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Brown Brothers Harriman Evolves Data Offerings with Infomediary Data Solutions

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has announced the next evolution of its data offerings with Infomediary Data Solutions, an expanded set of solutions that brings together data management technology and managed services and is designed to help asset managers and financial institutions take command of their data. Infomediary Data Solutions builds on BBH’s Infomediary data integration…

SmartStream Reference Data Services Provides Derivatives Data for EMIR Refit

SmartStream Reference Data Services (RDS) has released an enhanced derivatives data service providing in-depth insights into futures related transactions and playing into EMIR Refit reporting requirements. EMIR Refit is geared towards enhancing transparency and stability in the OTC derivatives trading market and is set to take effect in April for Europe and September for the…

DTCC Pilot Aims to Further Automate Corporate Actions

DTCC is running a pilot scheme to further automate the corporate actions process. The pilot includes two phases and aims to streamline interactions across the agent and issuer community by standardising and automating the sourcing of corporate actions announcements. This should eliminate manual processes, provide cost savings, reduce processing lead time and mitigate risks. The…

Duco Offers Transaction Reporting Eligibility Validator for EMIR

Duco, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) AI-powered data automation, has released a transaction reporting eligibility validator that provides an independent validation of internal eligibility rules by using field-by-field comparison of individual financial services firms’ rules versus existing ESMA eligibility requirements. The solution highlights under and overreporting using Duco’s reconciliation and exception management capabilities, and regulatory…

FCA Focus on Non-Financial Misconduct Amplifies Case for Comms Surveillance

By Oliver Blower, Chief Executive Officer of VoxSmart. Leading City compliance professionals have been bombarded with reasons to enhance their employee communications surveillance capabilities over recent months, with fresh headlines making the case on an almost daily basis.  Recently, yet another story broke around the threat posed by insider trading, with ex-Goldman Sachs analyst Mohammed…

Survey Highlights Wide Price Differences for Comparable Data

Some asset managers and financial firms are paying as much as four times more than their peers for the same ESG data, according to research that underlines the immaturity of the market for sustainability information. The huge disparities in pricing for data, ratings and indexes emerged in a survey that also found buy-side and sell-side…

ESG Driving Data Management Innovation, Says Curium

ESG is driving innovation in data management processes as growing customer and regulatory demand for high-quality sustainability capabilities pressure financial institutions to adapt. The large volumes of information that organisations need to fulfil their sustainability mandates and to comply with emerging regulations has forced data scientists to devise new ways to manage their content. Furthermore,…

EMIR Refit at T-minus 60: What’s Expected of Regulated Firms?

With the EMIR Refit deadline less than 60 days away for entities within the EU and the UK’s own version set to launch in September, firms are expected to be in the advanced stages of preparation. By now, firms should be close to completion of the Trade Repositories’ six-month User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase, which…

Murex and Alveo Partner to Provide Murex Users with Alveo Product Master Datasets

Alveo, a provider of cloud-based market data management services, and Murex, a vendor of trading, investment management, risk and processing solutions, have partnered to bring together Murex’s MX.3 front-to-back-to-risk investment management system (IMS) and Alveo’s financial data management solution to support client data operations and provide MX.3 users with accurate, dependable and auditable data. The…

Snowflake Partnership Offers Access to Mistral AI Large Language Models

Snowflake has made a global partnership with Mistral AI, a provider of AI Large Language Model (LLM) solutions. The multi-year partnership, which includes a parallel investment in Mistral’s Series A from Snowflake Ventures, will give Snowflake customers access to Mistral AI’s newest and most powerful LLM, Mistral Large, which includes reasoning capacities, is proficient in…