NoSQL market and reference data platform. The platform is powered by DataStax Enterprise, integrated with Asset Control’s AC Plus enterprise data management (EDM) solution, and addresses issues around data volume, speed and access. Asset Control considered a number of technologies to support a...
Finastra Wins Investment Platform Deal with KAMCO
Financial systems provider Finastra has been chosen ahead of five competitors to provide Kuwait-based investment company KAMCO with a single software platform that will integrate all the company’s asset management operations. Finastra’s Fusion Invest product will support KAMCO as it aims to scale up its business, extend asset class coverage and expand the range of...
Regulation Driving Technological Evolution of Financial Industry
By: David Pagliaro, EMEA head of State Street Global Exchange Our CEO once commented: “Over our long history, periods of significant regulatory change have provided the greatest opportunities.” This couldn’t be more true today. Since the global financial crisis, a plethora of regulation has been introduced and enforced. While the pace of new regulatory initiatives...
TP ICAP Names Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services
Interdealer broker TP ICAP has named Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services, the company’s data and analytics division. Sinclair will replace Frank Desmond who is leaving the company after 12 years of service. Sinclair will join TP ICAP on November 13, 2017, moving on from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX) where he spent 14...
Sponsored Blog: Curium Data Systems’ Adam Saunders Discusses the Release of CuriumEDM
This week, Curium Data Systems launches CuriumEDM (Enterprise Data Management). Data Management Review (DMR) interviews Adam Saunders, Director of Curium Data Systems about the new platform. DMR: Why did you decide to build out the enterprise data management capability on top of the existing data quality management and business intelligence modules? Adam Saunders: We always...