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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…
ECB’s Francis Gross Makes the Case for Data Standardisation and Shared Data Infrastructure
Technology has added complexity to capital markets, shifted the human-machine interface, and will soon provide automation beyond human understanding. It could also go wrong and cause an unplanned and unwanted crisis on a scale far larger and more damaging than the 2008 crisis. Countering this criticality and ‘the data mess that is getting worse all…
Fenergo Integrates Innovative Graph Technology in Rewrite of Hierarchy Manager
Fenergo has innovated its Hierarchy Manager solution to deliver an ultimate beneficial ownership and counterparty hierarchy modelling and visualisation tool designed to make it easier to manage and visualise complex entity data hierarchies and associated entity structures. Rather than updating its existing solution, Fenergo has rewritten the hierarchy manager to include Force-directed graph technology that…
London Stock Exchange Invests in Cryptocurrency Startup Nivaura
Nivaura, a regulated fintech company that has developed a platform to automate primary issuance and administration of financial assets through a blockchain infrastructure, has closed a $20 million funding round from prominent partners including the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The funding will allow Nivaura to expand, complete product development more quickly and meet clients’ increasingly…
Broadridge Sets 2019 Targets to Tackle the Challenges Faced by Asset Managers
Asset management will be characterised throughout 2019 by regulatory scrutiny, an ongoing squeeze on fees, and competition that has never been higher. To find out how asset managers are coping post-MiFID II and what strategies they are pursuing, we talked to Eric Bernstein, head of Broadridge Financial Solutions’ asset management business and a champion of…