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Financial Institutions are Moving Towards Re-engineering Their Risk Management Systems – But at What Cost?
In a volatile market environment and with the edict to “do more with less,” many financial institutions are finally launching new efforts to reengineer their risk management programs, according to a new survey by Deloitte Global – with emerging technologies firmly in the driver’s seat. The report represents the 11th biennial edition of Global Risk Management Survey,…
Risk Management for Crypto-Assets: Where are the Pain Points?
By Phil Cotter, Managing Director of Risk, Refinitiv. The recent warning from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) relating to crypto-assets has emphasised once again the importance of a robust risk management framework for banks – but what does that mean in practical terms and what are some of the implications? The risks the…
Mizuho Bank Selects smartTrade LiquidityFX to Power Next-Generation FX Platform
Mizuho Bank Japan has selected smartTrade Technologies, a provider of multi asset, end-to-end trading solutions, to deliver its next-generation FX platform. The bank will use smartTrade’s LiquidityFX platform to centralise aggregation and optimise and internalise the management of its FX flows. This is expected to generate cost savings for Mizuho and create new opportunities for…
RavenPack Offers Portfolio Ranking Tool Based on Sentiment
RavenPack, a provider of big data analytics to financial institutions, has released a portfolio ranking tool based on sentiment factors. Users can upload a stock portfolio and tailor their analysis to address risks detected across 19,000 sources including news, social media, regulatory filings, and transcripts. The portfolio ranking tool uses stock rankings to monitor users’…
ADVA Expands Open Line System to Ease Data Centre Interconnect Bottlenecks
ADVA has introduced an expanded FSP 3000 open line system (OLS), providing customers with access to the data centre interconnect (DCI) OLS that includes integrated optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) capability and allows optical fibre monitoring in a live network and reduces DCI bottlenecks. Hyperscale DCI networks consist of short, wide pipes that connect from point-to-point,…
Arista Networks Releases First Fruits of Metamako Acquisition
Arista Networks has released the first fruits of its acquisition of Metamako in September 2018. The Arista 7130L Series, a next generation ultra-low latency, high-precision network application platform with deterministic 5 nanosecond switching and virtually undetectable jitter, rebrands former Metamako field programmable gate array (FPGA) switches. It also consolidates and advances network applications MetaMux, which…
Derivatives Service Bureau Details Brexit Plans and Next Phase Developments
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), initially set up as a subsidiary of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to allocate ISINs for OTC derivatives under MiFID II, is moving on to ensure the development of its services are in line with user requirements and regulations. It is also keeping a close watch on Brexit….
MDXT Launches IOWA.rocks Financial Data Marketplace
Data distribution specialist MDX Technology has launched a financial information marketplace that aims to bring together buyers and sellers of content in a single cloud-based environment that offers more flexible delivery and commercial options than traditional sources. The new entity – IOWA.rocks – is underpinned by MDXT’s data delivery technology, and comes to market with…
Fenergo Research Suggests Digitalisation of Customer Lifecycle Management Remains Elusive
Digitalisation of customer lifecycle management (CLM) is hampered by lack of departmental collaboration and difficulty in getting senior management buy-in. These barriers to digitalisation result in less than 40% of financial institutions canvassed in a recent Fenergo survey saying they are advanced in their digital transformation strategy. Headline statistics from the Fenergo CLM Report, the…
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…