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Cloud Comes to the Fore for Fails Management
By Daniel Carpenter, Head of Regulation, at Meritsoft, a Cognizant company. As financial market participants of all types await the regulator’s decision on mandatory buy-ins, preparations continue for the introduction of the new CSDR Settlement Discipline Regime. With the focus on updating systems and operational processes to meet the requirements around penalties, as a minimum,…
Refinitiv Integrates World-Check and EPIC to Fortify the Fight Against Fraud
Refinitiv has integrated World-Check and the EPIC platform from GIACT, which it acquired late last year, behind a single API, bringing together the former’s risk intelligence data and the latter’s ability to positively identify and authenticate customers in the fight against fraud and risk-related threats. “For over a decade, legacy solutions have failed to adequately…
Facteus Partners Snowflake to Migrate Sensitive Data to the Snowflake Data Cloud
Facteus, a provider of actionable insights from sensitive data, has joined Snowflake’s partner network with a focus on enabling financial services organisations to use its Mimic synthetic data engine and data enrichment services to transform, enhance, and migrate sensitive data to the Snowflake Data Cloud. Mimic is installed behind an organisation’s firewall and uses proprietary…
ROC and DSB Sign Memorandum of Agreement on Governance of Unique Product Identifier
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) and Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) have finalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the implementation of governance arrangements for the globally harmonised Unique Product Identifier (UPI). In October 2019, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published governance arrangements for the UPI, outlining the governance framework and criteria for the UPI system….
Bloomberg Offers Market-Implied Probability of Default Product to Enterprise Data and Terminal Clients
Bloomberg has made its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, available to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD enables clients to incorporate creditworthiness metrics within existing workflows for a more holistic approach to credit risk management. The product provides clients with a highly responsive, transparent, daily credit risk…
Delta Capita and QAssure Partner to Drive Innovation
Delta Capita, a provider of managed services, technology solutions and consulting to financial institutions, has partnered QAssure Technologies, an independent software testing company headquartered in Singapore, to deliver an open innovation platform designed to accelerate innovation and address the challenges that delay innovation, such as operational complexity and ever-changing regulation. The companies say proof of…
DTCC Increases Transparency of Credit Default Swaps Market with Upgraded CDS Kinetics Platform
DTCC has enhanced its CDS Kinetics data platform to support demand for more transparency into the credit default swaps (CDS) market within the over-the-counter derivatives space. The platform provides position data on CDS sourced from DTCC’s Trade Information Warehouse including notional outstanding, net notional, and trading volume metrics on securities including single-name, index, and index…
Sponsored Blog: The Complexities of Shareholding Disclosure
Complex shareholder disclosure regulations, especially where assets are held across jurisdictions, can quickly translate into a significant headache for asset managers and institutional investors alike. Secure access to the right data and analytics can mean the difference between compliance and a breach of regulations. About shareholding disclosure Shareholding disclosure regulations have been designed to protect…
Buy-Side Firms Report Data Management Challenges and Solutions in Outsourcing
Some 86% of decision makers in buy-side financial firms say their organisation has a significant data management challenge, with 28% citing a fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest challenge they face. A further 8% have a problem with IT bandwidth, stating: “Our IT teams…
RBC Wealth Management US Selects Broadridge Platform for Technology Transformation
RBC Wealth Management-U.S. has selected Broadridge Financial Solutions wealth management platform to power its growing US business. The selection is part of a multi-year technology transformation at the wealth management firm and is the latest in a series of investments in tools and services. The firm will also migrate to Broadridge’s next-generation asset servicing platform….