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Opinion: How Machine Learning Solves Client Onboarding, by Adam Devine, WorkFusion
Brute force can’t solve onboarding. Machine learning can. Here’s how. Throwing headcount at the ubiquitous client onboarding problem hasn’t worked. It’s still a mess. Offshoring just sweeps the mess under the rug, and the expression, “misery loves company” is a good way of describing the impact of utility plays. Every onboarding solution on the market…
KAS Bank Implements AIM Software’s Data Management Application
AIM Software has secured a contract to modernise data management at Netherlands-based KAS Bank, a specialist in securities services, risk control and reporting services that administrates over €400 billion in assets on behalf of clients in the pensions and securities industry. The bank was looking for a solution that would allow it to migrate from…
CounterpartyLink Provides LEI Data Hierarchies that Should Meet the Needs of the Global LEI System
CounterpartyLink (CPL) is building out its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) data on a daily basis and adding hierarchy data to the identifiers. The hierarchy data will help financial firms meet the requirements of the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI for hierarchical structures, and is already being used by firms seeking a clearer understanding…
Opinion: Push Me, Pull You
By Neill Vanlint, Global Head of Sales & Services, Goldensource Manual reminders. Consulting external websites. Receiving files overnight. Checking discrepancies. Manually keying in changes. Alerting compliance. Sounds like data management practices from about 20 years ago, right? Not so. While you wouldn’t dream of following this ‘pull’ process with security data, say to check for…
A-Team Webinar Discusses the Imperative of Change in Client Onboarding
Improved customer service, faster time to revenue, reduced technology costs and the ability to comply with current and future regulations are just some of the benefits of new data management approaches to client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC), but they cannot be gained without achieving organisational change and senior management buy-in. A recent A-Team…
Bloomberg Responds to EMIR and MifID II Consultations With Call for Inclusion of FIGI in Reporting
Bloomberg has responded to a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) consultation on European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) suggesting the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), should be used as an instrument identifier for reporting under the regulation. While the ESMA consultation opened on November 10, 2014 and closes today,…
Avox Adds Web-Based APIs to Speed Up Access to Legal Entity Data
Avox has added web services to the channels it offers for customers to access its legal entity reference data. The services are based on application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to support fast access to entity data. The APIs also allow customers to pull Avox content directly into in-house applications or into enterprise data…
Interactive Data’s Plans for Continuous Evaluated Pricing
Interactive Data, which has historically had strong roots in the back office with its end-of-day pricing services, has been ramping up to provide streaming evaluated bond prices in the form of its Continuous Evaluated Pricing (CEP) service and is seeking to expand its reach into core middle and front office functions within the financial enterprise….
Opinion – BCBS 239 Compliance: Slip Slidin’ Away?
By Jennifer L. Costley, Ph.D., Principal, Ashokan Advisors “Slip slidin’ away Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The more you’re slip slidin’ away…” – Paul Simon A couple of weeks ago, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued their second annual progress report on the adoption of the Committee’s Principles for…
Bureau van Dijk offers Datasets that Fulfil Expected Requirements for LEI Data Hierarchies
Bureau van Dijk (BvD), a provider of company information, is ready to meet financial institutions’ requirements for Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) hierarchy data once the data is defined by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI or agreed by financial market participants for use in the Global LEI System. The lack of defined LEI…