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Bloomberg to Quit KYC Business
Bloomberg is planning to exit the Know Your Customer (KYC) market and withdraw its Entity Exchange KYC and client onboarding solution, as well as its Entity Intelligence screening service. The company has declined to discuss its reasons for quitting KYC and exactly when it will do so, but in a highly competitive market it seems…
Global Data Standards are Essential Yet Elusive, So How Can Our Industry Help?
Global data standards and identifiers are essential to business growth, market stability and cost reduction. They are also challenging to implement in a technology environment characterised by data silos and at a time when standards differ across multiple jurisdictions and can lack clarity and specificity. Featured Download: An update on data standards and global identifiers…
Addressing the Challenges and Realising the Benefits of a ‘Cloud First’ Policy
By Andy Mather, European Financial Services Industry Specialist, Telstra. The move to a ‘cloud first’ policy by financial firms is a tantalising idea. After all, which chief technology officer wouldn’t want to seriously reduce their company’s on-premise compute and storage costs, while at the same time boosting agility and ability to profit from new, innovative,…
Asset Control Puts AC PaSS Managed Services Solution in Oracle Cloud Marketplace
Asset Control has made its managed services solution, AC Platform as a Scalable Service (AC PaSS), available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace having achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud status. The company confirmed its commitment to offer managed services earlier this year and is offering AC PaSS as a means for financial services organisations to achieve cost…
A Guide to Getting Data Management Right on the Buy-Side
Buy-side firms have developed data management capabilities exponentially over recent years, driven by regulatory requirements, but continually challenged by pressure on budgets, selecting suitable solutions, and sourcing and maintaining good quality data. Naomi Clarke, chief data officer at MSAmlin, and a speaker on a recent A-Team Group webinar sponsored by the SmartStream Reference Data Utility…
Excel in Data Management – Why it Still Has a Role to Play
By: Martijn Groot, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Asset Control. In the world of technology infrastructure, Microsoft Excel is often seen as both a blessing and a curse. That its usage remains so widespread today is testament to the power of the tool, as well as the quality of the marketing and distribution that…
Data Governance a Top 2019 Priority, Says Syncsort
According to a new survey from Syncsort, a US-based provider of Big Iron (aka mainframes) to Big Data software, many firms are still struggling to make data accessible and get value from it, with 68% of respondents reporting that siloed data negatively impacts their organization. The 2019 Data Trends survey found that most IT departments…
RapidLEI Reports Robust Q1 Results, Plans New Partnerships
RapidLEI from Ubisecure, the GLEIF accredited Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) issuer specialising in the automation of the LEI provision process, has reported an LEI growth rate exceeding 135% for the first quarter of 2019. The issuance data, as published by the GLEIF, represents a strong beginning to 2019 for the firm; as well as a…
VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE: Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) – The when, the why and the how…?
With implementation just around the corner, FRTB should be at the top of every bank’s agenda. In advance of A-Team Group’s hotly anticipated Breakfast Briefing on May 14, we gathered together a group of experts to discuss the essential issues and top priorities that firms should be focusing on in the run-up to D-Day… One…
Limited In-House Skills Drive Financial Services Firms to Focus on Outsourcing
Financial services firms continue to play into the move to outsource technology services, citing their reasons as a preference to use qualified experts with industry knowledge, limited skills in the market, and cost efficiency. According to research commissioned by Asset Control, 49% of senior decision makers in financial services organisations listed ‘we prefer to use…