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IHS Markit Deal with Cobalt Delivers Innovative Post-Trade FX Service
IHS Markit is heralding a transformation in foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure following a tie-up with blockchain start-up Cobalt. The partners have integrated MarkitServ with the Cobalt platform, and trade data is already flowing from customers and trading venues via MarkitSERV to the platform. As part of the deal, which plans to accelerate delivery of innovative…
MarkLogic CTO Giles Nelson Sets the 2019 Agenda
A year on from MiFID II go live and the fall out is still being felt with investment firms adjusting to research unbundling, trading organisations struggling to achieve complete communications surveillance, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) requiring ad hoc reports. It is also time to move on, set a data first strategy, industrialise the…
The Road to Success: Wolters Kluwer’s Claudio Salinardi
What makes a business chief tick? How did they get to where they are today, and what bumps did they experience along the way? We speak to Claudio Salinardi, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting business, to find out… 1. What was your journey to becoming General Manager…
OTCXN Goes Live with LiquiMatch FX Trading Venue
OTCXN, a blockchain-based capital markets infrastructure provider, has gone live with LiquiMatch FX, an institutional-only foreign exchange dark pool that is embedded in a lit pool and designed to give users multiple trading options simultaneously. With no visible book or ticker, dark pool users are able to trade without broadcasting their activity to visible markets…
Deficient Data Management Contributes to Poor Customer Experience Costing FIs $10 Billion a Year
Deficient data management lengthens client onboarding and contributes to a poor customer experience that costs financial institutions $10 billion a year and impacts the lifetime value of each client. Other headline statistics in a report from client lifecycle management specialist Fenergo show that improving data and document capture is ranked the highest critical business issue…
The Rise and Rise of RegTech: Bringing Asset Management into the Digital Age
By Kevin O’Neill, Global Head of Buy-Side Division, Fenergo Technology is advancing at lightning speed. Blockchain, AI and other cutting-edge technologies have completely disrupted the financial services sector in recent years. Now, as the global banking industry turns its attention to regulation and compliance, the newest kid on the fintech block, regtech, is set to…
Overall Concerns Remain High in Wolters Kluwer’s 2018 US Regulatory and Risk Management Survey
Wolters Kluwer’s Compliance Solutions division in December released the results of its annual Regulatory and Risk Management Indicator survey for the US in 2018. The survey showed a Main Indicator Score of 85, an 18% decrease from 2017. The high score demonstrates continued anxiety on certain risk and regulatory issues that demand close attention. However, the firm highlights…
MiFID II: One Year On and None the Wiser
By Christian Voigt, Senior Regulatory Advisor, Fidessa MiFID has achieved the rare feat of becoming a genericized trademark. In the same way that Xerox stands for copy machines in general, MiFID has turned into a synonym for all financial markets regulation. With the scorecard for its first birthday due, whether MiFID II really is ground-breaking,…
BBVA Compass Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for US Regulatory Reporting
BBVA Compass, the US-based subsidiary of Spanish multinational banking group BBVA, in January announced its plans to implement the OneSumX solution from Wolters Kluwer to provide regulatory reporting software for its US operations. BBVA Compass is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama and has a major presence throughout the ‘Sunbelt’ region of the US, with total assets…
Steeleye Partners with Euronext for MiFID II Reporting
Compliance technology and data analytics firm Steeleye has partnered with pan-European capital raising centre Euronext through its connectivity partner scheme. Steeleye customers can now access to Euronext’s advanced Approved Public Reporting (APA) and Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) services, allowing for efficient and reliable MiFiD II reporting. The APA service is available for firms and Systematic…