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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…
Why Managed Services Can be the Way Forward in Financial Data Management
By Martijn Groot, Vice President Marketing and Strategy, Asset Control. Data management has long been one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing financial services businesses. Across the sector, change is a given and the resulting data management requirements are a moving target. The latter needs are driven by an increased focus on the…
Velocimetrics Adds Context Navigation Panel to VMX EndToEnd Monitoring and Analytics
Velocimetrics, a provider of business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics, has made enhancements to its VMX EndToEnd product. The company released VMX v9.0 earlier this year, with the new v9.2 building on this offering and making powerful data lineage more accessible and easier to use. Among additions to v9.2 is a Context Navigation…