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Lysis and iMeta Partner to Deliver Client Lifecycle Management Service for SMEs
Lysis and iMeta have teamed up to deliver a service for client lifecycle management that is designed to provide small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the financial services sector with agile, cost-effective access to client management resources rather than full-time operations. The managed service incorporates Lysis’s client onboarding and KYC expertise, and is underpinned…
The Emergence of RegTech
By: JR Lowry, EMEA head of State Street Global Exchange As 2017 unfolds, we continue to be in the midst of a period of momentous change in financial services, with the evolution of technology teetering on the edge of radically reshaping the entire industry. The period of hype surrounding the term ‘big data’ has given…
GoldenSource Solves MiFID II Problem of Requesting ISINs for OTC Derivatives
GoldenSource is developing an ISIN request and enquiry solution for OTC derivatives that is designed to help firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) meet the transaction reporting requirement to use ISINs to identify OTC derivatives. The solution also considers concerns in the market about the speed at which…
Tuning Up Symphony
The Symphony communications service, which provides a self-contained messaging protocol for financial services firms, is finding that its openness can be a double-edged sword. Intelligent Trading Technology spoke with Barry Raskin, managing director, management consulting at Jordan & Jordan, who is currently managing the implementation of Symphony for a major firm, about how Symphony’s openness…
Partnership Readies Regulatory Compliance Service For October US Launch
With their partnership begun in January, Scandinavian based compliance solutions company TM Group, and UK-based archiving provider Arkivum, have put their capabilities together for an end-to-end solution that can collect customer data for regulatory compliance, communicate it within units of a firm, and, lastly, save and store the data, according to officials of both companies….
Cyoda Proposes a Paradigm Shift in Data Processing Technology
Cyoda has set out to cut the complexity and cost of data processing and reporting with a distributed and limitlessly scalable straight-through-processing platform that delivers fast, accurate and tracked data for business use cases including regulatory reporting and internal reporting across large volumes of disparate data. The platform challenges traditional relational database management systems and…
IHS Markit Platform Promises Compliance Cost Savings
Information and analytics solutions provider IHS Markit has begun its rollout of Outreach360, a platform for managing documentation and communication concerning regulatory compliance, according to company officials. The platform will reduce compliance costs and standardize communication with contacts about compliance, says Darren Thomas, managing director and head of the Counterparty Manager service containing the Outreach360…
Challenging the Cost and Complexity of Corporate Actions Data Management
Corporate actions data management can be costly, complex and time consuming, but there are approaches and solutions in the market that can ease these problems and support more streamlined operations for the benefit of the business. A recent A-Team Group webinar tracked the progress of corporate actions automation, standards development and ongoing change, and concluded…
MiFID II Review Shows Slow Progress and Ongoing Reporting Challenges
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just six months away, we called on some industry experts to share their views on how implementation is going, the toughest challenges of the regulation, and which workflows need to be prioritised to hit the 3 January 2018 deadline date. Among the…
General Data Protection Regulation – The Time to Implement is Now
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is broad, rigorous and challenging – and its compliance deadline is just 12 months away. So, how are organisations responding to the regulation, what progress are they making on implementation and what steps can they take to ensure compliance within the 12-month timeframe. These questions and more were answered in…