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HSBC Takes on Financial Crime Tech Challenge with AI Approach from Quantexa
HSBC has launched a global analytics platform that identifies potential financial crime by contextually analysing customer, transactional, and publicly available data in order to understand a customer’s global network. The platform, developed with AI solution provider Quantexa, illustrates how firms are deploying RegTech solutions to address the ongoing regulatory focus on financial crime compliance, with…
TradingTech Summit Opens with Focus on Digital Transformation
A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit, hosted in New York City earlier this week, opened with a focus on digital transformation and its impact on business. Simon Letort, chief digital officer and head of innovation at Société Générale Americas, presented a keynote covering innovation and digital change at the bank, and how it is building a shared…
Refinitiv Meets Demand for More Data on China’s Economy and Financial Markets
Refinitiv is responding to increasing client demand for content, data and insight on China’s economy and financial markets with the addition of 300,000 economic data series to its Datastream database, and FX and fixed income data from the China Foreign Exchange System (CFETS) to its Elektron and Eikon data platforms. These additions are part of…
Refinitiv Withdraws KYC as a Service Solution
Refinitiv is planning to withdraw its KYC as a Service offering, most likely late this year, once again raising questions around the viability of the utility model and following Bloomberg’s decision to pull out of the KYC market and withdraw its Entity Exchange KYC and client onboarding solution little more than a month ago. Refinitiv’s…
The Trials, Tribulations and Potential Benefits of FRTB Compliance
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation is more prescriptive than former Basel 2.5 market risk requirements, calls for a consistent workflow across risk, finance and the front office, and needs firms to source previously unused and difficult to find data – challenges that many banks have yet to conquer ahead of the January…
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…