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Fincapital Deploys iDenfy for KYC, AML in Customer Onboarding
Fincapital Partners, a fintech offering online banking and wealth management across Sweden, Switzerland and Lithuania, has deployed an AI-enabled identity verification and fraud prevention platform from iDenfy to handle the KYC and AML aspects of its customer onboarding process. The implementation is aimed at instilling confidence in the Fincapital Partners’ team, allowing them to provide…
IPC Systems and Celoxica Join Forces to Deliver FPGA-Powered Low-Latency Market Data Solution
IPC Systems, the electronic trading and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions vendor, has announced a partnership with Celoxica, a provider of ultra-low latency market data solutions, to deliver an FPGA-powered low-latency normalised market data feed across all asset classes. The joint solution will offer buy side, sell side, and financial markets application providers access to a single API…
Threadneedle Street Points to Importance of Scenario Analysis
Sarah Breeden, the Bank of England’s executive director for sustainability, last week called on all stakeholders to redouble efforts to curtail global warming, singling out the banking and insurance sectors as key pillars of change. In her grim assessment of the lack of progress in the achieving global climate targets so far, she outlined four…
CUSIP Global Services Enhances Products and Services to Improve Market Efficiency and Transparency
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has implemented a series of product and service enhancements designed to improve the efficiency and transparency of financial markets. Provided at no additional cost to CGS customers, these improvements include an expansion of the standard CUSIP data field, the introduction of a series of counterparty risk reports, and infrastructure improvements to…
SteelEye Partners with Enfusion for Streamlined Order Management and Trade Supervision
SteelEye, the integrated surveillance solutions provider, has partnered with Enfusion, a provider of cloud-native investment management software and services, to provide joint clients with a seamless experience, allowing trade and order data from Enfusion’s investment management solutions to flow automatically into SteelEye’s integrated compliance platform, which recently integrated ChatGPT 4 for enhanced market surveillance capabilities….
FCA Sets Out Next Stages of Data Strategy
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is advancing its data strategy after publishing an update in 2020, which set out a five-year plan designed to make the FCA smarter in its use of data and analytics. It has also established a joint programme with the Bank of England to transform how it regulates, with the aim…
No Question Too Small for Alt. ESG Data Startup Alygne
A startup that lets consumers check sustainability data on the companies and products that they patronise has also begun feeding its content to asset owners and investors. San Francisco-based alternative data provider Alygne emerged from “stealth mode” last week with two products: a mobile app for consumers and a data feed into FinTech Finastra’s investment…
Bloomberg Uses Native Connectivity to Make Data License and B-PIPE Content Accessible to Microsoft Azure Clients
Bloomberg has released a service providing high-performance data to Bloomberg Enterprise Data customers using Microsoft Azure. The service offers access to both real-time trading data and reference, pricing, regulatory and point in time historical datasets via native connectivity to the Azure Virtual Network (VNet). The service includes content from B-PIPE, which was initially made available…
Single Rulebook Teams with Linklaters for UK/EU Regulation Comparison Service
Single Rulebook has partnered with global law firm Linklaters to launch Law Compare, an online tool that helps lawyers compare and annotate UK versions of financial services legislation alongside the equivalent EU rules to manage the divergence of once-harmonised regulation. Law Compare has been developed by Single Rulebook for Linklaters in order to support in-house…
NICE Actimize Launches AI-Based AML Transaction Monitoring Platform
NICE Actimize has launched its Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM-10) solution, which uses AI techniques to apply multi-layered analytics to the AML transaction monitoring process. NICE Actimize reckons the approach is able to detect more suspicious activity while reducing false positives. SAM-10 is an upgrade to NICE Actimize’s existing AML solution, and forms part of NICE Actimize’s Anti-Money…