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Fenergo Eyes Asset Managers with Buy-Side Push for Client Lifecycle Management
Client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions provider Fenergo is taking an ambitious jump into asset management with the launch of a strategic new buy-side division. Headed up by Kevin O’Neill, formerly the head of the US asset manager segment for the Royal Bank of Canada’s Investor & Treasury Services, the new team will focus on leveraging…
IBM Watson Financial Services: Focus on the First Line of Defence
Banks are spending too much money trying to comply with big-ticket regulations because the tools they are using are not efficient enough. That is the view of IBM Watson Financial Services, which is in the process of expanding its regtech portfolio based on AI and machine learning, and covering governance, risk and compliance (GRC), financial…
Eagle Investment Systems Delivers Open Platform, New Datasets and More Cloud Options
Eagle Investment Systems is responding to financial institutions’ digital transformation programmes with a componentised platform, agile data management solutions, additional cloud options, and a revolution in the release of software updates. To find out more about the company’s plans, we talked to Eagle CEO Mal Cullen about market development, client desires and the drive towards…
Stephan Wolf Discusses this Week’s MiFID II LEI Mandate and Emerging Digital Certificates
The MiFID II mandate requiring the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) to identify parties to financial transactions came into play on Monday, causing barely a ripple in trading markets, but still posing problems in terms of lapsed LEIs – a problem that Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF), suggests could be…
DSB Issues Final Consultation Paper on User Fees and Contracts
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), which is responsible for issuing ISINs for OTC derivatives under MiFID II, has released a second and final consultation paper regarding user fees and contracts for 2019. Industry feedback is invited on topics including potential changes to user support services, service level agreements and resiliency after some proposals in the first…
StatPro Adds Regulatory Risk Service Through Acquisition of ODDO BHF
StatPro has acquired the regulatory risk services bureau of ODDO BHF, which provides a managed service for regulatory risk reporting that will be integrated with the company’s Revolution portfolio analytics platform. The deal was made for an undisclosed sum in cash and adds 10 clients to StatPro’s client base in Germany and Luxembourg. StatPro will…
Solving the Data Management Challenges of FRTB
Despite the compliance deadline of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation being pushed back to January 2022, the time to address the data management challenges of the regulation is now. A recent A-Team Group Webinar explored the key data challenges presented by the regulation, identified possible solutions, and discussed best practices for implementation. The…
JWG Partners with BMO on Regulatory Change Management
North American financial services provider BMO Capital Markets has partnered with multi-client regulatory platform JWG to access the firm’s AI-powered, natural-language processing change management system, RegDelta. The system aims to reinvent the global postal system for managing change, through curating holistic data set, enriching it via sophisticated data science, and providing SaaA technology to the…
Money.Net Joins OpenFin ecosystem
Money.Net, a web-based platform for financial data, news and analysis, has selected OpenFin technology to deploy and deliver its software to global financial institutions. The company has also become a member of the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a non-profit foundation promoting open innovation in financial services, and OpenFin’s Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium…
Act Now to Be Ready for Fundamental New Capital Rules
By Tim Lind, Managing Director at DTCC Data Services A decade on since the global financial crisis, large swathes of financial regulation aimed at addressing the weaknesses exposed during that time have come into force. Among many lessons learned in terms of market risk, there were two specific gaps that regulators wanted to address: ensure…