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Don’t Miss It – A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual is Just Weeks Away
Data monetisation, data strategy to drive business outcomes, data discovery and intelligence, the power of data lineage, how to deliver an ESG data strategy and, necessarily, regulatory reporting challenges and the data management response, are just some of the key topics that leading capital markets’ participants and innovative solutions vendors will discuss at A-Team Group’s…
DTCC Data Services Aggregates Back-Office Data to Provide Front-Office Market Insight
DTCC Data Services is tapping the vast quantities of post-trade data that flow through DTCC on a daily basis to deliver back-office data to front-office data products offering market insight into areas such as liquidity, risk, momentum, sentiment and correlation. Early users of the historical data products include hedge funds and quant traders looking for…
Sponsored Blog: The LIBOR Transition: Fallback Rates and the USD Cash Market
By Jacob Rank-Broadley, Head of LIBOR Transition, B&I, Refinitiv. Our latest Refinitiv webinar sees a panel of experts unpack some pertinent issues surrounding cash products referencing USD LIBOR after its cessation. The most widely used USD LIBOR settings will permanently cease or no longer be representative after 30 June 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority has…
Fund Administration Services Provider EFA Selects NeoXam Impress Regulatory Edition
EFA, a provider of administrative services to the fund industry in Luxembourg, has selected NeoXam’s Impress Regulatory Edition hosted with NeoXam-as-a-Service to help meet its regulatory goals. EFA was already using NeoXam GP, the vendor’s back-office investment accounting tool, and selected Impress Regulatory Edition as it needed a dedicated platform to industrialise operations, as well…
Compliance-as-a-Service Provider Lawson Conner Adopts Acquirer IQ-EQ’s Brand Name
Lawson Conner, a UK-based regulatory hosting and outsourced compliance business, has rebranded as IQ-EQ, the name of investment funds service provider that acquired it in 2018. The rebrand of the compliance as-a-service provider comes at a time when the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has prioritised raising standards in the appointed representatives segment. IQ-EQ’s acquisition added…
Australia’s Identitii Launches SaaS-Based AML/CTF Platform to Reduce Regulatory Risk
Australia-based Identitii, which specialises in helping regulated entities including banks and other ‘money services’ providers manage regulatory risk, has launched a SaaS-based reporting and compliance platform aimed at addressing AML and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) reporting obligations. The cloud-based platform delivers end-to-end reporting automation and future proofs compliance by accepting any payment file format used today…
CQG Connects to Brazilian Exchange B3 for Trading and Market Data
Trading solutions provider CQG has added Brazilian Exchange B3, one of the world’s largest financial market infrastructure companies, to its global network of exchanges, enabling clients to obtain trading and market data access to the Brazilian markets for their listed commodities, interest rates, treasury, and equities products. B3 futures contracts are now live on the…
SmartTrade Expands Partnership with Japan’s SBI as Demand for Crypto Solutions Grows
Multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies is expanding its partnership with SBI Liquidity Market, a Japanese FX infrastructure solution and liquidity provider, to provide support for SBI FXTrade’s cryptocurrency derivative trading operations, which will complement the existing FX business of SBI Liquidity Market. SmartTrade is seeing increasing demand for its cryptocurrency & digital asset…
GLEIF Adds Two Validation Agents in Drive to Increase Global LEI Adoption
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) has added two validation agents to its LEI issuance scheme in recent weeks, easing adoption of the identifier and extending its reach in Africa. The foundation has also published its 2020 annual report, noting a rise in LEI numbers and a 2021 focus on the validation agent role introduced in…
SS&C Expands APAC Customer Base with Win at KIM Vietnam Fund Management
KIM Vietnam Fund Management (KIM Vietnam) has selected SS&C Technologies’ Eze order management system to support its operations. The fund manager was established in October 2020 and manages eight investment funds from Korea, Japan and Europe. Most recently, it expanded with the launch of new funds in Vietnam. “We were looking for an experienced investment…