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Novatus Gets £4 Million Investment from Maven Capital Partners
Novatus Advisory, whose RegTech division provides tools for regulatory reporting, has received a £4 million investment from Maven Capital Partners, a venture capital company. The company plans to use the funds to expand its team of technical advisors and boost its sales and marketing resources. London-based Novatus provides specialised advice to financial services firms to…
ID-Pal Secures €7 Million in Series A funding Round
Dublin-based identity verification provider ID-Pal has raised €7 million (£6 million) in a Series A funding round to fuel its expansion into international markets. ID-Pal offers global identity verification coverage of more than 6,000 identity documents and 200 verified address data sources to enterprise clients and SMEs across 200 countries and jurisdictions. The funding will…
Fenergo Brings KYC Processes to the aid of ESG Reporting
Fenergo has released a software-as-a-service regulatory and risk product designed to bring smaller businesses within the reach of ESG reporting frameworks, potentially closing gaps in supply chain sustainability data. Two years in the making, the Dublin-based company’s latest product will provide its financial clients with the infrastructure to gather and compile sustainability data in a…
CDO Pioneer Peter Serenita Retires from Scotiabank After Distinguished Career in Capital Markets
Peter Serenita, a pioneer of the CDO role and a popular speaker at A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Summits, has retired after a distinguished career spanning more than 20 years in capital markets data management. In a LinkedIn post early this week, Serenita wrote: “Well, the time has come. I have officially retired. I have…
Databricks Extends Capabilities of Lakehouse Data and AI Platform
Databricks, provider of the Lakehouse data and AI platform, has extended the platform’s capabilities with the addition of advanced data warehousing and governance, data sharing innovations including an analytics marketplace and data clean rooms for data collaboration, automatic cost optimisation for ETL operations, and machine learning (ML) lifecycle improvements. The company, founded by the creators…
ING Makes Strategic Investment in OpenFin
ING Ventures, the venture capital arm of ING, has made a $10m strategic investment in OpenFin, the operating system of enterprise productivity, becoming the 7th major financial institution to not only buy OpenFin but also become a strategic partner. ING adopted OpenFin’s technology in 2021 to accelerate the bank’s desktop transformation strategy. Employees now have…
Russia Sanctions Pose Challenges for Regulated Entities
By Martin Cheek, Managing Director, SmartSearch As fears of renewed Russian offensives put Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine back on the news agenda, the sanctions against Putin and Russia which followed the war have never gone away. Before the invasion, Russia was already subject to about 2,700 sanctions. Within two weeks of the attack, that…
GoldenSource Releases Cloud Data Services Designed to Improve Data Management in Data Lakes and Warehouses
GoldenSource has made its first move since being acquired in May 2022 by Gemspring Capital with the release of cloud data services designed to help financial institutions improve data management in data lakes and warehouses. The company notes increasing use of cloud data platforms and warehouses, and the ease of data access, but also the…
Natural Language Processing, the Shift from Surveilling Traders to Supporting Them
By Oliver Rooney, VoxSmart. Natural Language Processing (NLP), although not a new concept, is increasingly being discussed within Financial Markets. Despite its tenure in everyday services such as chat boxes, Alexa and Hey Google amongst others, the way in which it is being utilised in financial markets is changing for the better with firms set…
Optimising High Performance Infrastructure for Growing Market Data Volumes
As market data volumes continue to grow, firms across the industry – both market participants and their service providers – are having to think strategically about what kind of infrastructure they need in order to accommodate this growth, particularly under peak loads, whilst optimising for high performance. Given the rising volume, what kind of decisions…