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Data Paints a Picture for Today’s Investors
By Stephanie Farrell, Head of Integrated Trading Solutions, Americas, Northern Trust Capital Markets. It’s no secret that data management presents many hurdles for institutional investors. It can be difficult and time-consuming for asset managers to sift through the high volume of data needed to make decisions. This can create barriers to a well-functioning operating model,…
TMX Group Agrees to Acquire Wall Street Horizon
TMX Group, the Toronto-based market operator and data and an analytics provider, has agreed to acquire Boston-based Wall Street Horizon (WSH), a corporate event data provider. The acquisition will extend the global reach of TMX Datalinx’s listed company corporate action and event data offering. “We’ve done well with the distribution of our core content, and…
LightPoint Launches LightPoint 360 ‘Hedge Fund in a Box’ Solution
LightPoint Financial Technology, the SaaS-based trading solutions provider, has launched LightPoint 360, a new all-in-one solution that targets new launch hedge funds, combining LightPoint’s existing SaaS-based trading, order management, portfolio management, and accounting product with Microsoft 365. The new ‘hedge fund in a box’ offering also comes with a comprehensive set of outsourced operational and…
Liquidnet Electronifies Bond Issuance Workflow with Live Deals
Liquidnet, the agency execution specialist, has achieved the next stage of its electronification of the new bond issuance process, by successfully transmitting live buy-side orders in from Order and Execution Management Systems to participating syndicate banks. The electronic workflow follows the initial testing that Liquidnet Primary Markets conducted earlier this year in collaboration with Invesco…
GLEIF Extends LEI Validation Agent Scheme with Sparkasse Bank Malta and Diligencia
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has added two validation agents to the Global Legal Entity Identifier System, bringing the global total of agents able to provide their clients with LEIs to 10. The additions are Sparkasse Bank Malta, a European bank offering corporate and private banking, investment, and custody services; and Diligencia, a…
BNP Paribas First with Successful Test of ISDA’s Digital Reporting Facility for Swaps
BNP Paribas has successfully tested and implemented the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s (ISDA) Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR) initiative for swaps under the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) amended reporting rules. The successful test marks the first time ISDA’s DRR has been deployed in a real-world environment, with a successful submission of data to…
KYC Hub Launches OpsFlow for Automated Client Onboarding
Due diligence and compliance automation specialist KYC Hub has released a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) based platform to streamline client onboarding across a wide range of industries including financial services. OpsFlow aims to reduce complexity in the onboarding process by offering access to hundreds of global verification types through a single solution, allowing workflow and…
Bloomberg Applies New Industry-Implied Estimate Model to Expand Emissions Coverage
Bloomberg has expanded its coverage of corporate carbon emissions using a new estimates model that is providing greenhouse gas datasets on about 40,000 more companies. The US data giant said carbon emission estimates would now be offered on 100,000 companies, providing transparency into their Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. Bloomberg said the broader coverage…
Refinitiv Releases Low-Code/No-Code Solution for Digital Customer Onboarding
Refinitiv, an LSEG business, has introduced a secure and personalised digital customer onboarding solution that enables financial firms to verify an individual’s identity information and documents in real time, conduct remote biometric checks, and cross reference a series of disparate data sets, such as residential addresses and sanction lists, to verify bank accounts. The onboarding…
IEX Group Launches cloudSwXtch, Bringing Multicast to Cloud Networks
IEX Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary swXtch.io LLC, has announced the commercial launch of cloudSwXtch, a cloud-native software product that aims to bring bare-metal performance capability to the major cloud networks. cloudSwXtch is a virtual overlay network that adds high-performance networking to cloud or edge deployments with no code changes to existing applications. The product…