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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…

Pico Pushes into HKEX, Plans to Add a Further 20 Data Centres in Next 18 Months

 Pico, a provider of infrastructure, connectivity, data and cloud technology, continues to fulfil its global expansion plan with the addition of a colocation facility and direct connectivity to the hosting services data centre of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX). The HKEX services support Pico’s expansion in Asian market centres including Tokyo and Singapore. The…

Symphony Adds Fenics OTC Data to Collaboration Platform

Symphony, the former Bloomberg Messaging Killer that now positions itself as a team collaboration platform, has added interest-rate swaps pricing from Fenics Market Data to its data and applications container for capital markets users. The Fenics Data – swaps pricing from BGC Partners, an affiliate of bond IDB Cantor Fitzgerald – expands the market information…

Refinitiv Puts Data and Compute in the Cloud to Deliver PRIIPs Compliance Service

Refinitiv is building out cloud capability by providing a menu of data and services that breaks down its traditional product outlook. Clients can select the capabilities and content they need, compute is performed in the cloud, and longer term, cloud is expected to unlock some of the costs of platforms, people and processes. An example…