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ACTUS Foundation Releases Open-Source Standard for Financial Markets Contracts
The ACTUS Financial Research Foundation is releasing open-source Algorithmic Contract Types Unified Standards (ACTUS) version 1.0, which will be available on GitHub. ACTUS creates a standard for the mathematical representation of the payment obligations embodied in financial contracts, and seeks to provide the financial industry with a unified, machine-readable depiction of financial contracts for transaction-processing,…
Integral Secures $15 Million Funding from Morgan Stanley
FX trading technology specialist Integral has received $15 million of strategic funding from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. The funds will be used to extend the reach of its FX technology platform to a wider audience of banks, brokers and asset managers. Integral provides a cloud-based workflow management and trading platform that enables FX market participants…
Bloomberg Makes B-PIPE Feed Available in AWS Cloud
Moving with the current trend towards cloud-based services, Bloomberg has made its B-PIPE real-time market data feed available via Amazon Web Services (AWS). The move expands the delivery options available to Bloomberg clients, which now include on-premise, hosted and cloud. Cloud-based delivery of market data services holds the promise of reducing local on-premise processing requirement,…
Thomson Reuters Sets Strategy Following Sale of Financial and Risk Business to Blackstone
Just two months after completion of the deal that saw Blackstone acquire a 55% stake in Thomson Reuters’ financial and risk business, and rebrand it as Refinitiv, Thomson Reuters has put plans in place to reduce costs and streamline its remaining news and information businesses. Some 3,200 jobs will be cut over the next two…
Kaizen Extends ReportShield Service to MiFIR Trade Reporting
Quality assurance provider Kaizen Reporting has branched out to include Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) reporting in its flagship ReportShield service, which will be led by new hire Chris Machin, the brains behind the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE’s) MiFID II transparency service, TRADEcho. Kaizen managing director Ian Rennie notes: “With both buy-side and sell-side…
Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Expand Alternative Data Offer
Nasdaq plans to combine Quandl with its Analytics Hub business within Global Information Services following its acquisition of the data and core financial data provider. Quandl provides alternative data and core financial data from over 350 sources to more than 30,000 active monthly users. The company offers a global database of alternative, financial and public…
Fighting Financial Crime: A Path for Progress
The recent A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York on November 15, 2018 featured a wide range of challenging and sometimes controversial discussions, but none were more pertinent in today’s environment than the in-depth and insight panel discussing the best methods of fighting financial crime and improving technology techniques for anti-money laundering (AML) and Know…
Arachnys Adds Cloud-Native Version of Customer Risk Intelligence Platform
Arachnys, a provider of customer risk intelligence solutions for client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC), customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and Anti-Money Laundering (AML), has introduced a cloud-native version of its platform. The capabilities of the platform address changing market dynamics that are leading financial institutions to focus on five initiatives: real-time…
Derivatives Service Bureau Names Members of Expanded Product Committee
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), which issues ISINs for OTC derivatives, has announced the members that will join an expanded product committee from January 8, 2019. It has also named five trade associations that will join as non-voting members, and transitioned the role of chair from the DSB to two external co-chairs from industry with…
Main Capital Buys Stake in German RegTech Start-up cleversoft
Main Capital Partners, an investment manager focused solely on the software industry in Benelux, Germany and Scandinavia, has acquired a stake in Munich-based regtech software-as-a-service specialist cleversoft for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2004, cleversoft provides cloud-based regulatory reporting services for regulatory regimes including PRIIPs, MiFID II, PIB, FIDLEG and AML, underpinned by lifecycle management…