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Fenergo Research Finds Lack of Strategic Data Management in Client Onboarding
Fenergo has published the final instalment of its three-part Client Lifecycle Management Trends Report – Disrupt the Disrupters. Headline statistics show 33% of the C-suite banking executives surveyed for the report have not invested in any technology to improve client onboarding, despite 99% agreeing that underinvestment in technology directly impacts onboarding and retention. Only 15%…
Fenergo Finds Outdated Technology Preventing Investment in Disruptive Technologies
Fenergo has published the final installment of its three-part Client Lifecycle Management Trends Report – Disrupt the Disrupters and the findings are rather gloomy in an industry that needs to drive towards digitalisation to sustain success. According to the research, 20% of C-suite executives in banks say the lack of maturity of their technology infrastructure…
Horizon Software Names Fabrice Fischer as Head of APAC Region
Horizon Software, a provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, has named Fabrice Fischer as head of its APAC region. Fischer will focus on consolidating the company’s position in APAC, paying particular attention to high-growth markets in China and the ASEAN countries. Fischer has spent over two decades in financial markets and IT, working…
How Process Mapping is the Starting Point for Effective KYC Automated Solutions
By Oliver Parris, Pre-Sales Consultant, encompass corporation. Your business knows that process automation will give you a strategic advantage but how do you begin to create this vision? How is all the detail of your complex Know Your Customer (KYC) process accurately captured in order to form a foundation for the journey towards automation? What…
Derivatives Service Bureau Calls for Industry Input to 2019 Consultation
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has opened its 2019 consultation with a focus on getting industry feedback on operations such as data submission enhancements, services such as data flow rationalisation, technical issues including infrastructure and workflows, and legal aspects including the fee survey and user agreement forum. The consultation is seeking responses from both direct…
IHS Markit Builds on Counterparty Manager to Deliver Onboarding Accelerator
IHS Markit has built out its Counterparty Manager service to deliver Onboarding Accelerator, a solution designed to help banks and other service providers open accounts with institutional clients more quickly and ultimately in one day. The accelerator’s technology is based on the company’s Counterparty Manager service that is used by 12,000 buyside customers and over…
IHS Markit Releases Accelerator with End Goal of Same-day Client Onboarding
IHS Markit has released Onboarding Accelerator, a solution to help banks and other service providers open accounts with institutional clients more quickly and ultimately in one day. The company says that, on average, the onboarding process including collection of all required information to satisfy Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), credit, legal and tax…
Fenergo Builds National KYC Utility with Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions
The Kingdom of Bahrain has set out to improve financial institutions’ client onboarding and minimise fraud through a partnership with Fenergo. Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions (BENEFIT) is working with the vendor to design and implement a national Know Your Customer (KYC) utility that incorporates blockchain technology. The utility platform will support sectors including…
Annaly Capital Management Implements CuriumEDM to Drive Efficiency and Transparency
Annaly Capital Management, a New York based diversified capital manager, has implemented Curium Data System’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution as part of a multi-phased technology initiative designed to drive operational efficiencies and promote transparency across the company’s platform. Don Choe, chief technology officer at Annaly, says the firm evaluated numerous master data management products…
ICAP Information Expands Data Products Offer with EURO IRO and Global Inflation Datasets
ICAP Information, part of TP ICAP, has extended its data products offer with the release of datasets covering EURO Interest Rate Options (IRO) and Global Inflation. By making these datasets commercially available for the first time, TP ICAP aims to provide market participants with greater transparency in a traditionally opaque asset class. The information…