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Concern Remains as Delay, Revision and Data Hang Over FRTB
The proposed Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) was formulated to protect banks against a repeat of the devastation caused to the sector during the 2008 financial crisis. Initially suggested in 2012, it was drawn up in 2016 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), and revised in 2019 with a view to…
Video: Kaiko Discusses Digital Assets Trading Infrastructure
In this video, Bediss Cherif, Head of Product at Kaiko, a provider of digital assets market data for institutions, outlines the infrastructure needed to underpin successful digital asset trading. He also tells us why he’s looking forward to speaking at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit London on 22 February. ? You can find out more about…
Broadridge Bets Dashboard Will Bring Clarity to Ratings Confusion
The ESG assessment space has occasionally been referred to as the Wild West of finance for the rapidity and seemingly uncoordinated nature of its growth. Rating and scoring services have come under particular scrutiny because of the widely different results each offers for the same entity. Regulators, particularly in the European Union and the United…
Asset Managers Are Rising to the ESG Disclosure Challenge
Asset managers are playing a more prominent role in developing the ESG data sourcing and reporting space, even as regulations make it more difficult for them to honour their own disclosure obligations. With responsibility for the careful investment of trillions of dollars of capital, managers are becoming proactive in seeking data from corporates and identifying…
Liquidnet Links Portfolio Managers Directly with Syndicate Banks for New Bond Issuance
Agency broker Liquidnet has introduced new functionality for new issue bonds, which enables investment firms to communicate with syndicate banks directly from their Order/Execution Management Systems (O/EMS) as part of the book build process, before the bond is priced and allocated. The new feature, which builds on the Liquidnet Primary Markets functionality the company launched…
APG Asset Management to Deploy IHS Markit’s ThinkFolio on AWS for Global Multi-Asset Portfolio
Dutch pension provider APG Asset Management, the largest pension provider in the Netherlands with €633 billion in assets under management, plans to transform front-office operations for its multi-asset portfolio globally using IHS Markit’s thinkFolio investment management and trading system. Under the arrangement, IHS Markit will deploy and manage the infrastructure, as well as the thinkFolio…
Similarweb Digital Intelligence Gives Funds Insight into Company Performance and Market Trends
Similarweb, a Tel Aviv, Israel headquartered provider of digital intelligence for hedge funds and investment banks is building its brand in Europe on the back of success in the US where its alternative dataset is used by hundreds of fund managers including most of the big names, and investment banks including JP Morgan and Citi…
GLEIF Publishes vLEI Governance Framework to Support Digital Identities for All Legal Entities
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published its planned verifiable LEI (vLEI) Ecosystem Governance Framework and is working with capital markets regulators on how the vLEI could be a means of securing filings and reports. It has also presented the framework for review by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI, which…
Getting Real About Perpetual KYC
Perpetual KYC, or pKYC, has the potential to revolutionise financial crime compliance. But practitioners and vendors need to be realistic about what can be achieved. It is easy to see why financial institutions are enthusiastic about pKYC. A new report by PwC suggests banks can reduce their KYC costs by up to 80% across the…
The Eight Best Data Lineage Providers in 2022
Data lineage traces data from source to destination, noting every move the data makes and taking into account any changes to the data during its journey for full traceability. It is critical to regulatory compliance and data governance, and offers numerous business and operational benefits. The level of granularity and scope of the audit trail…