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Archax Partners with Talos to Enhance Institutional Crypto Trading and Custody Services
Archax, the FCA-regulated exchange, broker, and custodian for digital assets, has entered into a strategic partnership with Talos, the institutional crypto trading platform. By incorporating its institutional-grade exchange and custody services into the Talos platform, Archax will leverage Talos’s advanced platform capabilities to provide institutional clients with broader access to a diverse range of crypto…
BMLL Moves into Historical Level 1 and Level 2 Data, Building on Level 3 Granularity
Historical market data and analytics provider BMLL, specialists in the provision of Level 3 data, are now offering historical Level 1 and Level 2 data and analytics, built from the ground up based upon their extensive Level 3 datasets. Level 3 data comprises the full order book, and includes every individual message sent to and…
Resilience Amid Conflict: Maintaining Operations During the Ukraine Crisis
When Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, escalating the war that had started in 2014, the humanitarian and economic impacts were immediately profound and far-reaching. The invasion and subsequent attacks caused the widespread destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, and critical infrastructure such as water and electricity supplies, severely affecting living conditions and access to essential…
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,…