Snowflake Opens Operations in Mexico to Drive Latin America Customer Growth

Snowflake has opened operations in Mexico with a view to expanding its local and multinational customer base in the country and across Latin America. Sergio Sanchez Polo, country manager for Mexico and LATAM sales lead, heads up the operation and will be by hiring across Latin America with a focus on sales. Snowflake now has offices and operations in 23 countries.

Singapore’s MAS Launches Hub to Promote ESG Innovations

Singapore’s financial regulator has created a facility in which FinTechs, startups and financial institutions can co-locate and collaborate to develop sustainable finance products and services. The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Hub also will help startups scale and deploy new initiatives and source help and advice from established financial leaders.

DBS Deploys Nasdaq Surveillance Technology to Support Market Integrity

DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, announced that it will leverage Nasdaq Trade Surveillance technology to advance its surveillance and market integrity efforts. Nasdaq’s solutions will improve DBS’s ability to analyse market abuse surveillance scenarios and detect trading anomalies across equities and derivatives markets as well as OTC FX markets.

The technology will provide DBS with a consolidated view to manage and monitor market conduct, while enabling DBS’ trade surveillance team to detect, investigate, and document a wide array of market abuse through tailored alerts.

SS&C Partners with Coinbase to Offer Front-to-Back Crypto Management Solution

SS&C Eze has partnered with Coinbase to offer clients access to Coinbase Prime, an institutional platform for digital assets. Through the partnership, traders using Eze Investment Suite can manage their crypto trading processes in one place, from pre-trade compliance to custody.

Coinbase Prime is an institutional platform providing secure custody, smart order routing, data & analytics, trade settlement, and reporting. With the integration, Eze Investment Suite users can access a diverse liquidity pool of digital assets, and gain a holistic view of their crypto investments alongside traditional securities holdings.

IPC Becomes Approved Application Service Provider for SIX Swiss Exchange

Communications and networking solutions vendor IPC has become an approved Application Service Provider (ASP) for SIX Swiss Exchange with Connexus Extranet, the company’s performance-engineered financial extranet for electronic trading, which leverages IPC’s Connexus Cloud to provide connectivity to a global community of capital market participants.

The collaboration between IPC and SIX Swiss Exchange builds on IPC’s global financial ecosystem, which interconnects over 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in more than 60 countries.

FlexTrade Integrates Glimpse Markets Pooled Trading Data for Fixed Income

FlexTrade, the multi-asset execution & order management systems vendor, has integrated trading data from Glimpse Markets, a buy-side data sharing platform for bond markets, into FlexFI, FlexTrade’s fixed income EMS.

With the two-way integration, fixed income traders can incorporate and process Glimpse’s aggregated trade data into FlexFI’s Bond Widget. Using FlexFI’s visualisation tools, dynamic sorting can be applied to quickly search and analyse different bonds from the Glimpse data set, to enhance price discovery and deliver a consolidated view of the market for fixed-income trading.

Apex Offers EU Taxonomy Alignment Product

Clients of global financial services provider Apex Group now have access to a new European Union Taxonomy product, which enables investors to assess their portfolios’ alignment with the sustainability classification guideline. The four-step process will give financial clients the opportunity to identify which of their investments are sustainable, manage data collection on the taxonomy’s strict “do no significant harm” tests, gauge alignment and report performance.

Confluence Integrates ICE ESG Data into its SFDR Product

Regulatory compliance reporting and analytics provider Confluence has integrated the ESG data of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) into its Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) service. The partnership gives Confluence clients access to ICE’s sustainability information on 1.4 million fixed-income securities issued by more than 16,000 corporate and sovereign entities.

Eventus Deploys Validus at SpiderRock

Trade surveillance and market risk solutions vendor Eventus has deployed its Validus platform at SpiderRock Terchnology Services, an algo execution and risk management technology provider servicing institutional trading firms and agency broker-dealers. The platform is initially being used for the firm’s client activity in futures and options.

SpiderRock cited Eventus’ ability to handle extraordinarily large data sets with scalable capacity as a key factor in the selection of the Validus platform.

Novata and S&P Partner to Enable Collection and Management of Financial and ESG Data

S&P Global Market Intelligence has made a strategic partnership with Novata, provider of an ESG data platform for private markets. The partnership will provide private market investors with a solution that simplifies the process of collecting both financial and ESG data by making Novata’s platform available for S&P Global Market Intelligence customers to bridge ESG data with financial data to provide a single source of insights.

The integration is expected to help market participants make informed decisions about how ESG drives financial outcomes, and enable transparent communication to investors, auditors, boards and other key stakeholders. The platform is intended to be made available through S&P Global Market Intelligence’s iLEVEL, a portfolio monitoring software solution that enables general partners and limited partners to streamline financial data collection.