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Why the Future of FX is in the Cloud
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. The momentum behind cloud in financial services is building, and quickly. With big names such as IBM moving into the space, it signals that this is the future of financial markets infrastructure. Looking specifically at FX, there are many reasons to believe that firms are shifting towards this…
A-Team Group Releases Entity Data Management Handbook 2021
The use of accurate, complete and timely entity data and modern entity data management solutions can be the difference between regulatory compliance and penalties for non-compliance, doing business with the right or wrong customers, and complying with sanctions and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) requirements or breaching these and incurring eye-watering financial fines and reputational damage….
Former HSBC Global CDO Lorraine Waters Joins Solidatus as the Company’s First CDO
Lorraine Waters, who took early retirement from her role as global chief data officer at HSBC in September 2020, has returned to the capital markets data management community in the role of chief data officer at Solidatus. She joins the company, a leader in metadata management software, as it expands in size, extends its geographic…
Bank of England Progresses Data Standards Plan to Improve Data Collection at Lower Cost to Industry
The Bank of England is pressing ahead with plans to deliver data standards for data collection based on its vision that ‘the bank gets the data it needs to fulfil its mission, at the lowest possible cost to industry’. It acknowledges the challenges of setting standards, such as coordinating collective action, and says it will…
Can Asset Managers Finally Find a Cure for their Reporting Headaches?
Clement Miglietti, Chief Product Officer, NeoXam. It is hard to think of another issue that has been deliberated over more in recent times than the need for accurate reporting. The issue is, as with so many issues relating to market infrastructure, the bigger the problem the harder it is to actually come up with a…
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…