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Refinitiv Partners with Liquid Inc for KYC in Japan
Refinitiv has announced a new partnership with Japan’s Liquid, Inc. to streamline the electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) process for the Japanese market. The agreement will combine the screening capabilities of Refinitiv’s World-Check One solution with Liquid Inc’s biometric authentication service, LIQUID eKYC, to help financial services providers improve their customer on-boarding and transaction capabilities. Liquid, Inc. will incorporate the risk screening…
Danske Bank Implements AIM Data Portal to Centralise and Optimise Reference Data
Danske Bank is implementing AIM Software’s GAIN Data Portal to centrally source, monitor and optimise the bank’s reference data and snapped prices from a leading data provider. Subject to requirements, the bank will broaden data coverage with additional vendors. Danske Bank was looking for a solution that would help it stage and distribute its data…
Fonetic Hires ex JP Morgan and Apama Execs to Drive Global Expansion
Fonetic, a provider of voice processing, compliance and surveillance technology, has made two hires across Europe and North America in response to demand for voice surveillance systems. Thomas Dinneny, former head of trade surveillance at JP Morgan, will be responsible for driving strategy and new business in the Americas, while industry stalwart Tony Foreman, who…
State Street Names Lou Maiuri as Chief Operating Officer
State Street has named Lou Maiuri, previously head of the firm’s global markets and exchange businesses, as chief operating officer. In this role, he will have overarching responsibility for State Street’s IT, global delivery, global exchange, Charles River Development and product teams. Maiuri will continue to serve on State Street’s management committee and report to…
Bloomberg Adds Alternative Data to Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point
Bloomberg’s push into alternative data puts providers including Thasos, Apptopia, TipRanks, PredictWallStreet, RS Metrics, Orbital Insights, OWL Analytics, Predata, Evaluate, 280First and Symphony Pharma on its data website, Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point. Launched in 2018, Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point is an online linked data platform that provides normalised reference, pricing, regulatory, historical and now alternative…
TradingTech Summit Discusses Brexit, Market Complexity, Innovation, and More!
A-Team Group’s first TradingTech Summit under the TradingTech Insight brand got off to a great start with Beate Born, executive director of risk and regulatory management at UBS Wealth Management, providing an inspirational industry keynote on the outlook for risk, regulation and sustainability in 2019. The presentation not only set the scene for the summit,…
BSO Innovation Award Recognises OpenFin’s Disruptive Approach to Desktop Apps
This year’s A-Team Group TradingTech Insight Europe Awards included a special innovation award sponsored by network, cloud and hosting provider BSO. The award was won by OpenFin, provider of an open source, standardised operating environment that allows interaction and interoperability between financial desktop apps. BSO sponsored the innovation award on the basis of its own…
A-Team Group Names Winners of its 2019 TradingTech Insight Europe Awards
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 2019 TradingTech Insight (TTI) Europe Awards. The awards were celebrated during a lively drinks reception hosted by A-Team president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney after the close of the company’s TradingTech Summit in London on February 27, 2019. The awards recognise excellence in trading solutions and services…
Apex Group Selects GoldenSource for Centralised Pricing and Reference Data Services
Apex Group, a global fund administrator, has selected GoldenSource to deliver a centralised pricing and reference data service based on the vendor’s enterprise data management (EDM) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. The fund administrator delivers a broad range of services to asset managers globally and intends to use GoldenSource’s centralised pricing and reference data service to support…
SmartStream Partners with Numerix on ISDA Collateral Management
Financial software provider SmartStream, has confirmed a new referral agreement between its Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) platform and US-based risk technology specialist Numerix. The partnership will support TLM users in complying with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)’s margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. TLM Collateral Management offers an automated data management solution designed to…