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Are You Ready for Brexit?
Things might be up in the air at the moment around Brexit negotiations, but the UK financial regulators have made it very clear that firms must be ready for the final deadline on December 31, 2020 or risk facing the consequences. Firms that don’t prepare in advance for the changing regulatory environment could face tough…
CubeLogic Launches New Risk-as-a-Service Solution
Enterprise risk management specialist CubeLogic this week launched a brand new risk analytics solution in partnership with capital markets technology firm Numerix and London-based IOWArocks (formerly MDX Technology), a global marketplace for data, technology and services. The Risk-as-a-Service (Raas) platform provides advanced risk analytics as a fully managed solution, targeting both capital markets firms and…
Five Misconceptions About KYC Compliance in 2020
By Ian Henderson, CEO, Kyckr. Know Your Customer compliance suffers from a problem of unintentional secrecy. Everyone knows that organizations are responsible for meeting their KYC and AML obligations and keeping up with KYC best practices, but that’s becoming harder and harder to do. KYC is not simply a matter of going down a list and…
DSB Calls on Market Participants to Join Consultation Covering UPI Fee Model
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) is pushing on with development of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) ahead of implementation in 2022 with consultations designed to understand market participants’ views on how the principles underlying the fee model for the identifier should be established. All firms reporting to trade repositories will need to include the UPI…
Asset Control Rebrands to Alveo Following Two Years of Product Innovation Focused on Cloud and Open Source
Asset Control has rebranded to Alveo, subline ‘where data flows’, to reflect progress the company has made since moving to new ownership under Sovereign Capital Partners two years ago. The focus has been on product innovation, making core software cloud native, deploying managed services, and using cloud technologies to accelerate implementation, and open source tools…
A-Team Group Names Winners of Data Management Insight Awards 2020
A-Team Group has announced the winners of its prestigious Data Management Insight Awards 2020. The annual awards, now in their eighth year, recognise leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants. The award winners were announced online across categories ranging from best sell-side and buy-side data management platforms to best…
AWS, SGX and Aquis POC Demonstrates Feasibility of Cloud-Based Matching
AWS, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Aquis Exchange recently completed a proof of concept (POC) that confirmed the viability of situating an exchange matching engine in a cloud environment. The POC – which focused on evaluating the core functions and connectivity latencies of Aquis’s order-matching platform in the AWS cloud – demonstrated respectable order turnaround…
DANIE Consortium Uses Game Changing Privacy Enhancing Technology to Improve Client Reference Data Quality
The DANIE consortium set up to help financial institutions improve the quality of their client reference data by benchmarking data with peers without revealing data sources and with encryption, is calling for banks to confirm places in its 2021 community by 18th December 2020. You can find out more and sign up by contacting community@danie.tech….
Refinitiv Adds Country SDG Scores to ESG Data Arsenal
Refinitiv’s launch of measures assessing the sustainable development performance of individual countries is the latest of a series of services targeted at the burgeoning ESG investing space. The addition allows Refinitiv to offer asset managers and servicers scores that indicate the degree to which funds, corporations and now countries meet the UNs Sustainable Development Goals…
New Change FX Selects EOSE to Accelerate Distribution of Data and Analytics
New Change FX (NCFX), an independent administrator of regulated FX benchmarks, has partnered EOSE to strengthen distribution of its FX data and TCA tools. EOSE will enable NCFX to concentrate its resources on developing core business strategies by providing the company with a team of expert data sales and business development professionals to ensure new…