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Refinitiv Adds Regulatory Reporting Solutions to Verified Entity Data as a Service
Refinitiv continues to build out the Verified Entity Data as a Service (VEDaaS) technology it acquired with Avox back in March 2017 with the addition of modular, enhanced data services supporting the entity data requirements of regulatory reporting. The company has released modules for FCA transaction reporting, European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), Dodd-Frank, AnaCredit, and…
ASG Develops Mobius Content Services to Meet Regulatory and Business Needs
ASG Technologies is developing its Mobius content services to help market participants comply with increasing regulation around personal data, and gain a clear overview of all their customer information and how it flows across the organisation. Mobius captures and manages content throughout its lifecycle, executes workflows, and governs information across federated repositories for a single…
Comments on the FSB’s Recent Report on the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Initiative
By: Allan D. Grody, President, Financial InterGroup. It is over a decade since the CFTC and SEC, along with the newly organized US Treasury’s Office of Financial Research, called for a legal entity identifier (LEI) for all those financial market participants involved in the newly regulated OTC derivatives markets. The US regulators’ interest in the…
Would ICE Really Buy Bloomberg?
By Andrew Delaney. The London Stock Exchange’s planned $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv – the former Reuters – got us thinking: who’s left of the independent market data vendors, and who would buy them? Of the major global vendors that have dominated the space over the past decade or so, only one independent remains. With…
Kingland Increases Accuracy of Text Analytics for Unstructured Data
Kingland continues to push the technology envelope with enhancements to its Text Analytics Platform Suite, which we touched on in last week’s catch up on the company with president Tony Brownlee. The enhanced solution includes new administration menu options with deeper analysis and metrics for unstructured data sources and events, and improvements to Named Entity…
Bloomberg Acquires RegTek.Solutions Amid Growing Demand for Reporting Integration
Last week Bloomberg announced the acquisition of RegTek.Solutions, a 2017 software spin-out from capital markets consulting firm Risk Focus. The move marks a renewed focus from Bloomberg on the regulatory reporting space, amid growing demand from financial institutions for more strategic, harmonised solutions to help meet today’s increasingly rigorous compliance challenges. Financial institutions are facing…
DSB Industry Consultation Calls for Improved Data Quality and Cybersecurity
Following our recent report on the results of the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) first 2019 industry consultation the Bureau has today released the results of its second 2019 industry consultation. In line with the first 2019 report, the second shows ongoing industry interest in further analysis of DSB functionality with a view to the delivery…
Kingland Innovates to Meet Market Need for More Effective and Efficient Data Usage
Kingland is responding to financial institutions’ growing desire to use and manage their data to better effect and greater efficiency with the provision of solutions including artificial intelligence (AI) and text analytics. It is also focusing on firms’ ongoing challenges around core functionality such as entity data management for Know Your Customer (KYC), enterprise risk…
Active Legal Entity Identifiers Set to Top 1.5 Million by End 2019
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is forecast to pass the 1.5 million mark of active identifiers in the fourth quarter of this year, another landmark for the LEI, which has seen relatively slow adoption despite capital markets participants’ calls for data standards. The fourth quarter forecast is made in the Global LEI Foundation’s (GLEIF’s) second…
DataRobot on FactSet Adds Machine Learning into Investment Workflow
In early August, FactSet and DataRobot introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) investment workflow, DataRobot on FactSet, an automated machine learning (ML) tool that helps financial services firms – particularly those lacking significant data science teams – incorporate AI into their investment workflows. At the moment there is a shortage of data scientists within the investment…