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A-Team Group Announces Winners of its 2019 TradingTech Insight North America Awards
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 2019 TradingTech Insight (TTI) North America Awards. The awards were celebrated during a lively drinks reception hosted by A-Team president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney after the close of the company’s TradingTech Summit in New York City on June 11, 2019. The awards recognise excellence in trading…
Asset Control Hires Eddie Grant to Drive Managed Services Growth
Asset Control is all set to drive growth of the managed services it brought to market early this year, following the appointment of Eddie Grant to the newly developed role of head of managed services. Grant will focus on delivering the full spectrum of Asset Control’s managed services from hosting and application management to testing…
Velocimetrics Raises the Bar on Real-time Data Tracking and Analysis by Implementing InfluxDB in VMX EndToEnd
Velocimetrics has released version 9.0 of its VMX EndToEnd business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics, making a step change in functionality and recognising the trading industry’s move towards devops and need for an holistic understanding of all data across the business, as well as a detailed view of specific trading processes. VMX EndToEnd…
DTCC Adds Vendor Partners to Help Mutual Clients Achieve SFTR Compliance
Reflecting DTCC’s recent announcement that Barclays, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan have signed up to use its Global Trade Repository (GTR) to meet their obligations under the European Union’s Securities Financial Transactions Regulation (SFTR), the company has named additional vendor partners that it will work with to support mutual clients. New partnerships have been made…
idaciti Introduces Viewer to Support iXBRL Reporting Format
Jurisdictions around the world are beginning to adopt Inline XBRL (iXBRL), leading idaciti to bring Inline XBRL Viewer, a means of working with data from corporate reporting filings, to market. iXBRL combines human-readable disclosures (in HTML) and machine-readable data (in XBRL) in the same filing, creating a new digital reporting format. The format reduces the…
SEC N-PORT Deadline Compliance Met with RegTech
Confluence has announced that those of its clients with a May 30, 2019 Form N-PORT filing requirement have completed their filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Confluence’s clients represent fund administrators and asset managers servicing more than 75% of funds filing Form N-PORT. They have met their Form N-PORT requirements using Unity…
Investment in Regulatory Technology can Reap Wider Business Benefits
By: Yousaf Hafeez, Head of Business Development at Radianz, BT One of the major outcomes of the financial crisis has undoubtedly been the marked rise in regulatory scrutiny. The banking industry, for example, has paid in the region of $345 billion in global regulatory fines over the past decade, according to research from the Boston…
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…