Reuters has entered a deal to make its corporate actions data, from the DataScope Pricing & Reference Data service, available via Xcitek’s XSP. This data is now available from Reuters in the ISO 15022 format. According to Caroline O’Shaughnessy, head of third party alliances for Reuters DataScope, Reuters “has made a priority of, and is making a significant ongoing investment in, corporate actions data…”
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...
For more than a decade, financial institutions have been told to go digital. Data strategies have been written, platforms migrated to the cloud, and front-end experiences wrapped in slick apps. But for Niamh Kingsley, founder of ace, that conversation is already out of date. Her new firm, launched in November as a specialist post-digital advisory...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
Increasing volumes and the complexity of reference data in the post-crisis environment have left the middle office struggling to meet the requirements of the current market order. Middle office functions must therefore be robust enough to be able to deal with the spectre of globalisation, an increase in the use of esoteric security types and...
