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VP Bank Taps AxiomSL for Multi-Jurisdictional Reporting
VP Bank, one of Liechtenstein’s largest banks, is planning to consolidate its risk and regulatory reporting using AxiomSL’s ControllerView platform as the foundation for compliance across its key centres of operation: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Singapore and Switzerland. The bank expects to leverage the implementation to launch a strategic expansion in these areas. Regulatory reporting is emerging…
Fenergo Said to Be Mulling IPO as Rumours of Sale Swirl
Following the success of VC stablemate NCino’s $250 million IPO back in June, rumours are swirling that Dublin-based client lifecycle management specialist Fenergo may be contemplating a significant corporate event, with possibilities ranging from an IPO of its own to a trade sale of the company. While sources close to the company are hinting that…
Overbond Launches AI-Based Pricing to Facilitate Bond Trading Automation
Fixed-income analytics specialist Overbond Ltd. has released a new AI-based pricing engine that aggregates bond data from multiple sources to provide traders with more accurate pricing data for measuring liquidity of individual securities and ultimately enabling execution automation. Overbond’s COBI-Pricing Live consolidates historical data on over 30,000 securities – with a refresh rate of under…
Moody’s Consolidates ESG Capabilities in Solutions Group Led by Andrea Blackman
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing has passed the tipping point and become a key interest among investors across the board. ESG initiatives, particularly climate change, were highlighted at Davos in January this year; the EU has finalised ESG regulations that will come into play in 2021 and provide clarity in a market fragmented by…
Adapting your Data Strategy and Best Data Management Practices for Today’s New Normal
Many data managers are having to work fast to adapt their data strategy to today’s new normal and are finding that this is providing a catalyst for change and digital transformation. This crucial theme is something we’ll explore in detail with many of the industry’s leading practitioners from HSBC Securities Services, UBS Asset Management, Société Générale, Scotiabank, Black…
Talking Trading Tech with Andrew Delaney: Refinitiv Teams with Microsoft for Cloud-Hosted Analytics
Hard on the heels of last week’s news that FactSet is partnering with AWS for cloud-hosted market data provision, Refinitiv has announced a new strategic relationship with Microsoft that features new products and services based on the Microsoft Azure cloud capability. The development is the latest of a series of moves into cloud-based hosting and…
The Pandemic’s Domino Effect on Bank Loan Data
By Tom Stock, Senior Vice President, GoldenSource. Lenders across the globe are bracing themselves for a plethora of defaults by business borrowers. One could say this is the calm before the real COVID-19 induced economic storm. While many businesses have been granted temporary reprieves via government loan support, this next wave has the potential to swiftly…
LIBOR is Ending – But Most Firms Aren’t Ready, Finds Numerix
The decommission of LIBOR is making a huge imprint on the global financial services sector. The transition from LIBOR to alternative reference rates could be the largest financial engineering project the world has ever seen. So what are financial institutions are doing to prepare for the switch to alternative reference rates, and how far along…
CSS’s Amfine Purchase Completes End-to-End Reporting Capability
New York-based Compliance Solutions Strategies’ (CSS) acquisition of Amfine, a European provider of SaaS-based reporting for investment managers, fills a gap in the firm’s regulatory reporting solution lineup and allows it for the first time to offer end-to-end compliance for fund managers and insurers. With the all-cash acquisition complete – terms weren’t disclosed – the…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: Is FactSet’s Move to AWS a Market Data Nirvana?
FactSet’s announcement this week of its plan to migrate its real-time ticker plant to Amazon Web Services may represent the boldest statement of intent yet with respect to cloud delivery of market data. And things seem to be accelerating rapidly in this department. Recent weeks have seen SIX launch a strategic partnership with Xignite to…