A-Team Insight Brief
3di Releases Profiler Version 6 with Enriched Catalogue of Alt Data Vendors
3d innovations (3di) has launched version 6 of its vendor analysis tool Profiler, a web-based tool that provides comparative and benchmarking information on market and reference data services, and associated technologies. Version 6 provides an enriched catalogue of alternative data vendors covering multiple industries beyond financial services and delivering unique datasets from non-traditional sources that give traders, asset and wealth managers, and brokers a potential investment edge. 3di developed version 6 in response to client need to derive new insights and expects to cover up to 1,000 alternative data vendors by 2020.
Traiana Releases Automated Post-Trade Service for Equity Swaps Market
Traiana, a provider of infrastructure service for trade lifecycle solutions, has introduced a service that will automate post-trade lifecycle management of the equity swaps market. The Equity Swaps Lifecycle Management service normalises data reported by swap providers and conducts reconciliation and affirmation of daily valuations, payments and legal confirmations to identify any changes to underlying swap attributes. It also improves negative affirmation issues by allowing buy-side firms to view all exceptions in one place. Disputes can be resolved on a daily basis using the exception manager tool. Phase one is live with further phases due through 2019 and 2020.
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Trucost Environmental Data to Xpressfeed
Responding to market demand for unique and differentiated data, S&P Global Market Intelligence has released Trucost environmental data through its data feed platform Xpressfeed. Trucost, part of S&P Global, is a provider of carbon and environmental data and risk analysis. The environmental data is the first of several planned initiatives and releases from Market Intelligence to deliver Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data solutions and capabilities from its delivery platforms.
FactSet Launches KYC Application for Customer Due Diligence
FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications, has announced the release of FactSet KYC, a cloud-based SaaS application that allows clients to streamline their KYC due diligence. The new RegTech app combines KYC robotic process automation with FactSet content and public registries, to improve the efficiency and consistency of the customer due diligence process. Additional features include the ability to apply risk indicators, schedule automated customer reviews, and generate a complete, exportable audit trail.
Velocimetrics Implements Enterprise-wide Data Lineage PoC at Large European Bank
Velocimetrics has implemented an enterprise-wide data lineage proof-of-concept at a major European bank. Driven by regulation BCBS 239, the bank wanted to achieve automated intra-day reconciliation, correlation and trade netting, but was already challenged to achieve T+1. The primary compliance requirement was to show completeness of reporting, although the project is already showing additional value for risk management and operational resilience. Before implementing Velocimetrics for real-time data lineage across the business stack, the bank used large teams of people to work on correlation and corrections.
EBA Warns of £135bn Bank Shortfall for Basel IV
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that the EU’s biggest banks could face a funding gap of up to £135bn in order to comply with Basel IV, an updated set of post-crisis regulations expected to be phased in from 2022 and be in full force by 2027. The EBA estimates that banks could face an average 2.8% decline in their core capital in order to meet the new requirements, which include a 24.4% increase in minimum capital levels and are designed to restrict the use of internal models to calculate risk.
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Partners CME Group
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has partnered CME Group, a derivatives marketplace, to offer its first cloud solution. The move modernises JSE’s market data offering that now includes historical equity, equity derivatives, and currency derivatives in the cloud. The historical tick data will enable clients, traders and investors to assess trading opportunities, strengthen their market insights, improve risk mitigation intelligence based on both market and individual stocks’ past performance, and support compliant reporting with more extensive data.
Dion Global Releases Corporate Actions Solution
Dion Global Solutions has released a corporate actions solution. Already live with two pilot customers, the solution is designed to make corporate actions processing cost effective for the smallest industry participants and scalable for the largest. It aims to decrease manual processing by increasing automation, and reduce risk by ensuring no event is missed or acted on erroneously. Other functionality includes management of notifications from a single source or multiple sources, diarisation of events and related tasks, digital dissemination of event information and tasks to clients and internal parties, and MiFID II reporting of corporate action transactions.
ClauseMatch Parters with Singapore’s Ingenia
Following on from its recent expansion into Singapore, UK-based regtech firm ClauseMatch has announced its first partnership in the region, with independent consultancy Ingenia. The alliance aims to provide ‘Compliance-as-a-Service’ for small and medium-sized financial institutions in Singapore, based on Ingenia’s existing service of developing and maintaining compliance networks for financial institutions who outsource their compliance functions. The firm will adopt the Clausematch platform to create and maintain policies and procedures for their clients. The news follows a $2.5m loan package for Clausematch provided by Silicon Valley Bank to support the company’s continued growth in Europe and Asia.
Coinform to Investigate Ripple’s AML Compliance
US regtech start-up Coinfirm has signed an agreement with San Francisco-based Ripple, the company behind cryptocurrency XRP, to investigate the crypto’s compliance with AML regulations. The move comes in advance of a planned crackdown by US authorities on cryptocurrency exchanges, following an announcement by the Financial Action Task Force report in June of tighter regulation to restrict the role of digital currencies in global money laundering. The new measures will require that crypto assets exchanges comply with AML provisions in the same way as traditional financial institutions.