DST International (DSTi) has appointed Ian Hunt as head of global product strategy. Hunt will assume responsibility for DSTi’s entire range of products and will direct future functionality plans, including the R&D priorities. Hunt will also be responsible for identifying potential acquisition targets if he decides there is a need to buy in products, modules, services or expertise to complement the existing DSTi range.
MiFID II’s “No LEI, No Trade” requirement mandates all entities trading with European counterparties across all asset classes need to obtain legal entity identifiers (LEIs). This represents a major shift in the way LEIs are used for regulatory reporting and firms that are affected by MiFID II should obtain the relevant LEIs sooner rather than...
By Andrew Delaney, President, A-Team Group. We hear it time and time again – at our conferences, on our roundtables and from our advisory boards: our beloved financial data and technology industry is suffering from an acute skills shortage. Flip to the other side of the coin, and employers and parents alike fret about the...
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Client onboarding is central to the success of banks, yet it continues to present challenges and the benefits of getting it right are difficult to achieve. The challenges arise from siloed systems, manual processes and poor entity data quality. The potential benefits of successful implementation include excellent client experience, improved client acquisition and loyalty, new business opportunities, reductions in costs, competitive advantage, and confidence in compliance.