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Arachnys Partners Oracle to Integrate Financial Crime and Compliance Solutions
Customer risk intelligence specialist Arachnys has joined the PartnerNetwork of technology giant Oracle as a platinum level member. The partnership starts with Arachnys Navigator, part of the Arachnys cloud-native customer risk intelligence (CRI) suite, as the first solution planned for integration to enhance Oracle’s financial services financial crime and compliance management (FCCM) platform. The partnership…
FIX Trading Community Sets Up Brexit Working Group, Calls for Members
The FIX Trading Community is calling for members to join a Brexit Working Group designed to help FIX members and other industry participants prepare for the challenges presented by the UK leaving the European Union. The goals of the group are to identify and review requirements for potential changes to technical or business practices that…
Opus Offers Clarity KYC to Accelerate Client Onboarding
Opus, the compliance and risk management product provider that acquired Alacra in September 2015, has introduced Clarity KYC, a Know Your Customer (KYC) workflow automation and risk intelligence solution. The solution is aimed at financial services firms and is a software-as-a service (SaaS) platform designed to reduce the time and cost of client onboarding and…
NICE Actimize Releases Next-Generation Integrated Fraud Management Platform
NICE Actimize has advanced its autonomous financial crime management strategy with the introduction of IFM-X, a next-generation integrated fraud management (IFM) platform that allows financial institutions to integrate limitless data into fraud detection systems, develop and run agile analytics, and optimise the efficiency of fraud operations. The platform uses augmented intelligence that combines machine learning…
TNS Extends Managed Hosting and Low-Latency Services Following R2G Acquisition
Transaction Network Services (TNS) will accelerate its deployment of managed hosting services following the acquisition of Chicago-based market data, connectivity and hosting specialist R2G Services. The acquisition also allows TNS to respond to customer interest in working with a full-service managed infrastructure provider and gives R2G the opportunity to offer its customers TNS networking and…
Fenergo Introduces Self-Service Client Configuration for CLM Platform
Client lifecycle management (CLM) specialist Fenergo has taken a step towards reducing the complexity and labour intensity of solutions servicing with the introduction of its Digital Configuration Studio, a low to no-code administration suite that allows financial institutions to easily configure Fenergo’s CLM solution to suit their needs. With the ability to oversee routine CLM…
Equities Trading Solutions: to Buy or Build?
Why you need a mix of third-party and in-house technology, and how to get it right By: Steve Grob, CMO, ION Capital Markets, Fidessa Since the global financial crisis, top-tier equities trading businesses have been contending with a mounting series of challenges. Volumes have flattened. Commissions have fallen. Regulation has tightened. Meanwhile, the rise of…
Packaging and Deployment: There is Another Way
By: Stephen Wood, Global Head of Enterprise Deployment at OpenFin Let’s say you’re running IT for a bank. You will own software. You could build software and, of course, you’ve got a choice of software-as-a-Service (SaaS) options from third-party vendors. But those vendors have to be vetted. Do they meet your firm’s security requirements? Will…
IHS Markit and AcadiaSoft Offer Compliance with Incoming Initial Margin Rules
IHS Markit and AcadiaSoft have responded to ongoing extension of initial margin rules for non-cleared derivatives through an alliance that brings together the former’s information and analytics capabilities, and the latter’s specialism in margin automation solutions. The initial margin requirement for non-cleared derivatives was introduced in 2016, with increasing numbers of entities required to meet…
CubeLogic Adds CubeWatch Sentiment Analysis for Risk Management
CubeLogic has added CubeWatch sentiment analysis to its portfolio of business intelligence driven risk management, workflow and reporting solutions. CubeWatch monitors social media and other data sources, and automatically organises, filters, translates, scores and weights data collected to provide risk management practitioners with insight into market, geographical and climate related events in real time. The…