Exchange Data International (EDI) has expanded the Middle Eastern coverage of its Worldwide Corporate Actions (WCA) and Worldwide Dividends feeds. The new service includes additional Arabic language translation capabilities as well as data from three additional Middle East stock exchanges and local data providers. Exchange information from the Algerian, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) stock exchanges is now available on the EDI service.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
By David Sewell, Chief Technology Officer, Synechron. The fraud transaction takes milliseconds to clear. In that window, an agentic system has already queried three databases, cross-referenced two watchlists, and pinged the identity verification layer. It works – in the demo. Then the auditor asks where the decision log is, and nobody can find it, because...
Now in its 9th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
Six months after Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) went live, how compliant is your organisation? If you took a tactical approach to cross the compliance line on January 3, 2018, how are you reviewing and renewing systems to take a more strategic approach and what are the business benefits of doing so?...
