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ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: Coming to Terms with Climate Risks
Quantifying risks to assets posed by changes in the climate and companies’ transitions to meeting net-zero carbon goals are being baked into organisations’ risk-management workflows. What many had regarded as a conceptual risk has become an apparent one, as the increased occurrence of severe weather events caused by global warming have led to record levels…
Fusion Digital Assets Platform, Powered by GMEX Technologies, Goes Live with First Successful Cryptoasset Trade
TP ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer broker, has announced the launch of Fusion Digital Assets, its wholesale cryptoasset exchange, powered by trading and post-trade technology from GMEX Technologies, the subsidiary of GMEX Group that specialises in digital business and technology solutions for capital markets firms, exchanges and post-trade market infrastructure. The Fusion Digital Assets platform…
Informatica Integrates Intelligent Data Management Cloud with Microsoft Fabric
Informatica, a provider of enterprise data management, has integrated its cloud-native, generative AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) with Microsoft Fabric, a unified data and analytics product released this week. Fabric integrates technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI, allowing data and business professionals to unlock the potential of their…
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb Form Joint Venture to Pursue EU Fixed Income Consolidated Tape Provider Role
Bloomberg, MarketAxess, and Tradeweb have signed a joint venture agreement to form an independent company to participate in the public procurement procedure to become the fixed income consolidated tape provider (CTP) for the European Union, all of which will be subject to regulatory approvals. Neil Ryan, who has over three decades of experience in the…
ESG Data and Tech Summit Report: Pivotal Year that Reshaped ESG
The past year was a pivotal one for ESG, with bold new regulations and political challenges emerging for market participants. But the biggest change may have come from financial institutions themselves as they signalled that sustainability had become fully embedded within their operations. No longer is ESG seen as simply an onerous obligation, it’s now…
Trading in the Cloud – Has Its Time Finally Come?
By Mike Powell, CEO, Rapid Addition. The structure of capital markets and how they are traded have, to a large extent, been shaped through the technology adopted by market participants and service providers over the past two decades. And while some firms remain cutting edge, many are left operating legacy infrastructure characterised by high cost…
Solidatus Offers Attribute Lineage for IBM z/OS Mainframes
Solidatus has added attribute lineage for IBM z/OS mainframes, enabling users to automatically map mainframe metadata into Solidatus and create active blueprints from which they can derive actionable insights, de-risk operations, access visualisation, and plan for changes such as migrating to the cloud. “I’m hugely excited by this initiative to automate the process of visualising…
Taskize and Symphony Integrate to Streamline Financial Services Workflow
Taskize, a key provider of inter-company workflow in the financial services industry, has announced an integration with Symphony, the market infrastructure and technology platform, aiming to enhance real-time collaboration between operations teams and front-office users. This pivotal partnership was unveiled and demonstrated at the Symphony Innovate London event, 2023. The integration promises to modernise industry…
FRTB Implementation in APAC: Practical Solutions for Outstanding Compliance Challenges
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation is back, with proposals from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) for a new market risk-related capital requirement for banks due to be implemented across APAC over the next few years. Singapore and Japan have set implementation deadlines in 2024, while Australia has pushed out go-live…
LeapXpert Unveils Enterprise Monitoring for Apple iMessage
Regulatory surveillance specialist LeapXpert’s has added a so-called Governed Mode to its LeapXpert Communications Platform, creating an enterprise solution for capturing and facilitating enterprise communications on Apple’s iMessage messaging service. The LeapXpert platform is now able to capture conversations carried out between clients using iMessage with enterprise employees communicating through Leap Work and Leap Work…