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OneMarketData Adds Strategy Backtesting Platform to OneTick Product Portfolio

OneMarketData has introduced a strategy development and large-scale backtesting platform that is powered by the company’s OneTick data management and time series analytics solution and supported by global multi-asset class market history available through the OneTick Cloud. The platform is called OneTick Strategy Backtesting and is available immediately as either a hosted service or deployed…

Nice Actimize Moves into Middle Tier Market with Cloud Based AML Solution

Nice Actimize is moving into the mid-sized financial institutions market with a cloud platform that will initially provide an anti-money laundering (AML) software-as-a-service solution and later a complete suite of financial crime applications. The AML solution, Actimize AML Essentials, is a packaged and variant version of the company’s AML enterprise software. It covers suspicious activity…

Financial Machineries Extends Data Coverage of Global Trade Repository Analytics

Financial Machineries has extended coverage of foreign exchange data in its Global Trade Repository (GTR) Analytics solution, which collects OTC derivatives transaction data from trade repositories, cleanses and normalises the data, and distributes the data, including actual trade prices, to clients in less than two minutes. The additional FX data covers FX forwards and non-deliverable…

Markit Releases Due Diligence Solution for Common Reporting Standard

Markit is addressing the customer due diligence requirements of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) with a solution based on its tax and Know Your Customer (KYC) experience, and designed in conjunction with five market participants including Barclays and Brown Brothers Harriman. Essentially, CRS is a global version of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act…

Entity Data Management: Strategic Options and Approaches, London Seminar 13th April

By Dennis Slattery, CEO at EDMworks How do some teams keep winning? Every week, we see winners and losers in a variety of team sports. A tiny number of teams consistently outperform the rest. They lose occasionally, but on average they come out on top over a sequence of fixtures. Barcelona has dominated elite football…

Capital Markets’ Regulatory Burden: The Case for FIBO as a Relief

By Bob Iati, Senior Director of Capital Markets at Dun & Bradstreet The financial industry expends so much effort to meet difficult regulatory requirements that its ability to invest in innovative technologies is severely curtailed. However, many in the industry now find that investments in data standards – such as the Financial Industry Business Ontology…

Kingland Systems Delivers Risk and Compliance Solutions Based on Data Science

Kingland Systems is building out its portfolio of data management solutions with a data diagnostics service designed to help users improve entity data quality, the implementation of cognitive technology to ease the burden of data management, and plans for a platform that will support the lifecycle of data. Kingland was founded in 1992 with a…

IHS and Markit Merger Set to Result in Large Scale Information Business

The merger of IHS and Markit will create a large scale information provider working across the financial services, energy and transport markets, and taking advantage of cross selling opportunities within the companies’ combined customer base. What is less clear is the priority the merged company will give to financial data solutions, particularly Markit’s processing services…

A-Team Webinar Notes Need for Next Generation Technologies to Improve Data Quality

Next generation technologies that support the improvement of data quality are on the agenda at many financial institutions as they look to improve their regulatory response and consider how to gain competitive advantage. Among the technology options, data automation and cognitive technologies offer significant potential, along with managed services and cloud computing. Market appetite for…

Fidelity ActionsXchange Rebrands to Reflect Range of Corporate Actions Solutions

Fidelity ActionsXchange has rebranded to Fidelity Corporate Actions Solutions with a view to emphasising its provision of not only corporate actions data, but also analyst services and workflow solutions that ensure data accuracy and automate the lifecycle of corporate actions. The update comes as financial institutions extend their use of corporate actions data beyond back-office…