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Infosys Partners with Avaloq on Digital Wealth Management Capabilities
Digital services giant Infosys has entered into a strategic partnership with Swiss wealth management software specialist Avaloq, to provide end-to-end (e2e) wealth management capabilities through digital platforms. As part of the agreement, Infosys will be a strategic implementation partner for Avaloq’s wealth management suite of solutions, helping clients modernize and transform their legacy systems into digital…
Cloud Data Protection Specialist Clumio Teams up with Microsoft 365
Clumio, a California-based cloud-security start-up focusing on software-as-a-service (SaaS) for enterprise backup, has added Microsoft 365 to its secure backup-as-a-service, providing organisations running Microsoft 365 with a globally consolidated data protection service as the global coronavirus pandemic sees a rapid increase in ransomware attacks and email scams. The two-year old company, which in December 2019…
Basel IV FRTB Changes Leave Financial Institutions Asking: How Do You Spell Difficult? “F-R-T-B”
By Mahim Mehra, Senior Risk Advisor, AxiomSL. With the original introduction of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) completely rewrote the rules used to determine how much capital financial institutions must hold in order to adequately capitalize their exposure to market risk. The previous FRTB changes…
GLEIF and Evernym Partner on Game-changing ‘Organization Wallets’
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and self-sovereign identity specialist Evernym this month piloted a new solution allowing organizations to create and manage ‘organization wallets’ containing digital portable credentials to confirm an organization’s identity and verify the authority of employees and other company representatives. ‘Self-sovereign’ means that the individual identity holder controls their credentials, using them whenever and…
FMSB Urges Strengthening of Data Standards to Balance Tech Evolution
The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) in its latest Spotlight Review warns that if markets are to remain stable and trusted, fair and effective, then the rapid growth of new technology and of data science must be balanced with more effective governance and control. The report, which examines the crucial role of data management in…
How a Great Private Bank Can Be Greater Still with the Right CRM
By Alessandro Tonchia, Co-Founder and Head of Strategy at Finantix The best relationship managers are proactive with their clients. Not only do they know the client history and have to hand everything a client asks for or currently requires, they also anticipate requests, and can even point their clients to interesting, relevant information that might…
New Managed Data Service from Bloomberg Opens up Enterprise-Wide Access
Bloomberg has launched a new managed service, Data License Plus (DL+), to aggregate a client’s Bloomberg data into a single dataset, enabling users to explore and interact with it through a web-based user interface. The new service aims to make DL data easier to access throughout the enterprise, while reducing the need for data processing….
Ones and Zeros: How Asset Managers Can be Digital Transformation Heroes
By Phil Davies, CTO of Milestone Group. The pace of digital transformation in asset management has been referred to as glacial. However, this new decade comes at an inflection point – over the past couple of years, the discussion has picked up considerably with firms finally embracing the digital ecosystem. People have built up both confidence…
Covid-19: The Importance of a Centralised Book of Records for Accurate Stress-Testing
By Joseph Cordahi, Product Strategy Director at NeoXam. Stress-testing has become a common tool of regulators and central banks to assess the readiness of banks to deal with sudden volatility in global markets. With Wall Street suffering its worst day since the 1980’s in March, and Covid-driven volatility set to grip the global economy for…
Arria NLG Collaborates with BNY Mellon on Natural Language Technology
Arria NLG, a New York-based provider of Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology, has entered into a collaboration with BNY Mellon to help asset managers and asset owners transform their data into actionable analytics. Arria’s NLG capability, a form of artificial intelligence, is based on advanced computational linguistics and algorithms, which can automatically and instantly turn…