A-Team Insight Blogs The latest content from across the platform
A-Team Webinar Notes Need for Next Generation Technologies to Improve Data Quality
Next generation technologies that support the improvement of data quality are on the agenda at many financial institutions as they look to improve their regulatory response and consider how to gain competitive advantage. Among the technology options, data automation and cognitive technologies offer significant potential, along with managed services and cloud computing. Market appetite for…
Fidelity ActionsXchange Rebrands to Reflect Range of Corporate Actions Solutions
Fidelity ActionsXchange has rebranded to Fidelity Corporate Actions Solutions with a view to emphasising its provision of not only corporate actions data, but also analyst services and workflow solutions that ensure data accuracy and automate the lifecycle of corporate actions. The update comes as financial institutions extend their use of corporate actions data beyond back-office…
Sell-Side Tech – With Principles
Banks are building client awareness into their systems to achieve long-term goals and avoid disintermediation Intensified regulatory activity has heightened oversight of trading technology, particularly within the sell-side community. This development has had significant impact on the skills and structures needed in technology teams. “Technology can give firms a competitive advantage but can do so…
BSO Networks Builds Out Low Latency Network, Services and Solutions
BSO Network Solutions is planning to extend its low latency trading network into South America, implement its cloud-based trading infrastructure platform within exchanges, and provide a MiFID II compliant time stamping solution. While the company is building out its business with services and solutions, its career started in connectivity, when college friends Michael Ourabah and…
Federated Investors Implements Eagle Solutions in Platform Transformation Project
Federated Investors, a large investment manager in the US, is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions as part of a platform transformation designed to support growth and regulatory compliance. The integration of the Eagle solutions will also provide Federated Investors with an investment book of record (IBOR) across asset…
Nikko Securities America Selects Fenergo to Support Regulatory Compliance
Nikko Securities America (Nikko America) is planning to implement Fenergo’s client lifecycle management software across a number of its trading desks. The implementation is focused on helping the company achieve compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know your Customer (KYC) and Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) regulation and will use the out-of-the-box version of Fenergo’s…
Letter to the Editor
From Akber Datoo, Managing Partner, D2 Legal Technology Earlier this week, the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) published final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) outlining the framework of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). While some may consider this as progress, it is unfortunately yet another indicator of the significant challenges the international…
Fidessa Adds Prospector Liquidity Tool to Optimised Trading Initiative
Fidessa has added Prospector, a liquidity tool that helps high-touch traders discover trading and crossing opportunities, to its Optimised Trading initiative. Products already offered as part of the initiative include Fidessa’s Order Performance Monitor, which allows users to monitor live orders simultaneously and identify outliers in real time, and OTAS Market Analytics, which provides insights…
CACEIS Migrates to NeoXam GP3 Accounting Solution
CACEIS, the asset servicing business within Crédit Agricole Group, has migrated to NeoXam’s GP3 accounting system with the intention of operating a single platform that will provide its institutional and mutual funds customers with an improved user experience and regulatory compliance. The platform has also been implemented to attract new client business. The company selected…
Swift Adds Ultimate Entity Ownership Data to Entity Plus Directory
Swift has added ultimate ownership data to entities in its Entity Plus directory and is planning to add more hierarchy data to the entity data in line with the requirements of its user community. Entity Plus was made available late last year to support financial institutions’ entity data management processes and compliance with regulations that…