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RegTech Summit Calls for Collaboration Between Vendors, Users and Regulators
A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit returned to London last week with an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, lively panel discussions and an innovative regtech showcase featuring four newcomers to the market. The event also hosted numerous sponsors exhibiting leading regtech solutions and was joined by over 200 capital markets participants keen to further their knowledge of,…
Stakeholders Must Work Together to Create a RegTech Ecosystem to Support Innovation
Stephane Malrait, Managing Director of Market Structure and Innovation in Financial Markets at ING, urged the industry to join forces to support growth, development and innovation and overcome the high barriers to adoption for regulatory technology solutions in his keynote speech at the opening of A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit at the Tower Hotel in London…
The Evolution of the Multi-Asset Class Trading Desk
By John Greenan, CEO, Alignment Systems Over the past 30 years, the buy-side trading desk has undergone a fundamental transformation, specifically in two linked areas: automation of high-touch and low-touch trading, and the rise of multi-asset class trading. Alignment Systems worked with FactSet to document this transformation with an eye on understanding where the industry…
IPC and RANsquawk Collaborate on Real-Time Audio and Text News Feed
Communications and network solutions provider IPC is collaborating with RANsquawk, a supplier of market information, to offer a real-time audio and text news feed to users of IPC’s Unigy 360 cloud-based software-as-a-service communications and workflow solution. The aim of the collaboration is to help traders using Unigy 360 make better decisions. Users can consume RANsquawk’s…
Blackstone Closes Deal to Take 55% Stake in Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Business
Nearly nine months after Thomson Reuters signed a definitive agreement with Blackstone that would give the private equity firm a 55% stake and Thomson Reuters a 45% stake in the company’s financial and risk business, the deal is closed and the business rebranded as Refinitiv. With backing from Blackstone, Refinitiv plans to invest in a…
Gibraltar Stock Exchange’s Targ Patience Discusses the Role of Regtech in Fighting Financial Crime
Fighting financial crime is imperative and is best achieved by having impenetrable client onboarding, anti-money laundering (AML) and Know your Customer (KYC) processes in place. At some firms, first generation systems are struggling to cope with the volume of data that needs to be processed quickly and efficiently to ensure accurate entity data and effective…
Meet the Speakers: Stephane Malrait Presents Opening Keynote at A-Team Group RegTech Summit
A-Team Group’s second annual RegTech Summit will be hosted in London next week, but before the industry converges at the Guoman Tower Hotel for the event on October 4,we would like to introduce you to Stephane Malrait, global head of market structure and innovation in financial markets at ING. Malrait will present the summit’s opening keynote discussing…
BSO and Hoptroff Develop Time-as-a-Service Solution to Support Regulatory Compliance
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Global network provider BSO and time synchronisation specialist Hoptroff London have partnered to create a fully traceable and accurate Time-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution. Hoptroff’s Global Timing Network and AI driven Time-Suite software will be combined with BSO’s global low-latency network to offer a time synchronisation tool that gives firms a timestamp…
How to Get Data Lineage Right for Regulatory Compliance and Business Value
Data lineage is critical to getting regulatory compliance right and key to data transparency and ownership for the business. It is also a game changer when it comes to data quality. But how can you implement a successful data lineage programme that will deliver these rewards on an ongoing and cost-effective basis? This question and…
Making the Most of Data Monetisation
Is your firm working on data monetisation or planning to do so? If not, it probably should be as monetisation has become key to revenue growth at many financial institutions. But how can you get it right and achieve competitive advantage, and what impact will General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have on progress? To discover…