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Lack of Digital Skills and Maturity Restrict Transformation in Financial Markets
Data management functions in the finance sector, such as data collection, integration, and automation, are constrained by a severe lack of digital skills and maturity, despite leadership awareness of the importance of an effective data strategy. While a lack of skills is widely acknowledged across capital markets, a report from Encompass, a provider of automated…
Etrading Releases Digital Token Identifier Registration Service, Initiates Use of Standards Across Digital Token Asset Class
Etrading Software has started Digital Token Identifier (DTI) registration following go live of the DTI registry in July 2021 and recent publication of the ISO standard for digital assets, ISO 24165. With the standard in place, early work by the registry includes coverage of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalisation – ultimately, all digital…
Deutsche Bank Indonesia Teams with Xceptor to Automate Tax Processes for Post-Trade Settlement
Deutsche Bank Corporate Bank has adopted an automated workflow platform for the administration of capital gains withholding tax during the post-trade settlement process in Indonesia. The platform, based on the Xceptor Tax Solution, is aimed at streamlining manual processes and reducing the time to calculate withholding tax amounts down to seconds. Deutsche Bank will also…
Beyond Cryptocurrencies – Building a Market Infrastructure for Digital Assets
Mention digital assets, and most people will immediately think of cryptocurrencies. This is perhaps not surprising, as ownership of digital assets is currently dominated by the two leading cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Ethereum. The fast-evolving world of digital assets now goes way beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies, however, and has the potential to open up a…
ESG Growth Will Require Dedicated Research Teams: Stellar Data Labs’ Bansal
Financial institutions will need to create highly trained teams dedicated to properly interpreting the growing volumes of ESG data they’re receiving, a leading data executive has forecast. But the novel nature of the information will mean data professionals must give up some of their autonomy to researchers who are better equipped to incorporate it into…
Countdown to Operational Resilience Deadline Adds Pressure to UK Firms
UK financial services institutions and firms now have less than six months to identify their ‘important business services’, set impact tolerances and carry out mapping and testing ahead of the new UK Regulatory Operational Resilience Requirements coming into force on March 31, 2022. The new requirements are being ushered in by the Bank of England,…
Level 2 SFDR ESG Disclosure Requirements are on the Horizon – Is Your Organisation Ready to Comply?
The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is central to the European drive towards a sustainable financial market. It is also complicated and multi-faceted, and makes rigorous demands on financial firms to source large volumes of ESG data and meet numerous reporting obligations. Key elements of disclosure include sustainability risk, principle adverse impacts, and a…
TNS to Offer Managed Layer 1 Market Access at Bergamo IT3 for Euronext Move
Connectivity specialist TNS is expanding its managed hosting solution to the Aruba Global Datacentre IT3 in Bergamo, Italy, in preparation for Euronext’s migration of its primary matching engine from ICE’s facility in Basildon, UK, in the second quarter of next year. As with TNS’s other global colocation sites, TNS will leverage its Layer 1 switching…
Scotiabank Partners Google Cloud to Accelerate Global Data and Analytics Strategy
Scotiabank has made a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to increase the bank’s cloud-first commitment and accelerate its global data and analytics strategy. As a Scotiabank trusted cloud partner for data and analytics, Google Cloud will help create a more personal and predictive banking experience for Scotiabank customers in the Americas and across the globe….
Monetary Authority of Singapore Plans Shared Data Platform to Combat Money Laundering
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) plans to introduce a digital platform and enabling regulatory framework that will allow financial institutions to share data on customers and transactions with the aim of preventing money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing – a means of raising, moving or making available financing, funds, assets or other economic…