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HUB Cloud Platform Aims to Transform Asset Management Operating Model
The HUB technology company set up by PIMCO, Man Group, IHS Markit, State Street, Microsoft and McKinsey & Company promises a utility style cloud-based platform designed to transform asset managers’ middle and back office operating processes, and accelerate them towards a digital operating model. This should reduce cost and mitigate risks, and leave asset managers…
DSB Opens First Consultation on UPI Fee Principles
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) opened a first round of industry consultation on fee principles for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) today. The consultation ends on 5 March 2021 and is the first of two consultations before a final report is published in September 2021. The UPI will come into play in 2022 and will…
BXS Launches Rule 606 Consolidator Tool
BXS, a New York-based compliance reporting and analytics solutions provider, has launched a new Rule 606 Consolidator tool. Available to all existing BXS customers, the new add-on provides a comprehensive view of brokers’ public Rule 606 report filings, allowing market centers to analyze how their clients and prospects are routing order flow and how their…
IHS Markit Expands Reporting Capability with Cappitech Acquisition
As the global demand for regulatory reporting solutions continues to soar amidst a challenging environment, IHS Markit has taken the bull by the horns with its acquisition of Israeli RegTech specialist Cappitech. Financial terms were not disclosed, but it seems as if the deal may have been in the pipeline for a while. Although Cappitech…
Covid Proof: The Future of Onboarding High-Net-Worth Clients
By Hugo Chamberlain, COO, smartKYC. The future of high-net-worth client onboarding has arrived – and it is one well suited for our post-COVID world. Automated and paperless, it enables wealth managers to accelerate acquisition, fully comply with the most stringent KYC regulations and deliver a frictionless start to the beginning of the client relationship. In…
Trading & Electronic Communications Surveillance in a Changing World
By Mike O’Hara, Special Correspondent. The ongoing necessity for many trading professionals to work from home has placed an additional burden on compliance teams struggling to ensure their firms play by the rules while staff operate away from designed-for-purpose trading floors. The situation has been a catalyst for change in how surveillance against financial crime…
How to Get Your Data Management Ducks in a Row to Deliver Rapid, High Quality Analytics and Surveillance
Is your organisation looking to achieve market-beating analytics and exceptional market surveillance that will surpass regulatory compliance to deliver new business opportunities? If this is the case, look no further than A-Team Group’s next webinar that will discuss how to build a robust data management discipline to drive efficient and effective analytics and market surveillance….
DXC Technology Spins Off Fixnetix to Options Technology
Almost four years after inheriting the company as part of its 2017 acquisition of CSC, DXT Technology has spun off capital markets infrastructure specialist Fixnetix in a sale to erstwhile rival Options Technology. Terms weren’t disclosed. The transaction – which is expected to close in the first half of this year – marks a full…
Lack of Equivalence Post Brexit Raises Costly Data Management Concerns
The UK has finally left the European Union. A trade deal was wrung out at the eleventh hour, allowing the two sides to trade with zero tariffs and quotas, but the financial services industry has been left hanging – with talk of an MoU around the regulation of financial services being reached by March 2021…
ANNA and GLEIF Expand ISIN-to-LEI Mapping Service
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has further expanded the ISIN-to-LEI mapping service it provides in conjunction with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to cover ISINs in an additional group of jurisdictions. The mapping service developed collectively by the GLEIF, ANNA and its National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) was launched as a pilot…