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Corvil Plans Next-Generation Predictive Trade Execution Analytics

Corvil will introduce its next generation of predictive trade execution analytics later this year, in a bid to exploit what it sees as a growing need for more advanced analysis of execution amid an increased as a growing tendency among buy-side firms to use sophisticated tools to analyse broker execution performance. The Dublin-based trading data…

Thasos Looks to the Future

Thasos, an alternative data intelligence firm that transforms real-time location data from mobile phones into actionable insights, has named Chris Metaxas as chief revenue officer. Metaxas comes on board as Thasos builds on growth in 2018 and 2019. Recent milestones at Thasos include partnerships with Bloomberg and FactSet, a new office in New York’s tech-focused…

A-Team Insight Launches Comprehensive New RegTech Suppliers Guide

Concerned about meeting your ever more complex regulatory requirements? Confused over the vast array of opaque offerings available? Flummoxed about what your company really needs and where you might find it? Take a deep breath and relax, because help is finally at hand! A-Team Group, via its RegTech Insight channel, is delighted to launch a…

Shape Releases AI-based Data Monitoring Solution for Data Management and Data Science

Shape, a Brussels-based start-up, has released a data monitoring solution for data management and data science that is built on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and designed to ensure data is trusted and fit for purpose. When used as a data management tool, Shape.AI allows data science and analytics teams to define their…

IHS Markit Dedicates 2019 to Customer Experience, Data Science and Technology Development

IHS Markit is playing into the need for change in data management with a focus on customer experience, strength in data science, cloud hosted services, alternative data and a three-year roadmap that will enhance the technology underpinning its enterprise data management solution, IHS Markit EDM. It is also taking advantage of opportunities in the buy-side,…

Data Lineage is One of the Most Opportunistic Solutions for Financial Firms

Data lineage is a hot topic, but just how hot and what should you be doing to ensure you get it right at your organisation? How can you ensure it delivers return on investment and is, indeed, an opportunistic solution? A recent A-Team Group webinar answered these questions and more, underlining the importance of data…

CFTC Provides Further Brexit-Related Market Certainty

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) stepped into the Brexit debate this week with a motion to provide greater certainty to the global marketplace in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The concern is that in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a negotiated withdrawal agreement, affected swap dealers and major…

A-Team Group Releases Shortlist for 2019 RegTech Insight Awards

A-Team Group has released a shortlist of potential winners for its hotly anticipated third annual RegTech Insight Awards, to be held in the City of London on May 3, 2019. The awards recognise excellence and innovation in the provision of technology solutions to meet regulatory requirements within the financial services industry, and are uniquely designed…

Lack of Senior Management Buy-in is Prohibiting Digital Transformation, Finds Fenergo

Digital maturity is still a long way off for financial institutions, according to new research by Fenergo, provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for financial institutions. The findings of Fenergo’s CLM Report, which is the second in a three-part series, showed that fewer than half (40%) of the 250 financial institutions surveyed…

Willis Towers Watson Selects SimCorp Dimension for Investments Business

Global advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson has chosen SimCorp Dimension to provide a front-to-back system for its global delegated investments business. Serving a global institutional investment community, Willis Towers Watson’s investments business will use a spectrum of SimCorp Dimension elements from Asset Manager in the front office to investment accounting and SimCorp…