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Identifying and Verifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners: Getting the Full Picture, Fast
By Paul Charmatz, Managing Director, encompass The increasing burden of identifying and verifying ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) of entities is a challenge faced by all regulated firms. However, Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations that enforce corporate transparency by identifying UBOs can reduce the risk of corruption and the cost of compliance. Firms undertaking appropriate due…
Axiomsl Partners Genpact to Offer Automated Risk Modelling for IFRS 9
AxiomSL has partnered Genpact, a professional services firm providing digital transformation, to automate and execute bespoke models for IFRS 9, the International Financial Reporting Standard that addresses accounting for financial instruments. The solution industrialises the risk modelling process and combines all the building blocks and calculation flows for IFRS 9 in an end-to-end process. The…
Testing Times for Algo Trading
When the EU’s wide-ranging Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) regulation came into force on January 3, 2018, traders did their best to deliver on its transparency demands and ensure they provided best execution on every trade in Europe, across all asset classes. But in justifying their actions to regulators and clients, firms…
Fidessa Plot Thickens
Fidessa has revealed that ION Trading, a vendor of trading software, and SS&C Technologies, a provider of investment management software and services, are the new suitors attempting to woo the firm away from its acquisition deal with Temenos, which was due to be voted in today – but as competition escalates, who will come out…
ITRS Adds Integrations to Monitor Big Data Platforms, Container Technologies to Follow
ITRS has added a set of six integrations to its Geneos solution that allow users to monitor open source, big data technologies – including Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and Elasticsearch – and troubleshoot, analyse and optimise the performance of applications running on each of these big data stacks. The company is also working on…
Trading Technologies Adds Connectivity Services in Tokyo
Trading Technologies (TT) has strengthened its position in Asia-Pacific with the introduction of execution and client connectivity services in Tokyo available via its TT platform, which provides accessibility to low-latency execution through the company’s worldwide network of colocated data centres. The connectivity covers Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) through the JPX colocation space, and proximity connectivity…
CQG Adds Quantitative Brokers’ Best Execution Algos to its Trading Platform
Quantitative Brokers (QB) has partnered CQG to offer its best execution algorithms for futures trading on the CQG platform. Guy Cirillo, head of partnerships sales at QB, an independent provider of algorithms and data driven analytics to clients in the futures and US cash treasury markets, says: “As one of few independent providers of fixed…
Fidessa Delays Temenos Deal as Late Bidders Join the Party
By Lauren McAughtry Fidessa has postponed its shareholder vote on the £1.4 billion cash offer from Temenos after receiving approaches from two separate, as yet undisclosed third parties, who are each considering making an offer for the firm at a premium to the Temenos bid. Under the Temenos offer of February 20th, which had the…
Unlocking the Value of New Data Sources
By: Martijn Groot, Vice President, Product Management, Asset Control A growing range of innovative data sources, from sentiment analysis to satellite imagery, is adding depth to traditional data resources and unlocking opportunities to gain new insights through machine learning, correlation and pattern spotting – insights that can improve time to market and drive down costs….
Provectus Offers GDPR Solution Based on Distributed Key Management and Blockchain
Provectus will bring an automated General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance solution to market this month. The solution focuses on data related aspects of the regulation, particularly interactions between individuals and organisations, and is based on distributed key management and blockchain based audit. The solution is designed for start-ups and small to medium sized businesses…