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CRIF and Know Your Customer Help Hong Kong Bank with Client Onboarding
Credit management specialist CRIF and Know Your Customer have partnered to help Ping An OneConnect Bank (Hong Kong) to enhance the digital onboarding process for its small and medium enterprise clients. The initiative is aimed at helping PAOB to meet growing demand for quick-to-access banking services. The new highly scalable and cloud-native solution, developed by…
T+1: Why Equities and FX Must Be in Perfect Harmony
By Vikas Srivastava, Chief Revenue Officer, Integral. Significant enhancements to market structure always result in technological innovation to better enable market participants to handle any changes. With the introduction of T+1 for US securities less than one year away, there are multiple elements that need to be considered. For European and Asian based market participants,…
Trading in the Cloud: What Works and What Doesn’t
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. In previous blogs, we’ve explored the factors driving capital markets’ embrace of cloud technologies, the benefits firms are already enjoying from making the move, and some of the obstacles that can derail a cloud migration strategy. What’s clear is that for capital markets, cloud isn’t a panacea but rather…
IPC Systems and CryptoStruct Collaborate to Enhance Connexus Crypto Ecosystem with Enterprise-Grade Data
Communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions provider IPC Systems has partnered with CryptoStruct, a low latency cryptocurrency market data and trading solution vendor. The collaboration aims to deliver enterprise-grade data to IPC’s Connexus Crypto ecosystem and further strengthens IPC’s crypto offering following the company’s recently-announced partnership with Kaiko. Connexus Crypto, launched in November 2021, is IPC’s…
FactSet Acquires Data Management Innovator idaciti
FactSet has acquired idaciti, an innovator in data structuring and collection technology. The acquisition expands FactSet’s multi-year investment program to digitally transform its content collection infrastructure. It also accelerates time-to-market for delivering data sets. Founded in 2015, idaciti applies a taxonomy-first approach to structuring information from company disclosures, regulatory filings, and proprietary document repositories. It…
LTX and BlackRock’s Aladdin Enhance Corporate Bond Trading Workflows Through Platform Integration
LTX, a subsidiary of global fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., has completed the latest phase of its multi-year partnership with Aladdin, Blackrock’s end-to-end investment management and operations platform for institutional investors. This phase focuses on enhancing corporate bond trading workflows and expanding LTX’s network through a platform integration. LTX’s Liquidity Cloud and actionable pre-trade Cloud…
DSB Combines UPI and OTC ISIN Data in User Acceptance Testing Environment
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has extended Unique Product Identifier (UPI) User Acceptance Testing (UAT) into the OTC ISIN UAT environment, enabling OTC ISIN users to start testing combined OTC ISIN and UPI workflows. Users of the OTC ISIN UAT environment can develop and test changes to systems to incorporate the UPI as part of…
The Six Key Technology Challenges Facing the Trading Stack
By Dave Carson, Head of Field Engineering at DiffusionData. The challenges I want to discuss are those that are affecting every trading participant today, including exchanges, data providers, banks and hedge funds. These include: Controlling the Firehose of Data With the rise of electronic trading, data volumes have spiralled. As technology continues to advance, so…
Intercontinental Exchange and KX Collaborate to Enhance Real-Time Analytics for Financial Firms
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, has joined forces with KX, creator of the Data Timehouse and KDB.AI vector database, in order to utilise KX’s platform to offer real-time analytics on data from ICE’s Consolidated Feed and Consolidated History. The collaboration comes in response to the growing challenges…
Regulatory Compliance – a Special Report Published by The Times in Partnership with A-Team Group
The Regulatory Compliance special report published by The Times in partnership with RegTech Insight from A-Team Group last week takes a deep dive into compliance issues on the agenda at financial institutions, looks to the future of regulation, and touches on emerging AI solutions. We’re of course thrilled to be partnering with such a prestigious brand here…