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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…
Genesis Challenges Traditional Trading Solutions with Microservices Framework
Genesis Global will release AQS, an automated quoting system for fixed income desks, today, with a view to helping clients transform trading by automating internal workflows. The product is based on the company’s microservices framework and can be hosted in the cloud, underscoring growing appetite among firms to outsource key elements of the trading technology…
Governor Extends Compliance Capabilities with Two New Partnerships
Governor Software, a provider of risk and oversight solutions for financial executives, has had a busy week this week: with the expansion of its live version of the FCA Handbook to include real-time regulatory news from intelligence firm Corlytics, and a new partnership with risk solutions provider Castlehill to offer enhanced integration of legacy governance,…
RapidLEI Adds API to LEI Registration Service that Issues Identifiers in 99 Seconds
Ubisecure, a Helsinki based issuer of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) accredited by the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) and provider of the automated RapidLEI registration service that is capable of issuing an LEI in 99 seconds, is extending its capability with the addition of an application programming interface (API). Banks using LEIs in applications and business…
RegTech Insight Awards 2019 – Shortlist Announced!
The nominations for the 2019 RegTech Insight Awards are now closed, and we are delighted to announce this year’s shortlist. Well done to everybody that entered, and sincere thanks to our advisory board for taking such painstaking care in evaluating the record number of entries we received this year. Now in their third year, The…
MiFID II: The True Cost of Research Unbundling – Part Two
Last week we explored the impact of MiFID II research unbundling on the sell side, as providers struggle to carve out their own space in a new and unfamiliar environment. This week, we take a look at the situation from the other side of the coin – how are purchasers handling the change, and how…