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Meet the A-Team Series:
Andrew Delaney, CCO
Welcome to the second instalment of our Meet the A-Team series. This week, we’ll focus on our always witty capital markets guru; President and Chief Content Officer, Andrew Delaney. Andrew has been with A-Team Group “since the beginning” – 20 years ago this year. When asked how he would describe what he does here, Andrew…
Chronicle Integrates Latency-Optimised Messaging Framework with KX’s kdb+
London-based low-latency technology specialist Chronicle Software has developed an off-the-shelf integration between its Chronicle Queue messaging framework and KX’s kdb+ high-performance database in partnership with consultancy firm AquaQ. According to Chronicle CEO Peter Lawrey, over 80% of the Top 100 banks Globally use the company’s Enterprise or Open Source products. Many of these banks are…
Case Study: How Liquidnet Deployed OpenFin for Investment Analytics Unit
Desktop integration specialist OpenFin has published a case study mapping out how Liquidnet deployed its platform to develop a single application uniting three of its key data and analytics offerings. The project aimed to bring together the respective capabilities of the OTAS Technologies, Prattle and RSRCHXchange units, which Liquidnet combined into a single entity called…
Solidatus Raises £14 Million to Build Out Next-Generation Data Lineage and Metadata Management Platform
Solidatus has raised £14 million in Series A funding led by AlbionVC, the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, and also including HSBC Ventures and Citi. HSBC was an early adopter of Solidatus’ data lineage solution, and Citi the first strategic investor in the company in August 2020 following successful and ongoing implementation of…
ALTR Integrates Cloud Native Data Security as a Service with Snowflake Data Platform
ALTR, an Austin, Texas provider of data security, has released ALTR cloud integration for the Snowflake cloud data platform. The cloud native ALTR platform extends Snowflake’s built-in security with real-time data consumption governance capabilities for observing, detecting and responding to data threats and anomalies. The addition of ALTR to the Snowflake data cloud follows FactSet’s…
DSB Managing Director Emma Kalliomaki Outlines Issues in Progressing the UPI
As the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) first round of industry consultation on fee principles for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) plays out, we talked to Emma Kalliomaki, managing director of ANNA and the DSB, about some of the issues involved in getting the UPI up, running and ready for its Q3 2022 release. Early conversations…
A-Team Webinar to Address Challenges of Deploying Market Data in the Cloud
The past year has witnessed a surge in interest in co-opting cloud technologies as a sourcing, hosting and distribution mechanism for market data. Firms seeking to migrate their market data infrastructure to the cloud, however, face significant challenges, particularly in the context of real-time data for fast-moving markets. A-Team’s February 25 webinar – ‘Approaches to…
Observational Learning Boosts Data Quality, Improves Reconciliations, Cuts Costs of Exceptions
Large data volumes and manual data validation techniques are making it difficult for firms to achieve levels of data quality required to support seamless transaction processing and regulatory reporting. The problem is exacerbated by MiFID II and other emerging regulations that impose new processes on transaction reporting, including reconciliation of transactions from the trade repository…
Automated-Intelligence Launches Regulatory Risk Scoring with hivera
At the start of this month, data management specialist Automated-Intelligence (which provides data insight, risk identification and compliance reporting to financial services firms through its cloud-based solution, AI.DATALIFT), made headlines with the launch of its long-awaited new RegTech platform – allowing Chief Risk Officers and Heads of Compliance to visualise and mitigate the regulatory risk across their…
New Compliance Solution from Plenitude Seeks to Boost Financial Crime Compliance
London-based risk and compliance specialist Plenitude this week launched a new cloud-based Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) solution called Plentitude RegSight, in a bid to clarify and streamline the complex world of FCC obligations management. In a world of increasing regulation and heightened regulatory scrutiny, the requirement for organisations to meet legal and regulatory obligations has…