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China Merchants Bank Selects Appway for Onboarding and KYC Compliance Checks
China Merchants Bank – Singapore branch (CMB SG) has selected Appway to provide client lifecycle management solutions and domain expertise to accelerate the branch’s compliance agility and efficiencies. Appway’s Singapore office will lead the implementation of its Onboarding for Wealth and KYC Review solutions, as well as its Digital Binder product for front to back…
Derivatives Service Bureau Sets Timeline for Consultation on OTC ISIN and CFI Services in 2022
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published the timeline for its 2021 industry consultation on 2022 OTC ISIN and CFI service provision. Core themes focus on providing updates for service enhancements sought last year, as well as risk analysis relating to the DSB’s cybersecurity and cloud resilience. The OTC ISIN and CFI consultation will operate…
Harbr Data Exchange Democratises Internal Data, Provides Collaboration for Data Product Creation
Harbr is taking a new approach to data value with an enterprise data exchange that can be used to democratise internal data, enrich a data ecosystem by adding external data, or monetise data by building a marketplace that provides insight into numerous data products. The London-based company was founded in 2017 to address the problem…
Canoe Intelligence Expands into EMEA with Alternative Investment Solutions
New York-based Canoe Intelligence has fulfilled its ambition to expand into EMEA with an office in London and the appointment of Toby Bailey as vice president of sales in the region. The data ops vendor that uses AI to automate the digitisation of unstructured PDF reporting documents and provide actional data for institutional investors, allocators…
Quantexa Innovates AML Monitoring with Contextual Decision Intelligence
Quantexa, a London-based data and analytics company, is innovating Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring and investigation with the use of contextual decision intelligence (CDI), a means of enriching internal data with external data and building networks of relationships to create a contextual view of a customer. The company says complex financial crime in capital markets, including…
Post-Brexit UK Sanctions Regime Adds Complexity as Firms Wrestle with Global Compliance
The post-Brexit UK sanctions regime has added complexity to firms’ efforts to comply with international sanctions regimes, in some cases changing their appetite for risk, according to a recent A-Team webinar on the topic. And although much of the UK regime has been transposed from EU regulation, small but significant changes are adding to the…
Brian Sentance Named Head of EMEA at Data Quality Management Platform Provider Datasynthesis
Brian Sentance, former CEO of Xenomorph, is back in the data management business as head of EMEA for Datasynthesis, provider of a cloud-native data quality management platform that synchronises data governance, integration and quality to transform data policy into data operations. Sentance joins the New-York based leadership team of Datasynthesis, CEO Christian Robertson, and chief…
Element22 Teams with DLT Provider Agility Sciences for Real-Time ESG Data
Timed to coincide with the March 10 initial implementation of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), data consultancy Element22 and distributed ledger developer Agility Sciences have teamed up to launch ESGi, which aims to offer buy-side firms access to ESG data in real time. ESGi has been designed to address issues relating to ESG…
ESGi – an Element22 and Agility Sciences Solution – Offers Buy-Side Firms Trusted ESG Data Updated in Real Time
Data consultancy Element22 and distributed ledger developer Agility Sciences have released ESGi, an innovative solution designed to solve problems of ESG data, such as time lags and accuracy, and provide buy-side firms with trusted data in real time. The release coincides with the first deadline of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which comes…
FundGuard Plans Product Development to Drive Transparency in Fund Administration
New York-based FundGuard, a pioneer of AI in investment management and asset services, has completed a $12 million Series A funding round. The company will use the funding for product development to meet increased regulatory demands for transparency and resilience in the fund administration segment. The company works with several of the world’s largest fund…