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ANNA Updates on ISIN-to-LEI Service Noting Opt In of US NNA CUSIP Global Services
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has provided an update on the service it provides with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) with Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs). ISIN-to-LEI relationship files were initially released on the GLEIF website in April 2019. They received a positive industry response,…
Singapore’s Tookitaki Drives Forward AI in Anti-Money Laundering
Enterprise software specialist Tookitaki closed its Series A Funding Round at $19.2 million last week, following a further $11.7 million injected in November. The latest round was co-led by venture funds Viola Fintech and SIG Asia Investment, along with Nomura Incubation Investment. They join existing investors including Illuminate Financial, Jungle Ventures and SEEDs Capital, an…
As Clock Ticks on SM&CR, FCA Looks to Extend Coverage to Benchmark Administrators
There is only a week to go until the final SM&CR deadline on December 9, by which time all remaining FCA-regulated firms (including asset managers, brokers and trading firms) will have to comply with the new rules – and start submitting data to the new FCA Directory. But as crunch time catches up with the…
Saxo Bank Japan Migrates from Legacy Ledger to Torstone Cloud Solution
Saxo Bank Japan is replacing its legal ledger legacy system with Torstone Technology’s Inferno cloud-based solution and has gone live with the first phase of migration. The bank is making the replacement to support regulatory reporting on the cloud for existing and new equity business. Using Inferno, Saxo Bank Japan is able to reduce operational…
Regulatory Data Use Cases for Privacy-Enhancing Technology
Privacy-enhancing technology (PET) is emerging as a new way for financial services firms to share and compare confidential data without compromising competitiveness or data privacy compliance. Several new use cases are emerging. Improving MiFID II reference data For example, a new industry initiative that uses advanced information security techniques looks set to enable European and…
VoxSmart Extends Comms Surveillance Capability with Acquisition of Fonetic Trading Business
VoxSmart, a provider of mobile surveillance technology, has acquired the trading business of Fonetic with a view to delivering a complete communications surveillance offering that addresses market demand for consolidation and integration compliance and surveillance solutions. The acquisition, financial details of which have not been disclosed, follows some high-profile regulatory investigations and prosecutions, such as…
Bloomberg’s Presidential Run Poses Challenges for Bloomberg News
Michael Bloomberg’s decision to run for the Democratic Party’s nomination for US president poses some thorny questions around impartiality for the editors who run Bloomberg News. Following his announcement this month that he will seek the Democrat nomination, Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait posted a memo to staff outlining the possible conflicts posed by Mr. Bloomberg’s…
Goldman Sachs Throws Weight Behind Open Source with Contribution of PURE and Alloy to FINOS
Goldman Sachs has thrown its weight behind the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) with a major open source contribution of a logical modelling language, internally named PURE, and a platform and visual modelling tool that generates PURE-based models, known within Goldman as Alloy. The contribution is designed to encourage banks to further adopt open source,…
Datactics’ Addition of AI to Entity Data Resolution Delivers Significant Time Savings
Datactics has added an artificial intelligence (AI) server to its technology stack and is working on use cases that could save industry participants tens or even hundreds of hours spent on manual reviews of entity data matching processes. The company announced its intent to set up a dedicated AI Team led by Fiona Browne, previously…
Broadridge Extends Asset Management Platform with Acquisition of ClearStructure
Broadridge Financial Solutions’ acquisition of ClearStructure Financial Technology, a global provider of portfolio management solutions for private debt markets, will extend the company’s cross-asset asset management platform and is expected to attract new clients. Broadridge’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology already supports more than 550 hedge funds, traditional asset managers and fund administrators with a front-to-back, multi-asset…