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Finastra Wins Investment Platform Deal with KAMCO
Financial systems provider Finastra has been chosen ahead of five competitors to provide Kuwait-based investment company KAMCO with a single software platform that will integrate all the company’s asset management operations. Finastra’s Fusion Invest product will support KAMCO as it aims to scale up its business, extend asset class coverage and expand the range of…
Do It Once, Do It Right
By Bill Hodash and Eugene Ing, DTCC Next year will mark a decade since the financial crisis. Since then, a wave of regulatory reforms has been implemented to increase the transparency and resiliency of the financial system, including the mandate to use legal entity identifiers (LEIs) across many jurisdictions. The goal is to ensure that…
RegTech API Fortress Focuses on Fast and Accurate Data Delivery
In a financial world driven by data, delivery is critical. Ahead of next week’s RegTech showcase at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets in New York, we talked to Patrick Poulin, CEO of regtech API Fortress about the company’s views on application programming interfaces (APIs) and its platform for API testing automation. Q: What…
Asset Control Integrates DataStax Enterprise to Power Market Data Platform
Asset Control has teamed up with DataStax to deliver a cloud based, NoSQL market and reference data platform. The platform is powered by DataStax Enterprise, integrated with Asset Control’s AC Plus enterprise data management (EDM) solution, and addresses issues around data volume, speed and access. Asset Control considered a number of technologies to support a…
Challenging the Barriers to RegTech Adoption
Management buy-in, cultural change and legacy systems can be barriers to the adoption of regtech, although the barriers are beginning to lower as regtech solutions show potential to fulfil business use cases and provide cost benefits. In the run-up to A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for Capital Markets on November 16, 2017 in New York, we…
Regulation Driving Technological Evolution of Financial Industry
By: David Pagliaro, EMEA head of State Street Global Exchange Our CEO once commented: “Over our long history, periods of significant regulatory change have provided the greatest opportunities.” This couldn’t be more true today. Since the global financial crisis, a plethora of regulation has been introduced and enforced. While the pace of new regulatory initiatives…
TP ICAP Names Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services
Interdealer broker TP ICAP has named Eric Sinclair as CEO of Information Services, the company’s data and analytics division. Sinclair will replace Frank Desmond who is leaving the company after 12 years of service. Sinclair will join TP ICAP on November 13, 2017, moving on from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX) where he spent 14…
Sponsored Blog: Curium Data Systems’ Adam Saunders Discusses the Release of CuriumEDM
This week, Curium Data Systems launches CuriumEDM (Enterprise Data Management). Data Management Review (DMR) interviews Adam Saunders, Director of Curium Data Systems about the new platform. DMR: Why did you decide to build out the enterprise data management capability on top of the existing data quality management and business intelligence modules? Adam Saunders: We always…
Brickendon Proposes a Five-Pronged Approach to GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a game changer, requiring firms to identify, manage and provide access to individuals’ personal data. Are firms up to speed on meeting the regulation’s May 2018 compliance deadline, or is there still some way to go? Ahead of a panel session on GDPR at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit for…
Ex-Client Takes Lead at 3di North America
Data management software and services provider, 3d innovations (3di), has hired former client Greg Kozar to run its products and services practice in the US and Canada. Kozar is a market data specialist and consultant who previously worked at Moody’s, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, among others. He will advise 3di’s clients – across banks,…