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Creating Back Office 2.0 – Reinventing Trade Processing on the Block Chain
By Pete Harris, Principal, Lighthouse Partners Financial markets firms seem to be forever complaining about an increasingly competitive marketplace that is driving down revenues and increased compliance and operational procedures that are pushing up costs. No surprise then that many are looking at a technology called block chain in order to simplify their post-trade infrastructures…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Talking Intelligently at ITS on February 4
With just under a month to go, we’re putting the finishing touches to the agenda for our Intelligent Trading Summit in London on February 4. I’ve waxed lyrical about the topics we’ll be discussing on our series of panels (see agenda here for a recap). But I’m also excited about the presentations we’ve lined up…
Street Contxt Plans February Launch on Back of $8M in Series A Funding Round
By Zoe Schiff Toronto-based Street Contxt, which delivers highly targeted real-time information designed to enhance communication between capital markets professionals, is gearing up for launch next month, hot on the heels of its US$8 million series A funding round secured in December. The latest funding round – supported by the likes of Formation 8 and…
Regulation Review – AIFMD
As January 1st 2016 approaches and regulations such as BCBS 239 and Solvency II come into force, bringing with them considerable data management demands, other more seasoned regulations, among them the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) that took effect in 2013, continue to pose data management challenges. AIFMD was introduced by the European Union…
Collibra win Best Data Governance Solution at the recent Data Management Review Awards 2015
Take a look at the video of the Data Management Review Awards including an exclusive interview with Collibra following their successful win in the ‘Best Data Governance Solution’ category. Video of 149630705
SmartStream win Best Managed Services Solution at the recent Data Management Review Awards 2015
Take a look at the video of the Data Management Review Awards including an exclusive interview with SmartStream following their successful win in the ‘Best Managed Services Solution’ category. Video of 149632783
Eagle Sets out Plans for 2016 and its Part in BNY Mellon’s Nexen Platform Development
Eagle Investment Systems has set plans for 2016 that include working closely with its parent BNY Mellon to take advantage of the investment bank’s emerging Nexen technology platform. The platform is cloud based and open source, and designed to help BNY Mellon clients become more flexible, client responsive, efficient and fast, in many cases through…
Living with Delay – Postponing the Implementation of MiFID II will Simply Delay the Inevitable
By Tomas Kindler, Strategic Services, SIX Securities Services The decision in mid-December by the US Federal Reserve to begin the process of raising interest rates has been hailed in the press as the start of a change of mindset, situating the 2008 financial crisis and the reaction to it as a past event. However, both…
Exchange Data International Adds Reference Data Products to Airex Online Market
Exchange Data International (EDI) has listed its securities reference data and corporate actions data on the Airex Market, joining about 50 vendors of financial services apps, information and reports already offering products and services on the online market. Airex went live with a beta version of its digital information market in February 2015, with the…
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Implements Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management Solution
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, a US regional bank operating across nine states, has implemented Fenergo’s client lifecycle management solution to provide a single view of clients, improve operational efficiency around client onboarding and meet client entity data requirements across a number of regulations. The bank, which operates predominantly in capital markets, selected Fenergo following a competitive…