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Thomson Reuters Eases the Burden of KYC Compliance with Accelus Org ID Managed Service
Thomson Reuters has set up a managed service designed to help financial institutions and their clients comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. Called Accelus Org ID, the service aims to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of compliance by providing accurate, up to date identity data and avoiding the need to repeat the…
CounterpartyLink Adds Risk Screening to Legal Entity Information Service
CounterpartyLink has augmented its legal entity and counterparty intelligence service through a partnership with RDC, a provider of risk and compliance data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, Politically Exposed Persons protection, corruption, fraud and crime protection, vendor screening and monitoring, and credit risk monitoring. The partnership is a response to…
Opinion: The Evolution of Intelligent Trading
By Mike Powell, Managing Director, Enterprise, Thomson Reuters I was recently invited to take part in a panel at the Intelligent Trading Summit in London – a fascinating topic exploring the current and future state of trading, industry trends, and supporting technology and architecture. Alongside Richard Bell, Fixed Income eTrading Latency, Performance & Big Data…
Azul Systems Solves Java Warm-up Problem and Plans More Java Improvements
Azul Systems has added a solution to the warm-up problem associated with Java applications to its Zing Java virtual machine and there is more to come as the Java specialist turns its attention to improving Java libraries, making Hadoop more efficient and optimising Zing for cloud deployments. The company’s solution to the Java warm-up problem,…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Managed Services and Cloud Solutions Gain Traction in Capital Markets
Managed services and cloud solutions are gaining traction in capital markets, not only because they reduce costs, but also because they offer opportunities to test innovative ideas without the need for capital expenditure. Moderating a panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit, Peter Farley, director at A-Team Group, asked the panellists to…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Leveraging Operational Analytics
Operational analytics are beginning to appear in trading workflows with the aim of mimicking the success of latency measurement and its ability to optimise trading connections for business advantage, but are operational analytics a step too far or can they, too, deliver benefits? These questions and more were raised during an expert panel session at…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Peter Farley: A Hectic Baptism
What a great way to get involved with a new company. After only a few weeks on board with The A-Team Group it was all systems go for our two flagship events in London last week, where we were able to showcase the range of industry debate around the market dynamics driving pre- and post-trade…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Making the Most of Big Data
Big Data is growing in both volume and adoption, but it needs to be clean, synchronised, analysed and used sensibly in tackling business problems if it is to reach its full potential in the trading environment. Discussing Big Data for algo development and analytics at last week’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit, Peter Farley, director…
Intelligent Trading Summit: Implementing an Intelligent Trading Architecture
The concept of intelligent trading is gaining momentum as trading firms acknowledge that competitive advantage is no longer only about speed, but also about a flexible and scalable architecture that can handle Big Data and analytics on the fly using technologies such as in-memory data and complex event processing. The technology elements and people skills…
Data Management Summit: Building a Flexible Enterprise Architecture
Flexible data architecture has become essential to financial institutions seeking to respond quickly to both market opportunities and challenges, but it can be difficult to build. Experts on the subject convened at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit for a panel discussion covering the problems inherent to developing flexible enterprise data infrastructure, as well some solutions….