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Opinion: “Big Data” Analytics will Play an Important Role in the Fight Against Payments Fraud
By Mike Urban, Director, Financial Crime Risk Management, Fiserv Fighting payments fraud has become one of the biggest challenges for financial organisations across the globe. In recent years there has been an explosion in both access channels and real-time payment methods meaning that monitoring financial transactions and ensuring that they are secure and legitimate has…
LIBOR: Could We Have Seen it Coming?
The repercussions of the LIBOR price fixing scandal are likely to run and run. We now know that from around 2005 onwards a number of banks were attempting to manipulate rates. Over $6 billion has already been levied in fines, and with $300 trillion-worth of contracts pegged to this all-important benchmark, the figure could well…
RiskFirst Builds Business in US with PFaroe Risk Analytics Platform
RiskFirst, a UK-based risk analytics provider, is building out its business in the US with the support of partner Winklevoss Technologies and early client wins with its PFaroe real-time, web-based valuation, analytics and reporting platform at Rocaton Investment Advisors and Nuveen Asset Management. The company, formerly known as PensionsFirst, introduced PFaroe in the UK market…
Fonetic and Tango Team to Deliver Dodd-Frank Compliant Voice Recording and Speech Analytics Solution
Fonetic, a provider of voice recognition and linguistics analytics, has set up a partnership with Tango Networks, a provider of business mobility services, to offer a mobile voice recording and speech analytics system designed to help financial institutions meet voice compliance requirements on the trading floor. The solution is a server software overlay that can…
Corvil Giga Platform Delivers Real-Time Operational Intelligence and Big Data Integration
Corvil has added streaming analytics, big data adapters, auto data discovery and more to its network performance monitoring solution to deliver a streaming analytics platform designed for real-time operational intelligence and big data integration. The Corvil Giga release – which will be followed by Tera and Peta releases supporting greater data volumes within the next…
Velocimetrics Redraws Product Roadmap to Include TS-Associates’ Solutions and Technologies
Velocimetrics has licensed the intellectual property rights (IPR) of TS-Associates’ TipOff and Application Tap network monitoring and analysis products following the company’s collapse into administration. Velocimetrics says it will continue to maintain and develop the former TS-Associates products as well as integrate them with its own technology, which offers real-time business-level insight into activity across…
Numerix Teams With CameronTec on OTC Structured Products Pricing
Numerix has teamed up with CameronTec to deliver OTC structured products pricing including real-time response to quote requests. The solution was developed to meet the needs of a bank in Singapore, but is expected to gain traction further afield as banks trade increasingly sophisticated derivatives products. The Singapore bank wanted to scale its structured products…
NovaSparks Partners Thesys to Deliver FPGA Based Market Data Service
NovaSparks has set up a partnership with Thesys Technologies to provide a low-latency market data service to Thesys customers. The service is based on NovaSpark’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware architecture, including a feed handler that allows efficient and cost effective access to market data with minimal impact on the resiliency and latency of…
A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into Improving Data Contributions
Data contributions to financial benchmarks have been a cause for concern since the Libor scandal emerged in 2012, yet despite heavy fines imposed on banks that manipulated the rate, only now are efforts to improve the situation being made in earnest. Addressing the issues of data contributions to the market, an A-Team Group webinar entitled…
Fidessa Develops FIX-Based Affirmation Service for the Buy Side
Fidessa is pushing further into the post-trade space with the addition of an affirmation management service (AMS) for the buy side. The service is due to be available in the fourth quarter of 2014 and follows the introduction of Fidessa’s FIX-based Post-trade Hub for the confirmation of trades between buy-side and sell-side firms in August…