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BCC, Push and Baker Team Up to Offer Cloud Market Data Solution
The ongoing buzz around cloud-delivered market data continues with news of a partnership between BCC Group, Push Technology and Baker Technology. The collaboration is aimed at offering an end-to-end solution to optimize, control and accelerate market data delivery in cloud environments. The initiative brings together three solution providers specialising in distribution, integration and presentation of…
Itiviti Seeks First-Mover Advantage through Shift to Cloud
Nordic Capital-owned trading technology provider Itiviti is seeking first-mover advantage from its plans to make its entire electronic trading platform available through the cloud. The company last month announced a collaboration with data specialist Data Canopy and tech consultant Ingram Micro to adopt a hybrid private-public cloud strategy for its suite of trading technology services,…
Data Standards Can Be a Challenge, But Also an Opportunity
Data standards are crucial to interoperability across capital markets, can be challenging to implement, and are constantly evolving. Against this backdrop, how can market participants implement and make best use of existing and forthcoming data standards? And how are regulators approaching standardisation? Next week’s A-Team Group webinar, Data Standards – Progress and Case Studies, will…
Challenger Bank Allica Selects London Start-Up Sphonic for Financial Crime Compliance
Allica Bank, a digital challenger bank first launched in 2020 to focus on small businesses underserved by mainstream institutions, has selected a financial crime product suite from London-based Regtech firm Sphonic’s to support its compliance function. Sphonic, first formed in 2012 with the creation of its core product Workflow Manager (WFM), acts as a Data…
Lombard Odier Selects Bloomberg to Streamline Risk Management Processes
Lombard Odier Investment Managers, the asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, has adopted Bloomberg’s PORT Enterprise solution to support portfolio and risk management across multiple assets classes. Lombard Odier IM is a long-standing client of Bloomberg’s order management system AIM, and first integrated PORT Enterprise back in 2019 to support performance attribution and…
ANNA Progresses Issuance of ISINs for Digital Assets, Notes Addition of Digital Token Identifier Standard
As institutional interest in digital assets continues to rise and the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) makes plans to use International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) to identify these assets, we caught up with Stephan Dreyer, managing director of ANNA, to review progress. He sets the scene, saying: “We are seeing growing issuance of traditional…
Why the Reality of Third-Country Regulatory Reporting is About to Bite!
By Volker Lainer, Vice-President of Product Management at GoldenSource. Just two months until the end of the transition period, ESMA’s latest report brings home the stark reality of what third-country status means for UK financial institutions from a regulatory reporting perspective. Regardless of whether or not a trade agreement between the EU and the UK…
Finastra Focuses on High Speed App Innovation with Fusion Data Cloud Platform
Finastra, one of the world’s largest fintechs following the merger of D+H and Misys back in 2017, has released Fusion Data Cloud, a next-generation data platform that allows fintechs to develop innovative data solutions at speed, and financial institutions to take advantage of technologies including AI, machine learning (ML) and business intelligence (BI). Fusion Data…
ICE Data Services Partners RepRisk to Extend ESG Data Offer
ICE Data Services has forged a partnership with Zurich-based RepRisk to extend its environmental, social and governance (ESG) data offerings. RepRisk’s ESG data covers issues related to human rights, labour practices, corruption and the environment. It will be integrated with ICE Data Services’ ESG Reference Data, the company’s first move into the ESG space early…
Bloomberg Offers Guidance on Getting Data Annotation Right for Machine Learning
Machine learning has become essential to financial institutions seeking timely business insight and signals of opportunity and risk across the business. At many firms, the technology is being scaled and use cases are proliferating. There are limitations, however, with useful outcomes from machine learning models depending on high quality data that is annotated accurately and…