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S&P Global Market Intelligence to Distribute Data Through Snowflake Cloud
S&P Global Market Intelligence today confirmed a new collaboration with cloud data specialist Snowflake to deliver S&P Global’s financial, textual, ESG and alternative data through Snowflake’s cloud platform. In doing so, S&P Global becomes the latest major data provider to join Snowflake’s growing mandate (along with FactSet, who teamed up with the cloud provider back…
AI and its Impact on the Future of Regulatory Compliance
By Jordan Domash, General Manager, Relativity Trace. Over the last 10 years, the term artificial intelligence (AI) has turned into a dinner table conversation topic despite the fact that most people cannot accurately define what AI is even in simple terms or truly understand all the possibilities of the technology. AI doesn’t need to be…
Talking TradingTech with Andrew Delaney: What’s the Real Deal on AI & Ml for Trading?
My first brush with artificial intelligence was in 1988, when the publication I was working on – the now-legendary Trading Systems Technology (I only recently broke the mug…) – ran an item on how some big Japanese bank in New York had built an ‘intelligent’ buy/sell signal engine based on neural networks. Fast forward to…
ACA Compliance Pushes Ahead with Ambitious Expansion Plans
ACA Compliance Group (ACA), a provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisory services and technology solutions, last month successfully secured $40 million in new funding from its existing investor group, led by Starr Investment Holdings (SIH), which acquired a controlling interest in ACA in 2018. The influx of cash looks likely to push ACA’s…
SmartStream Adds MiFID II Derivatives Component Ahead of September Deadline
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Reference Data Utility (RDU) solutions provider, has added derivatives to its Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry service, to help clients meet the rapidly approaching MiFID II deadline of 15 September, 2020. The new service will allow trading counterparties to identify who is responsible for reporting trades in general, but also supports them through one of the most…
LPA Group Acquires RegTech Acarda
Capital markets technology specialist the LPA Group has acquired the Acarda Group, a provider of RegTech solutions for asset managers, fund administrators, insurance companies and banks focusing on the automation of regulatory reporting and automated data management. The accretive, add-on acquisition was preceded by a successful collaboration and test phase starting in April 2020. Acarda’s…
RoZetta Teams with GreenBirch to Help Firms Deploy Managed Analytical Services
Australia-based RoZetta Technology has partnered with London cloud implementation consultancy GreenBirch Group to help financial institutions design and deploy capital markets technology solutions drawing upon their combined expertise in data science, analytics and managed data services. RoZetta specialises in the use of data science and analytics for trading and other financial markets applications; GreenBirch helps…
Nice Actimize Moves Financial Crime Fighting to the Cloud
Financial crime and compliance giant Nice Actimize this month launched its brand new Xceed AI cloud-native platform, which it claims will revolutionise AML and fraud prevention for financial services by accelerating their cloud and digital transformations. The new solution integrates AI, data intelligence, behavioural analytics, and insights within a unified cloud platform designed for a…
OneTrust Launches Schrems II Solutions After Landmark EU Judgement
The landmark decision in July from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Schrems II has changed the way that organisations must manage personal data transfers – creating a whole raft of new challenges that firms must urgently address. To legally transfer personal data from the EU to a third country, it…
ComplyAdvantage Partners with sync. On Financial Crime Compliance
Screening specialist ComplyAdvantage has won a new mandate with fast-growing digital banking app sync. to improve the latter’s AML and anti-fraud capabilities using the RegTech’s AI-driven platform. The partnership will allow the open banking app to run its compliance and risk management processes more smoothly, and to better monitor its customers’ activity; while the relationship…