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KRM22 Opens Wallet to Create Risk and Compliance Ecosystem
KRM22 is looking to make one acquisition or partnership per month, in a bid to build an ecosystem of risk and compliance software solutions available through a single, cloud-based platform. RegTech Insight spoke to Keith Todd, CEO at the company, shortly after it announced its acquisition of Object+, a Netherlands-based risk management and post-trade services…
Itiviti Hires to Help Bloomberg SSEOMS Users Migrate to its OMS
Following Bloomberg’s decision to withdraw its Sell-Side Execution and Order Management Solutions (SSEOMS) and Itiviti’s offer to help SSEOMS users migrate to its OMS, former global head of SSEOMS product management at Bloomberg, Linda Middleditch, has joined Itiviti as chief product officer. Middleditch has previously held senior product development positions at top-tier investment banks including…
FSB Suggests Reducing Cost of LEIs in Response to Review Finding LEI Coverage too Low
The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) latest review of the Legal Entity Identifier, a Thematic Review on Implementation of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), offers an ‘I said so’ to the sceptics, but also recommendations that should benefit firms using the LEI and encourage further take-up that will drive data standards, quality and accuracy across the…
Neueda Unveils Open Source Connectivity Solution for European Equities
Trading technology consultants Neueda has launched an open-source version of its markets connectivity software. The move seeks to address firms’ growing appetite for trading system components they can build around, rather than build high-performance infrastructures from scratch. The company’s Front Office SDK – available free of charge via GitHub at https://github.com/blu-corner/fosdk – allows trading firms…
Refinitiv Deploys Trulioo Digital Identity Verification Technology to Strengthen Fight Against Financial Crime
Refinitiv and Trulioo, a provider of digital identity verification technology, have partnered to offer access to digital identity solutions that could strengthen the fight against financial crime and foster financial inclusion. The partnership plans to deliver innovative solutions that will help financial institutions reduce fraud and financial crime by verifying billions of customers online while…
FRTB 2022 Deadline Proves Tricky for Firms and Regulators
Global regulatory implementation of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS) Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) may be unevenly paced, creating challenges for financial institutions and regulators alike. FRTB was introduced to fix problems that both regulators and the industry perceived with so-called ‘Basel 2.5’ market risk changes, which were put in place…
Barclays, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan select DTCC for SFTR compliance
As the deadline for the European Union’s Securities Financial Transactions Regulation (SFTR) approaches, Barclays, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan have signed up to use DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service to meet their obligations under the regulation, which is due to take effect in April 2020. Other banks already signed up to the service as…
Iress Targets Europe with QuantHouse Purchase
Australian EMS/OMS platform provider Iress is expanding its European footprint with the acquisition of market data and connectivity provider QuantHouse. The move continues the ongoing consolidation in the trading systems space, and comes less than two years after QuantHouse bought itself out of an earlier, unhappy acquisition by S&P Global Markets. Iress, publicly listed on…
Why You Need to Take Tech Seriously When It Comes to KYC
By Wayne Johnson, CEO & co-founder, encompass corporation. At the heart of any strong Know Your Customer (KYC) or Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programme is data. The ability to access and analyse information in a methodical way that ensures customer records are complete, accurate and, crucially when it comes to AML, compliant with the latest requirements,…
Chronicle Software Releases Market Data, Stripped Back Messaging Microservices
Chronicle Software, which provides Java-based microservices for the capital markets space, has expanded its line of native C++ libraries and microservices to include a market data distributor and a stripped-back version of its Chronicle Queue persisted messaging solution. The two new capabilities – one at the application level and the other at the framework level…