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Panelists Agree that Regulatory Ambiguity Hampers Regulatory Reporting Efficiency
In a panel moderated by Robin Doyle, Managing Director of the Office of Regulatory Affairs at J.P. Morgan, regtech practitioners discussed potential solutions for regulatory reporting efficiency—and the challenges surrounding them. Doyle addressed some of these challenges when she kicked off the panel, citing the lack of consistency in the manner in which data is…
BSO Partners AWS to Deliver Hybrid Cloud Solution
BSO has partnered AWS (Amazon Web Services) to enable customers to connect to the AWS cloud from multiple data centres, offices and colocation environments through the AWS Direct Connect Service (DCS). BSO customers can connect to the AWS on-demand cloud and on-demand services from 100+ PoPs that are part of BSO’s network infrastructure. The BSO…
Signal Centre Deploys Push Technology’s Diffusion Data Platform
Signal Centre has integrated Push Technology’s Diffusion Intelligent Data Platform into its Signal Centre Trading Platform. The Diffusion platform takes on the burden of delivering information to traders, allowing Signal Centre to focus its resources on evaluating markets, scaling the business and managing customer demand. Launched by spread-betting broker IG Index in 2015, Signal Centre…
RegTech By Numbers: Statistics From the A-Team Group RegTech Summit 2018
With 53,000 new regulations in 2017 alone, the sheer volume of numbers in the regtech industry is overwhelming. Taken from the highly successful second annual RegTech Summit 2018 held in London in October 2018, the following graphic pulls out the most compelling facts, figures, quotes and costs to come out of the day’s discussions –…
RIMES Launches New Reg-Focused Data Feed for BMR
Managed services and solutions provider RIMES Technologies has taken another step into the regtech space with the launch of its new RIMES RegFocus BMR Data Feed, a new service to help asset managers, banks and insurance companies ensure the benchmarks they use in financial instruments and contracts are compliant with the EU’s Benchmarks Regulation (BMR),…
BearingPoint Partners with IBM for Regulatory Reporting
Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint last week confirmed a new regulatory reporting partnership with IBM Services. The joint venture will allow financial institutions to outsource their regulatory reporting processes, and covers both the business processes and technical operation as well as software maintenance and further development. The offering will target small to medium-sized clients, who…
Fintech Advisor Amar Rajani Joins VTFinTech Board
VTFinTech, a provider of index management and research evaluation services, has named Amar Rajani as a member of its board with immediate effect. Rajani is the founder and managing director of Argella, an advisory firm specialising in fintech and with specialist knowledge in research, data and analytics. Prior to founding Argella, Rajani spent 17 years…
Bloomberg PolarLake Upgrade Allows CDOs to Extract More Value from Data
Bloomberg PolarLake has upgraded its data management utility to Version 8.0 with a view to giving chief data officers (CDOs) increased control, quality and insight into their organisation’s data universe. The vendor describes v8.0 as a ‘major update’ that allows users to extract more value and deliver better insights from their data. Current users of…
SteelEye Wins £5.7 million Seed Funding
Compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye this week confirmed the successful close of a £2.9 million fundraising extension led by fintech-focused venture capital firm Illuminate Financial, bringing the total seed funding raised to £5.7 million. SteelEye offers cloud-based solutions to assist clients with MiFID II, MAR, EMIR, Dodd Frank and other international regulatory compliance…
RegTech Summit New York: Industry Leaders Agree on Importance of Collaboration
At the highly successful second annual RegTech Summit in New York on the 15th November, a selection of senior industry leaders came together in the first session to discuss the hard questions facing the industry. Where is innovation coming from? What barriers are preventing the adoption of RegTech? What are the best ways to minimise…