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Institutional Crypto Exchange Archax Partners Custom House for KYC, AML Checks
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Archax, an institutional-grade cryptocurrency exchange planning to launch in 2019, has tapped fund administrator Custom House Global Fund Services to conduct Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks on all future exchange participants. Custom House will ensure that all firms or professional investors wishing to join the Archax…
FactSet Expands APAC Presence with Nikko Asset Management Deal
FactSet has expanded its presence in APAC through a deal with Tokyo-based Nikko Asset Management. The deal further consolidates the company’s Asian footprint following the May 2018 opening of an office in Shanghai, which added to existing locations in Hong Kong and Sydney. Nikko Asset Management has selected the FactSet Linear Multi Asset Class risk…
Data Service Bureau Details Functional Changes – And Their Costs
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) set up to issue ISINs for OTC derivatives under MiFID II has published a report covering functional changes that will be made based on industry feedback to a second industry consultation that opened at the end of June 2018 and closed a month later. The final consultation report also notes industry interest…
ITRS Continues Infrastructure Monitoring Expansion with OP5 Purchase
ITRS Group’s acquisition of OP5, a Swedish provider of IT monitoring and log analysis technology, continues its move to shore up its trading infrastructure offering coming on the heels of a recent partnership deal with Velocimetrics and its May purchase of capacity analysis specialist Sumerian. OP5 specialises in helping firms to control and monitor their IT configurations using…
Could Privatisation Give Dun & Bradstreet the Push It Needs to Succeed?
The $6.9 billion acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) by a consortium of private equity investors led by CC Capital and Cannae Holdings, announced this week, could herald the streamlining and modernisation of the venerable 177-year-old, publicly traded credit data specialist, according to observers. Founded in 1841 as a credit information provider, the company is…
Innovation Delivers Improved Trading Performance, Lower Costs and New Opportunities
Time series databases, predictive analytics, ultra-low latency network products, sophisticated algorithms and artificial intelligence are on the wish list of many trading firms looking for innovative technologies to improve trading architecture and support high performance trading. They do, however, come with challenges, cost implications and the need for management buy-in. Speaking on a recent A-Team Group…
AxiomSL to Assist Bank of China with French AnaCredit Reporting Needs
Bank of China, which first started using AxiomSL’s regulatory capabilities back in 2015 to meet liquidity reporting requirements in Singapore, has extended its use of the platform to implement AnaCredit reporting requirements in France. AnaCredit is a project set up by the European Central Bank (ECB) to collect detailed information on individual bank loans in…
Quilter Investments Opts For Managed EDM Service From IHS Markit
Quilter Investments (formerly Old Mutual Investment Management), a London-based fund manager with over £17 billion in assets under management, has selected IHS Markit to provide it with a new Enterprise Data Management (EDM) system for security and account master management. Quiler Investments will also utilise IHS Markit’s investment management solution, thinkFolio, to distribute the data…
Kingland Cognitive Engine Turns Unstructured Data into Actionable Information
Have you ever considered how much value is tied up in unstructured data that is difficult to access? What nuggets of useful information could be buried in documents such as company reports? And how you could turn masses of unstructured data into actionable information? If the answer to these questions is yes, and it probably…
Tackling the TRIM Challenge – How Banks Can Get their Data Quality Processes up to Scratch
By Martijn Groot, Vice President of Product Management, Asset Control The Targeted Review of Internal Models (TRIM) is underway and significantly impacting banks across the eurozone. TRIM is an initiative of the European Central Bank (ECB), designed to assess whether the internal risk assessment models used by banks supervised by the ECB, comply with regulatory…