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SAP and AxiomSL Combine SAP HANA with AxiomSL Regulatory Reporting Platform
SAP and AxiomSL have integrated the SAP HANA in-memory database and AxiomSL regulatory reporting platform to deliver a solution that is fast to implement and lowers the cost of regulatory reporting for SAP HANA users. The integration is AxiomSL’s first with another vendor product and is part of a strategic move to integrate the company’s…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Glimpse into the Mysterious World of ION Trading
Financial Technology Partners’ announcement this month of its client Carlyle Group’s recent $400 million acquisition of a ‘minority stake’ in ION Investment Group offered an interesting glimpse into the capabilities of the secretive Irish trading technology specialist. The FTP announcement, issued on June 3, quoted Cam Dyer, managing director of Carlyle’s Global Technology, Media and…
DTCC Data Products Adds Liquidity Coverage Ratio Data Service
DTCC has developed a Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) Data Service that will be available later this month and delivered as a data-as-a-service solution by DTCC Data Products, a centralised market data provisioning service set up a year ago to allow faster and smarter access to DTCC data. The LCR Data Service is designed to help…
OFR Runs Challenge Series to Solve Problem of Matching Entity Identifiers
The Office of Financial Research (OFR) is running a series of challenges designed to develop automated technologies that could solve the problem of matching entity identifiers from different sources and, in particular, make it easier to link entity identifiers from diverse sources to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). Results of the first challenge will be…
Alacra Adds OusideIQ Automated Due Diligence Reports to Compliance Platform
Alacra has added OutsideIQ’s DDIQ automated due diligence reports to its Alacra-On-Demand research fulfilment service and will add the reports to its Alacra Compliance Enterprise client onboarding solution later this year. OutsideIQ’s DDIQ reports are based on algo searches of the web and open source corporate data, complementing Alacra’s searches of licensed data services and…
Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses Aspects of Optimal Performance
Regulation, optimal execution, intelligent trading solutions, high performance technologies and emerging capabilities including machine learning, sentiment analysis and predictive analytics were at the top of the agenda at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City. Setting the scene for the summit, keynotes from Kevin O’Hara, senior advisor to the National Stock Exchange, and…
The IDX Roadshow Rolls into Town
June in London means it’s time for IDX – the International Derivatives Expo, the Futures Industry Association’s conference focusing on regulatory and technology issues facing that particular segment of the marketplace. We managed to stop by and say hi to some friends and clients, and savour the atmosphere of this microcosm of the Chicago market….
A-Team Data Management Summit Outlines Elements of Optimal Data Management
Organising for optimal data management, transformation challenges, operational models, data quality, emerging technologies, data governance and, of course, regulation were top agenda items at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York City. The first keynote speaker, David Luria, vice president, front office data intelligence programs at T. Rowe Price, set the scene for…
Bloomberg Introduces Entity Exchange for KYC and Client Onboarding
Bloomberg has released Entity Exchange, a web-based platform designed to speed up onboarding on the buy side and help banks and brokers on the sell side meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. The platform enables hedge funds to provide entity data and documentation to their trading counterparties. It is supported by Bloomberg’s data intelligence team…
BCBS 239, Solvency II and Beyond: Current status and the next game changers – London Seminar June 2nd
BCBS 239 and Solvency II have driven the Data Governance Agenda for banks and investment firms. Both were enacted on 1st January and many firms are being assessed right now. At the EDMworks Data Practitioner Network on 2nd June we review the current state of the assessment process based on feedback from leading banks. Dennis…