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FactSet Details Plans to Further Extend its Open:FactSet Marketplace through 2019
FactSet is cracking on with its Open:FactSet Marketplace, most recently adding investment signal data from IHS Markit and solutions to complement the datasets on the platform. Through 2019, the company plans to add ‘any high-quality dataset relevant to the financial community’, including core data from large data vendors, as well as more alternative datasets from…
MiFID II: A Long Way from Happy Ever After…
It is over a year since MiFID II was finally implemented on January 3, 2018 and in the mad dash to meet the regulatory deadline, many firms adopted immediate measures and mandatory shortcuts to meet the new research rules, that are now emerging as less than sustainable over the long-term. Fast forward 13 months, and…
Capgemini Marches on with IDMS Reference Data Utility Despite Talk of Pullback
Whatever happened to the Capgemini (nee iGate) Integrated Data Management Services (IDMS) utility? With little or no market visibility in the past 12-18 months, many in the industry surmised that new owners Capgemini had developed cold feet in the face of slow expansion. When the utility’s sales group in London and New York was folded…
Data Management Insight – All the News, Insight and Information You Need
Welcome to Data Management Insight (DMI), a dedicated section of A-Team Group’s exciting new website that will keep you up to date with all that’s new in data management across capital markets, give you exclusive insights into hot topics, and provide you with information that will add value to your work. Over the coming weeks…
MarkLogic CTO Giles Nelson Sets the 2019 Agenda
A year on from MiFID II go live and the fall out is still being felt with investment firms adjusting to research unbundling, trading organisations struggling to achieve complete communications surveillance, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) requiring ad hoc reports. It is also time to move on, set a data first strategy, industrialise the…
Deficient Data Management Contributes to Poor Customer Experience Costing FIs $10 Billion a Year
Deficient data management lengthens client onboarding and contributes to a poor customer experience that costs financial institutions $10 billion a year and impacts the lifetime value of each client. Other headline statistics in a report from client lifecycle management specialist Fenergo show that improving data and document capture is ranked the highest critical business issue…
Arachnys Partners Oracle to Integrate Financial Crime and Compliance Solutions
Customer risk intelligence specialist Arachnys has joined the PartnerNetwork of technology giant Oracle as a platinum level member. The partnership starts with Arachnys Navigator, part of the Arachnys cloud-native customer risk intelligence (CRI) suite, as the first solution planned for integration to enhance Oracle’s financial services financial crime and compliance management (FCCM) platform. The partnership…
Opus Offers Clarity KYC to Accelerate Client Onboarding
Opus, the compliance and risk management product provider that acquired Alacra in September 2015, has introduced Clarity KYC, a Know Your Customer (KYC) workflow automation and risk intelligence solution. The solution is aimed at financial services firms and is a software-as-a service (SaaS) platform designed to reduce the time and cost of client onboarding and…
NICE Actimize Releases Next-Generation Integrated Fraud Management Platform
NICE Actimize has advanced its autonomous financial crime management strategy with the introduction of IFM-X, a next-generation integrated fraud management (IFM) platform that allows financial institutions to integrate limitless data into fraud detection systems, develop and run agile analytics, and optimise the efficiency of fraud operations. The platform uses augmented intelligence that combines machine learning…
Packaging and Deployment: There is Another Way
By: Stephen Wood, Global Head of Enterprise Deployment at OpenFin Let’s say you’re running IT for a bank. You will own software. You could build software and, of course, you’ve got a choice of software-as-a-Service (SaaS) options from third-party vendors. But those vendors have to be vetted. Do they meet your firm’s security requirements? Will…