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Broadridge Partners with FundApps for Shareholder Disclosures, Limits Monitoring
Broadridge Financial Solutions has integrated FundApps’ regulatory compliance technology with its portfolio and order management solution. The arrangement adds a set of capabilities around shareholder disclosures and limits monitoring to Broadridge’s buy-side product line-up. Broadridge calls FundApps “a unique regulatory compliance solution that addresses managers’ needs across shareholder disclosures, sensitive industry monitoring and position limit…
Confluence Acquires Fundpeak to Address Funds’ KIID, PRIIPS Requirements
Pittsburgh-based risk and regulatory solution specialist Confluence Technologies has agreed to acquire Fundpeak, a provider of tools for helping buy-side firms manage their marketing and communications based in Czech Republic. The acquisition aims to strengthen Confluence’s offerings in the segment by leveraging Fundpeak’s expertise in providing secure fund portals and marketing tools such as fund…
JP Morgan Extends Use of Acin for Operational Risk
JP Morgan has expanded the use of Acin’s operational risk management platform to cover its global markets activities, having worked with the system in its e-trading business for the past two years. The expansion supplements the US bank’s existing operational risk management processes. According to Jamie Hamilton, Global Head of Markets Business Control Management at…
Glue42 Teams with Cloud9 to Integrate Voice Trading into Desktop Applications
London-based desktop automation specialist Glue42 has partnered with voice communication and analytics provider Cloud9 Technologies to deliver a full suite of voice trading capabilities to the institutional marketplace. The partnership aims to provide users with remote access to all trading floor connectivity and services, as well as secure access to voice data, counterparties and regulatory…
Navigating the Post-Brexit Trading Landscape
By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. It’s now almost four months since the UK exited the EU, and from a trading and market infrastructure perspective, a clearer picture of the post-Brexit landscape is starting to emerge, although there are still many uncertainties that lie ahead. How have market participants, venue operators and their supporting ecosystem…
Data Marketplace IOWArocks adds Digital Asset Data from CryptoCompare as Institutional Demand Grows
London-based IOWArocks, the financial data marketplace launched by MDX Technology in 2019, has added CryptoCompare to its growing list of data providers. The demand for real-time, high-quality digital asset data is clearly growing, particularly among financial institutions. Earlier this month, the market capitalisation of the global cryptocurrency market hit $2 trillion for the first time,…
CUSIP Calls on Financial Institutions to Get More Involved in Data Standards Development
CUSIP Global Services is working in partnership to accelerate data standards development in emerging markets including digital securities and ESG investing. The standards organisation is also working with the ANNA Service Bureau to improve coverage and quality of ISINs, and with regulators and the Derivatives Service Bureau on the introduction of the UPI later this…
ESMA Report Calls for Improvement in EMIR Data Quality, Monitoring of SFTR Data
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a report on European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Securitised Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) data quality – and it’s not all good news. While progress has been made, more effort is needed by national competent authorities (NCAs) and ESMA to further improve EMIR data quality. The…
SmartStream Adds Microsoft Azure Cloud Hosting for Air Data Reconciliation Solution
SmartStream Technologies has extended the reach of its Air cloud and AI based data reconciliation solution with version 3, which is hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud required by some global regions to support all their data requirements. SmartStream Air was originally hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and is now available on…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Extends Marketplace with Focus on Collaborative Data Analytics, AI Solutions and ESG Data
S&P Global Market Intelligence has extended the marketplace it released in May 2020 with the addition of a workbench that supports collaborative data analytics, a Kensho machine learning solution for textual data, and 25 data sets and solutions. A new query library helps users search a catalogue of pre-built code queries to speed up data…