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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…
Bank of England: Machine Learning set to Double in Financial Services
The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published a new report on ‘Machine Learning in UK Financial Services’ that predicts live machine learning (ML) applications will more than double within the next three years. The report is the result of a joint 2019 survey between the two regulators covering over 300…
Widespread Adoption of LEIs Could Save $2-4 bn per Year, Finds GLEIF/McKinsey
New research conducted by McKinsey on behalf of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has found that wider use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) across the global banking sector could save the industry around $2-4 billion annually in client onboarding costs alone. With estimated total industry spend on client onboarding equal to $40 billion…
Operational Inefficiencies Costing Banks $3.3trn: Fenergo
New research from client lifecycle management provider Fenergo reveals that slow and manual onboarding processes could lead to commercial and business banks individually losing $4.5 billion in revenue if they don’t bring their technology and systems up to date. With onboarding times rising by an average of three weeks in the last 12 months, if…
Confluence Technologies Acquires StatPro Group in £161m Deal
US-based ConfluenceTechnologies, a provider of investment data management automation for regulatory, financial and investor reporting, has acquired the UK’s StatPro Group (StatPro), a specialist in cloud-based portfolio analytic software, asset data services and data management tools for the global asset management industry and asset management service providers. The all-cash transaction, amounting to around £161.1 million…
ASG Announces New Model for Data Intelligence
ASG Technologies, at its annual EVOLVE customer conference held in Florida last week, announced a dynamic new trust scoring capability for ASG Data Intelligence, its metadata management solution, designed to help Chief Data Officers provide self-service access to trusted data. With a (patent pending) trust model, the new solution will help data consumers to identify…
Trade and Transaction Reporting Challenges – EU Demands for US Firms
At the upcoming RegTech Summit New York, William Gates of SmartStream RDU will be enlightening us as to the current challenges around MiFID II and MiFIR for US-based firms; as well as giving a rundown of where we are (as far as anyone can really know!) with Brexit, and what the implications could be for…
MPs Call for Action Over IT Failures, Target Cloud Service Providers
MPs from the influential Treasury Committee have slammed the “unacceptable” level of IT failures in financial institutions, warning that greater penalties should be exerted on institutions that fail to meet requirements and calling for the UK’s three major regulators – the Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority, and the Bank of England – to be…
FCA Pledges Major Investment in Data Analytics
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has come in for its fair share of criticism over the years, both in the wake of the financial crisis and in the run-up to Brexit – and as the FinTech revolution sweeps across the global financial markets, the regulator is struggling to find its place in this brave…