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UK and European Regulators Seek to Strengthen Cloud Rule Framework
As trading firms seek to leverage the operational benefits presented by cloud hosting and delivery, UK and European regulators are launching initiatives to improve risk management and ensure resilience of financial markets participants’ cloud-based activities. For many trading firms, cloud offers a compelling solution to a growing number of use cases. The Association for Financial…
NICE Actimize Adds Cryptocurrency Element to AML Solutions Portfolio
NICE Actimize, a specialist in autonomous financial crime management, has jumped on the blockchain bandwagon with the addition of cryptocurrency intelligence platform CipherTrace to X-Sight Marketplace, its financial crime and compliance ecosystem. Founded in 2015 by three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, CipherTrace claims to be the world’s first blockchain forensics provider, offering tracing and security services…
Are We Nearly There Yet? Gearing Up for DMS London 2020
With less than two months to go until the A-Team Group Data Management Summit 2020 in London, anticipation is mounting and preparations are finalising for what looks to be our biggest and best event yet. Join us as we take a sneak peek at the hot topics, key trends, big names and new innovations that…
ICE Data Services Partners BofA to Provide ESG Reference Data Service
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Data Services has joined the growing ranks of providers offering environmental, social and governance (ESG) data services. The company is working with Bank of America (BofA) Global Research as a development partner for an ESG reference data service, which it plans to bring to market in the second half of 2020. ICE…
SIX Changes the Game with New Sanctions Data Service
Last week, Switzerland-based Six launched a new Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service (SSMS) on the Open:FactSet Marketplace (OFM) – a move that it hopes will change the game when it comes to filling in the gaps of KYC compliance for investment professionals. The service is designed to help users mitigate risk by understanding the potential impact…
SteelEye Partners with TeleMessage to Solve the Mobile Communications Conundrum
Recent regulations, including MiFID II, have introduced highly prescriptive rules about the recording, storage and access requirements of voice and electronic communications relating to financial dealings. With all relevant telephone conversations and electronic communications now required to be recorded – including those which take place on mobile phones – surveillance technology is not only a…
Are You Keeping Up With The Regulator?
By Dr Bimal Roy Bhanu, Group CEO at Ai XPRT. Not many things in life are certain, but in the financial services industry it’s obvious to all participants that regulators are continually tightening the national and international governance, risk and compliance requirements. The ultimate aim for firms in 2020 is to stay one step ahead…
CIAM Selects Steeleye for Trade Surveillance, Best Execution and Trade Analytics
CIAM, an event driven investment management firm focused on special situations and using activism as one of several tools to unlock shareholder value, has replaced its existing technology set up with SteelEye regulatory compliance and analytics solutions. The firm has licensed SteelEye’s trade surveillance, best execution and core package, which includes record keeping, trade reconstruction…
BMLL Appoints Paul Humphrey as CEO to Drive Up Business Scale
BMLL Technologies, a data engineering and analytics firm initially spun out of the machine learning labs in the engineering department at Cambridge University, has appointed Paul Humphrey as CEO with responsibility to drive up the scale of the business and realise its mission to democratise access to granular market data and analytical products at speed…
Broadridge Makes Major Strategy Shift with Transition to IBM Financial Services Cloud
Broadridge Financial Solutions has made a major move to accelerate its cloud strategy through an agreement with IBM Services. Broadridge will use what IBM calls the ‘first financial services-ready public cloud’ to create the The Broadridge Private Cloud powered by IBM and transition a large portion of its global infrastructure to the cloud provider. The…