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Tom Raptis Joins Reformis from Refinitiv
Tom Raptis, a former senior consultant at Refinitiv and previously with Thomson Reuters for seven years, has joined Reformis, a business and technology consultancy for the buy-side that specialises in data management, trading platform optimisation, and regulatory and client reporting. Raptis joined Reformis today as a senior consultant based in London. He brings data management…
GoldenSource Releases New Datasets to Help Banks with Brexit Reporting Changes
Software and services provider GoldenSource last week announced the release of a series of new Brexit-specific datasets via its enterprise data management solution, to help banks prepare for differing regulatory demands in the wake of the UK’s expected departure from the EU on the 29th March 2019. The firm implemented the move in response to…
Data Breaches Up 480% in 2018, but is GDPR Compliance the Answer?
The number of data breaches reported by UK financial services firms to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) increased by 480% in 2018, up to 145 up from just 25 in 2017. Is this solely down to the new GDPR regime, or are there a wider problems at play – and how can firms leverage new…
Senior Managers & Certification Regime: Six Major Challenges for Financial Firms
The FCA’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) is topping the list of regulatory challenges for financial institutions in 2019, with the December 9 deadline throwing up new challenges and concerns around the way firms must handle their duties, process their data and implement internal procedures. Martin Lovick, Senior Principal Consultant at governance, risk and…
KRM22 Launches Enterprise Risk Cockpit
KRM22, a technology and software investment firm with a focus on risk management in capital markets, today announced the launch of the Enterprise Risk Cockpit, a real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms. The Enterprise Risk Cockpit is designed to improve data accuracy and steer clients away from cumbersome spreadsheets towards a more…
Counting the Costs and Constraints of Building In-House Solutions
Research commissioned by Asset Control highlights the pain points of updating or replacing in-house solutions, including cost, skills and resourcing, and the difficulty of deploying solutions to the cloud. Headline statistics from the research show 94% of respondents expecting to encounter challenges of some sort when building a solution in-house, and 52% of senior decision…
Gresham Partners with RegTek Solutions for Strategic Transaction Reporting
Data integrity and control software provider Gresham Technologies has joined forces with regulatory reporting specialist RegTek Solutions in a strategic relationship linking RegTek’s Reconcile.Trade solution with Gresham’s Clareti Platform to offer increased transparency and control over transaction reporting requirements. The Reconcile.Trade platform allows clients to reconcile front-office trading records against data samples provided by competent…
TickSmith Partners with Vela for TCA Solution
Montreal-based TickSmith has added Vela’s SuperFeed to the range of data feeds available to users of its high-performance database platform. A project to deliver a cloud-based transaction cost analysis (TCA) solution for a Tier 1 global investment bank was the catalyst for the partnership. According to Francis Wenzel, TickSmith CEO, the unnamed investment bank was…
TTI Summit: Trade Infrastructure Monitoring for Optimal Trading Connectivity
A-Team Group’s TradingTech Insight Summit covered key issues affecting financial markets. These included the options available around trade infrastructure monitoring and the challenges they present, such as network monitoring and timestamping, data capture and governance, increasing crossover between compliance and operations, and maintaining high quality connectivity while moving away from pure infrastructure performance monitoring and…
IHS Markit Extends Use of OTC Derivatives Valuations to Best Execution Compliance
IHS Markit has extended the use of its OTC derivatives valuation data to financial institutions working on best execution compliance. The time-stamped valuation data can help firms monitor intraday and historic transaction costs across interest rate, equity, FX, credit, commodity and structured product OTC derivatives. Laura Misher, managing director of derivatives data and valuation services…