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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…

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…