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A-Team Group Names Winners of Inaugural RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s inaugural RegTech Insight Awards – APAC 2022. The awards were presented by Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer at A-Team Group during a drinks reception following A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit APAC in Singapore on 29 November 2022. The RegTech Insight Awards recognise both established solution providers and…
Alveo expands data partnership with SIX
Alveo, a cloud-based market data integration, analytics and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions provider, has expanded its global data coverage and feed integrations with the addition of new content from SIX, including sentiment indicators, tax, and regulatory risk data. SIX data sets covering global security master and historical pricing data are already available to users of Alveo’s…
Back to Front: How Back-Office Data Provides Invaluable Front-Office Insights
By Tim Lind, Managing Director, DTCC Data Services. The capital markets industry has invested billions of dollars to automate back-office processes from trade confirmation all the way through clearing and settlement. The automation business case has typically been based on headcount savings and operational efficiencies, such as scaling operations for higher volumes, effective exception management,…
Could do Better: Year-End ESG Data Reports Offer Mixed Picture
The growing importance of ESG to the financial system was reflected this year in a greater push among investors and asset managers to address challenges in the data and reporting environment. Several end-of-year snapshots of the ESG sector paint a picture of greater engagement by the financial community in the sources and quality of the…
Clamour for ESG Data Makes Good Management Crucial
ESG data is now core to banks’ and financial institutions’ operations, their compliance and risk processes and the products they offer investors. For that reason, it’s crucial that this data be managed properly and treated in the same way as other datasets. Without good data management, banks can be left commercially and legally exposed, vulnerable…
GLEIF and Swift Reduce Cost of Reconciling Counterparty Data with Certified Mapping of MIC to LEI
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has expanded its collaboration with Swift by providing certification for the mapping of Swift’s Market Identifier Code (MIC) to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). The resulting open source file will enable market participants that use GLEIF and/or Swift data to link and cross-reference key entity identifiers free of…
NeoXam Plans Growth and Global Expansion on Brink of €100 Million Investment
Asset management software provider NeoXam is on the brink of raising more than €100 million from French investment company Eurazeo. If the agreed investment is secured, Eurazeo’s small-mid buyout team will take a majority shareholding in NeoXam, with other investors including the company’s founder Serge Delpla and its management team led by Florent Fabre. Previous…
FINRA Outlines Perspective on RegTech
RegTech innovation is commendable, but must be accompanied by risk mitigation, seen as a means to an end rather than an end in itself, and selected for use by a cross-section of an organisation that is inclusive of, but not limited to, IT and compliance. Opening A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit New York with a keynote…
InstrumentiX and FMADIO Launch 100G Combined Capture and Analytics Platform
InstrumentiX, the performance monitoring and analytics solutions provider, and FMADIO, the packet capture appliance vendor, have together released a new 100G capture and analytics platform, the x-100. The x-100 was developed in response to the exponential increase in trading-related data volumes in recent years, which has driven a demand for high-performance capture and analytics to…
Sell-Side Firms Help Buy-Side Clients Meet Reporting Obligations with DTCC Report Hub
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released Report Hub, an assisted reporting model designed to allow sell-side firms to help buy-side clients with regulatory reporting mandates across 14 jurisdictions. Sell-side firms including prime brokers and clearing brokers can use Report Hub to provide required counterparty trade data to buy-side clients that also use…