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TNS Adds Real Time HKEX Market Data to Its Global Offering
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has added real time market data from the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to its platform, allowing its customers to access the market data systems of the ninth largest stock exchange, and the 14th largest derivatives exchange, in the world. “Hong Kong is one of the world’s foremost financial centers,…
2 + 2 = 5: Beeks Financial Cloud Acquires Velocimetrics in £4.2m Deal
Following an earlier attempt in 2019 that fell at the final hurdle, Glasgow-based cloud computing and global infrastructure services company Beeks Financial Cloud has finally snapped up trade analytics specialist Velocimetrics for a cool £1.3 million, in a deal announced yesterday. The initial acquisition amount was split between £700,000 in cash and £600,000 in equity,…
Consultants Greenbirch Aims to Guide Firms on Cloud Strategy
With the coronavirus pandemic having firmly fixed cloud on the agenda of trading technologists across the board, a group of London market consultants has launched Greenbirch, which is offering financial institutions guidance on their cloud strategies. According to Alex Wolcough, the former Appbroker consultant behind the Greenbirch initiative, the company plans to help financial firms…
COVID 19: Services Directory
As the coronavirus crisis extends into the medium to long-term, technology vendors and solutions providers are stepping up to the plate with a wide variety of services and support for clients to assist them through the data management challenges presented by the new operational and working environment. Below, you can find these collated into an…
Insight: How to Adapt your Data Strategy to Changing Times
As the debut Data Management Summit Europe Virtual from the A-Team Group fast approaches (book your place here), and as the ongoing complexities of operating in a post-COVID 19 world start to become clear, it is imperative that firms evaluate their current approach to data management in order to identify the emerging gaps in their current provision, and…
COVID-19: Regulator Round-up (14 April)
In these days of unprecedented economic pressure and accompanying financial volatility, regulators around the world are realigning their priorities and rapidly shifting their strategies to support institutions through the ongoing crisis. In this regular weekly feature, we keep you up to date on the latest regulatory news, responses and approaches – from deadline delays to…
Kompli-Global Launches Remote Corporate Onboarding Platform
AML specialist Kompli-Global has launched Kompli-QED, a new remote corporate onboarding platform, in a bid to help financial firms fight an increase in COVID-19 related fraud and financial crime. The AI-based platform facilitates activities that regulated entities, such as banks, payment providers, accountants, estate agents and law firms, must undertake as part of their compliance…
Wolters Kluwer and Vizor Software’s Singapore Partnership Aligns Regulator and Financial Services Software for Improved Regulatory Reporting
Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business and Vizor Software have teamed up to work on a partnership for the Singapore market that will integrate the Vizor Reporting API into Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX platform for regulatory reporting, allowing it to automatically consume published machine-readable regulatory rules and data models directly from Singapore’s regulatory system. Vizor Software…
Unravelling AML Technology to Tackle Compliance and Mitigate Risk
By Niall Twomey, Chief Technology Officer, Fenergo. Recent research on financial institution fines revealed that, since 2008 global penalties have reached $36 billion for non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations. That is a 160% increase since our last fines analysis report, in September 2018, highlighting the unrelenting and costly march…
FRTB Calculation Debates Centre on Style, When They Should be Focusing on Substance
By Tim Versteeg, Managing Director of APAC at NeoXam. It’s been a turbulent few years for financial institutions when it comes to regulations, and 2020 is no different. With FRTB set to come in at the end of the year, financial institutions are devoting significant time and resources to comply with the regulation. For the…