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A-Team Group Names Winners of RegTech Awards 2018
The winners of A-Team Group’s RegTech Awards 2018 have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best data management solution for regulatory compliance to best reference data for regulatory compliance, best trade repository for regulatory disclosure, best vendor solution for data governance, and best compliance as a service solution. As…
MiFID II Revisited
It is no secret that Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) remains a work in process, despite go live back in January. But what still needs to be done, how easy will it be, and how can firms work towards accruing the benefits of compliance? A recent A-Team Group webinar, MiFID II Revisited,…
Arachnys Hires Steve Mann, Robert Lloyd-Watts and Bill Bennett to Build Sales
Arachnys has made key marketing and sales appointments, naming Steve Mann as chief marketing officer, Robert Lloyd-Watts as regional sales director for EMEA and APAC, and Bill Bennett as regional sales director, North America. The company, a provider of customer risk decisioning solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Extended Due Diligence…
Conning Selects AIM Software GAIN Modules to Support Strategic Growth Plan
AIM Software is building its client base in North America with the selection of its GAIN enterprise data management (EDM) software by Conning, a global investment management firm headquartered in the region. The investment management company is implementing three GAIN modules covering security master, portfolio pricing and corporate actions as part of a drive to…
New Blood for Fenergo
Fenergo pulled off a coup today with the announcement of industry stalwart Conor Coughlan as its new Global Head of Marketing – a strategic poach from Thomson Reuters, where Coughlan has headed the marketing function for the risk division for the last two years. An award-winning B2B financial services marketer, Coughlan is a leading RegTech…
CAT Changes Could Cut Level of Client Data Collection and Shift Reporting Deadline
Changes to the controversial Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) – which will record all equities and options traded in the US – have been put forward in a bid to tackle serious concerns in the industry about the level of sensitive client data the CAT will collect. The CAT Operating Committee approved a different approach to…
Colt Partners NPL to Deliver Time Service Suited to MiFID II
Colt Technology Services is offering financial firms using its colocation services a timestamping capability that more than meets the requirements of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The company has partnered with the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to deliver precise timing capabilities to firms using its colocation services in Equinix data centres…
HPR Extends Capital Markets Infrastructure Technology into Europe
US based capital markets infrastructure technology provider Hyannis Port Research (HPR) has made its first foray into Europe with a leading global investment bank that has gone live with its Riskbot market access platform in EMEA. The platform provides trading clients with sub-microsecond direct market access to Cboe Europe, Euronext, LSE, Turquoise and Xetra. Riskbot…
Silwood Expands Series of GDPR Starter Packs for Major Application Packages
Silwood Technology, a vendor of metadata discovery software, has expanded its series of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Starter Packs for major application packages. Starter Packs for Oracle E-Business Suite and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 join existing solutions for SAP, JD Edwards and Siebel that are designed to help users quickly and simply identify the…
MiFID II Data Management: Where Are We Now?
Winston Churchill probably doesn’t spring to mind when considering Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), but his famous Battle of El Alamein description – “This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” – fits the new EU regulation…