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ANNA Introduces ISINs to Identify Crypto Assets
The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTIF) have reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will allow phased introduction of new ISINs to identify crypto assets. This is expected to optimise and automate more comprehensive data sets within the ISO standard registries operated by ANNA and DTIF. The…
BSO and CryptoStruct Enhance Cryptocurrency Trading Connectivity and Aggregated Feed
BSO, the global infrastructure and connectivity provider, has extended its collaboration with CryptoStruct, the market data and trading solution provider for algorithmic traders in cryptocurrency markets, to provide seamless low-latency connectivity between cryptocurrency exchanges and to deliver consolidated market data through a single aggregated feed. BSO and CryptoStruct’s engineering teams have been working together since…
DTCC Trade Reporting Analytics Aims to Help Firms Facing Rule Rewrites
DTCC has launched Trade Reporting Analytics and UTI Exchange as part of its DTCC Report Hub pre- and post-trade reporting platform. The new capabilities are aimed at helping firms as they prepare for a series of rewrites to various trade reporting regulations globally. Report Hub is a cloud-based reporting facility that helps firms meet derivatives…
Unlocking the Potential of AI in AML
By Steve Marshall, Director of Advisory Services, FinScan. AI has been increasingly used over the last few years to combat financial crime and money laundering. While it may not have lived up to its original billing as a silver bullet, some key lessons have been learned since those early days. Firstly, while AI has many…
Growing, Not Wavering: Data Suggests ESG is Defying its Critics
A recent survey of hiring patterns among ESG data professionals will cheer market participants who repudiate claims that the sustainable investment movement is on the wane. Asset managers dedicated a tenth of their ESG recruitment expenditure to hiring data integration and analytics expertise in the past year as they stepped up reporting of ESG metrics….
Trading South Africa’s Financial Markets – Technology Considerations, Challenges and Opportunities
The Republic of South Africa (RSA) stands apart from many other African nations, in that it benefits from a mature, well-structured and dynamic financial market environment, supported by modern technology, and backed by robust regulations. And despite various global and domestic challenges and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, the country has managed to maintain a strong growth…
DTCC Agrees to Acquire Blockchain-Based Financial Technology Firm Securrency Inc.
DTCC, the financial markets infrastructure provider, has announced its agreement to acquire Securrency Inc., a developer of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure. By merging industry best practices with cutting-edge digital technology, the move aims to further the institutional acceptance and integration of digital assets. “Securrency is an important strategic acquisition that will give us the technology…
Moody’s and Google Cloud Partner to Build Large Language Models and Generative AI Apps
Moody’s Corporation and Google Cloud have made a strategic partnership to explore a combination of Moody’s expertise in financial analysis and Google Cloud’s generative AI (gen AI) technologies to help Moody’s customers and employees use large language models (LLMs) to gain financial insights and summarise financial data faster. This is Moody’s second key partnership on…
Mackenzie Investments Selects Bloomberg to Manage ESG data
Mackenzie Investments, a large Canadian investment management firm, has selected Bloomberg to manage its ESG data. The data vendor’s cloud-based Data License Plus (DL+) ESG Manager will be used to host the acquisition, management and publishing of multi-vendor ESG data, allowing the firm to implement ESG investing approaches more efficiently and develop more sophisticated ESG-focused…
FinScan Combines Data Quality Experience with Technological Expertise to Deliver Agile AML Solution
FinScan has combined experience in data quality with technological expertise in screening to provide an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) solution designed to help financial institutions develop more efficient AML programmes that generate fewer false positives and support better detection of true alerts. The company is part of Pittsburgh-based Innovative Systems, which was founded in 1968 and…