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A-Team Group Data Management Summit Takes Industry by Storm
This year’s London Data Management Summit was a resounding success, answering the questions of hundreds of market participants working to transform, digitalise and innovate their approach to data management and drive value out of data. It touched on technologies from knowledge graphs to data standards that can help users achieve these goals, and provided actionable…
New York Equity Manager Pzena Investment Management Selects IHS Markit EDM
Pzena Investment Management, a $37 billion equity manager based in New York, has signed up to use IHS Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution to master securities and issuers. In future, it also plans to use the solution as a data hub for prices, accounts and other entities. IHS Markit EDM will validate data from…
KRM22: Addressing the Cost of Complex Legacy Systems
Last week, technology and software investment firm KRM22 announced the launch of its Enterprise Risk Cockpit, a real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms. RegTech Insight followed up with CEO Keith Todd to learn more about why the company is so committed to making a difference in capital markets compliance. Having been involved…
Beam Solutions Issues Warning on Insufficient AML Procedures Across EU Member States
Beam Solutions, a San Francisco-based transaction monitoring platform founded in 2016 by former Facebook and Paypal executives, has warned of widespread Russian money laundering within the EU banking system. In a note published March 18, the software company noted that multiple major European banks were facing allegations of failing to prevent money laundering taking place…
CellTrust Partners with Global Relay for New Voice Recording Solution
CellTrust Corporation, a US-based provider of enterprise mobile communications compliance- capture and security, has teamed up with the Global Relay, which offers compliance archiving, supervision, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions to the financial services industry, to launch a new CellTrust SL2 voice capture solution. CellTrust SL2 captures voice communication and contextual history, provides voice call records…
Brexit Uncertainty: Putting MiFID II Tactics to the Test
Last week, software and services provider GoldenSource released new Brexit-specific datasets to help banks prepare for the worst in the event of a no-deal Brexit on March 29. With the prospect of any deal still very much up in the air, and only 10 days to go till the deadline, concerns are running high. So…
EVIA Calls for Clarification and Consistency Around Scope of MiFID II
Following the German Finance Ministry’s recent call for feedback on MiFID II and MiFIR, one year on from implementation, the European Venues and Intermediaries Association (EVIA, formerly known as the Wholesale Markets’ Brokers Association), has raised numerous concerns around the lack of clarity and consistency of regulatory interpretation across markets. Despite praising the benefits of…
Linear Investments Taps genesis Microservices Platform for Cloud-Based Margining Solution
Linear Investments, which specialises in providing prime brokerage services to hedge funds, has tapped genesis’ microservices platform to develop its Real-time Portfolio Margin (RPM) cash and margin management system. In line with genesis’ collaboration model, RPM was built based on Linear Investments’ requirements and expertise, and will be re-marketed to other clients by genesis. RPM…
Glue42 Contends for the Desktop Application Interoperability Market
Glue42 is pushing into the desktop application interoperability market, contending with OpenFin, and to a lesser extent ChartIQ, and naming JPMorgan as its largest customer. The company started to build the Glue42 platform – Glue for interoperability and 42 the answer to life, the universe and everything – in 2012 and is now on its…
Archax Partners Quod Financial for Trading Functionality
Archax, the institutional digital securities exchange set to launch in 2019, has partnered Quod Financial, a trading platform provider to the buy-side and sell-side, to integrate exchange access with elements of the Quod platform including connectivity, order management, smart order routing and trade automation. Graham Rodford, CEO at Archax, says the company wanted to integrate…