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Predictions 2023: A Year of Evolution and Adaptation
By Ludovic Blanquet, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Xceptor. As the curtains begin to draw on 2022, financial institutions are anxiously navigating the challenges imposed by war in Ukraine, rampant inflation, and looming recessions. If it was hoped the diminishing threat of Covid would offer some respite, that hope was short-lived. However, advancements were made…
RegTech is Only as Good as the Data it Uses, Summit Told
While technology has automated regulatory compliance for financial institutions, vendors and users must vigilantly stay on top of the data behind it to adjust to changes in the laws they seek to address. New or different datasets and formats must be accommodated, and new data sources found as regulators redraw rules to protect participants in…
Microsoft and LSEG Launch 10-Year Strategic Partnership as Microsoft Takes 4% Equity Stake in LSEG
Microsoft and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) have entered into a 10-year strategic partnership, under which LSEG’s data infrastructure will be architected using the Microsoft Cloud and the two companies will jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. Microsoft has also agreed to purchase shares in LSEG that would result in Microsoft…
SFDR Ready to Take the Fizz Out of New Year For ESG Compliance Teams
New Year celebrations are unlikely to last long for Europe’s fund and asset managers; at the stroke of midnight when party poppers are pulled and prosecco corks are popped, regulations that force funds to disclose the ESG performance of their investments will suddenly become tougher. The European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) will step…
BNY Mellon and Baton Systems Collaborate to Deliver Collateral Optimisation Solution
BNY Mellon and Baton Systems, a post-trade processing provider that uses distributed ledger technology (DLT), have announced a collaboration to integrate Baton’s Core-Collateral solution into BNY Mellon’s collateral management platform. This will enable mutual clients to optimise portfolio allocations and accelerate the mobilisation of cash and securities collateral across both uncleared and cleared margin obligations…
Preparing for DORA, the Digital Operational Resilience Act
On 28th November 2022, the European Council formally adopted the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), new legislation designed to strengthen the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies and investment firms. Originally proposed in September 2020 as part of a larger European digital finance package, DORA’s recent adoption by the EC is…
How Automation is Impacting Asset Manager Workflows
Leon Brown, Account Manager at BidFX, explains why asset managers are increasingly looking at automation for enhanced productivity, as opposed to cutting headcount. Popular opinion now agrees that automation is not a nefarious ploy to reduce staff headcount, but an intelligent business decision designed to increase efficiency and enhance productivity. In the early days of sell-side…
Symphony Acquires Natural Language Processing Platform Amenity Analytics
Symphony, the market infrastructure and technology platform, has acquired natural language processing (NLP) data analytics solution vendor Amenity Analytics, for an amount estimated at tens of millions of dollars, although terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Amenity specializes in extracting and delivering actionable insights – from unstructured content types including earnings call transcripts,…
RegTech Can Help Solve ESG Data Management and Trust Challenges
As demand for data grows with the acceptance of ESG as a critical part of financial institutions’ business and regulatory activities, focus will intensify on the quality of that information. Asset managers and owners will want the cleanest, most relevant and most comprehensive datasets to identify investment opportunities and risks and to comply with the…
Arbuthnot Latham Taps Clausematch to Digitise Compliance Framework
Private bank Arbuthnot Latham is adopting Clausematch’s policy management platform to automate and streamline its compliance processes. The initiative aims to digitise Arbuthnot’s policy and compliance framework. According to Clausematch, Arbuthnot will use its proprietary policy management solution to reduce the time and risk of policy maintenance by giving compliance teams a centralised platform for…