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How to Turn Data Management Challenges of Benchmark Reform into Opportunities for New Analytics
The switch from Libor to new benchmarks under the EU’s Benchmarks Regulation presents a huge data management challenge, but also an opportunity to digitise contracts and analyse client relationships. The regulation was passed in December 2015 in the wake of the Libor scandal, and its deadline is December 31, 2021, when Libor will cease to…
Simcorp Go Live with SFTR Cloud Solution
Danish investment management solutions provider Simcorp has gone live with its new SFTR cloud solution, in partnership with regulatory compliance specialist deltaconX. Forming part of Simcorp’s latest software release, the solution offers SFTR transaction reporting through the deltaconX regulatory platform. With the first wave of SFTR reporting requirements coming into force in April next year,…
DASH Adds Dark Liquidity Aggregation Algo
DASH Financial Technologies continues to innovate with SENSOR Dark, a next-generation dark liquidity aggregation algorithm designed to provide traders with optimal levels of transparency, performance and control as they attempt to minimise footprints when seeking dark liquidity in a fragmented market. The algo sources dark liquidity from significant venues across the US equity market, including…
Clausematch Partners with Aberdeen Standard for Compliance Solution
Clausematch, a software-as-a-service provider for smart document management, has teamed up with Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) in Singapore to develop a buy-side solution for the asset management industry under a Digital Accelerator Program run by the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS). The AI and machine-learning-enabled platform developed by Clausematch enabled ASI to test a…
Blockchain in the Fund management and Audit Industries: Could it Restore Trust?
By Nish Kotecha, Chairman and Co-founder of Finboot, and Bryan Foss, Independent Director and Visiting Professor at Bristol Business School. Not too long ago, Neil Woodford was still regularly heralded as a “superstar” manager and the “Oracle of Oxford”. How different the story is today. In mid-October, Neil Woodford announced that his Woodford Investment Management…
New ISIN/LEI Data Connection from GoldenSource
Enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource has today revealed a new data connection to support the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) initiative to link International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs). The combined ANNA/GLEIF initiative was created to increase the transparency of trading exposure by…
Why Further Brexit Delay Creates Greater Reporting Uncertainty for Fund Managers
By Quinn Perrott, co-CEO of TRAction. There is a funny sense of déjà vu when it comes to the latest twist in the Brexit saga. The trouble is that whenever the can gets kicked down the road, market participants put Brexit to one side and allocate IT, process management and compliance resources elsewhere. Then, as…
Digital Realty and Interxion Combine to Create Dominant Provider of Data Center Solutions
San Francisco-based Digital Realty has won the recent bidding war for European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, Interxion, entering into a definitive strategic agreement to acquire the firm for an estimated $8.4 billion – heralded as the biggest data centre transaction on record. The stock-swap deal will propel Digital Realty into…
Intercontinental Exchange Launches ICE Hub to Support ETF Growth
Global exchange and clearing house operator Intercontinental Exchange, which also provides data and listing services, has launched the ICE ETF Hub: a new platform designed to support growth and improve standardisation within the ETF primary trading market. The Global ETF market has witnessed substantial growth over the last decade, with assets under management exceeding $5.7…
TP ICAP Signs Multi-Year Strategic Data and Technology Agreement with Refinitiv
Refinitiv is has signed a multi-year strategic agreement with TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, to support its data needs for both its brokers and technology platforms. The firm will meet TP ICAP’s application data needs via the Refinitiv Data Platform, and on the desktop via Eikon. Refinitiv will work alongside TP ICAP to…