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Communications = Key Compliance Concern During Covid-19
COVID-19, lockdown, working from home and self-isolation are now well established across the financial industry, but how are compliance teams impacted? A recent survey on market abuse monitoring from SteelEye found that almost half (40%) of the 80 market participants have seen their compliance budgets increase since the lockdown, with monitoring communications seen as the…
New Fixnetix Chief Beeman Outlines Vision for Front-Office Lift-Out Offering
Jake Beeman, who took over as general manager of Fixnetix this month following the departure of Steve Williams, has arrived with the remit to expand on the company’s vision for front-office transformation, with a specific focus on data, analytics and infrastructure. Beeman took on his new role at Fixnetix on May 13, Prior to that…
BrokerTec and TriOptima Collaborate on End-To-End Repo Workflow Solution
BrokerTec, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, and TriOptima, an infrastructure service that lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, have collaborated to create the industry’s first end-to-end repo workflow solution for industry participants, providing full automation across the lifecycle of a repo trade. Connecting the…
Crosslake Fibre Strengthens US/Canada Connection with 165 Halsey Street Expansion
Crosslake Fibre, a telecoms operator specialising in connectivity between Canada and the US, has expanded its network into the 1.2 million square foot data center, colocation and telecom carrier hotel 165 Halsey Street, just 13 miles from Manhattan. The new network, which delivers sub-9 ms round trip delay (RTD) performance between Toronto and New York…
Infosys Partners with Avaloq on Digital Wealth Management Capabilities
Digital services giant Infosys has entered into a strategic partnership with Swiss wealth management software specialist Avaloq, to provide end-to-end (e2e) wealth management capabilities through digital platforms. As part of the agreement, Infosys will be a strategic implementation partner for Avaloq’s wealth management suite of solutions, helping clients modernize and transform their legacy systems into digital…
Cloud Data Protection Specialist Clumio Teams up with Microsoft 365
Clumio, a California-based cloud-security start-up focusing on software-as-a-service (SaaS) for enterprise backup, has added Microsoft 365 to its secure backup-as-a-service, providing organisations running Microsoft 365 with a globally consolidated data protection service as the global coronavirus pandemic sees a rapid increase in ransomware attacks and email scams. The two-year old company, which in December 2019…
Why Markets Must Give Bonds a Data Licence to Thrill!
By Neill Vanlint, Global Head of Sales at GoldenSource. Nothing causes more heated debate than a new bond. As the spectre of the world’s central banks global response to COVID-19 continues, today marks the U.S Treasury’s latest attempt to weather the economic storm by issuing $54 billion worth of debt in the form of 20-year bonds. Depending on…
Basel IV FRTB Changes Leave Financial Institutions Asking: How Do You Spell Difficult? “F-R-T-B”
By Mahim Mehra, Senior Risk Advisor, AxiomSL. With the original introduction of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) completely rewrote the rules used to determine how much capital financial institutions must hold in order to adequately capitalize their exposure to market risk. The previous FRTB changes…
Kompli-Global Partners with Yoti to Tackle Money Laundering through Verified Identities
Kompli-Global, a RegTech AML specialist, has formed a strategic partnership with digital identity and credential management platform, Yoti, to tackle money laundering through biometric identity and document authentication. Kompli-Global recently launched its remote corporate onboarding platform, Kompli-QED, combining its own proprietary solutions with best-in-class third party services. Yoti, a UK-based digital ID and credential management…
RIMES Launches BMR Dashboard Service for EU Benchmarks Regulation
RIMES, the winner of Best Vendor Solution for Benchmark Regulation at the 2020 RegTech Insight Awards, has expanded its RegTech suite with the launch of the RegFocus BMR Dashboard, a new tool to help asset managers understand their exposure under the EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR). The BMR has provided a significant compliance challenge for the buy-side….