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DTCC Replaces Benchmarks Service with ITP Data Analytics for Operational Performance
DTCC has updated its Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) service with ITP Data Analytics, a service including analytical tools that allow broker/dealers and investment managers to measure and compare their operational performance against counterparties, industry standards and peers. ITP Data Analytics replaces DTCC’s legacy Benchmarks service. It consumes underlying daily transaction activity from DTCC’s post-trade central…
Migrating Data Management to the Cloud – What Can the Financial Sector Do to Meet the Challenge?
By Mark Hermeling, chief technology officer at Alveo. Financial services firms are increasingly moving their data management ecosystems to the cloud. This has huge implications for the sector as highlighted in a recent Market Research Future report that projects the financial cloud market will hit the $52 billion mark by 2028, growing at an impressive compound annual…
SmartStream Combines Air, RDU to Offer Comprehensive Transaction Reporting for MiFID II
SmartStream Technologies has combined its SmartStream RDU reference data utility with its SmartStream Air (Artificial Intelligence Reconciliations) solution to create a new offering that provides regulated entities with comprehensive reporting capabilities for MiFID II. The new solution – Transaction Reporting Reconciliation and Reporting Decision Control – aims to address regulators’ growing requirement for completeness and accuracy…
FD Partnership with Microsoft Promises KX-Based Apps Designed to Help Firms Innovate and Grow
FD Technologies, parent of KX and its kdb+ time series database since June 2019, has made a strategic partnership with Microsoft to expand the reach of its KX Insights streaming data analytics platform as organisations look to modernise data infrastructure for real-time decision making. The partnership includes two elements – KX has agreed to work…
Snowflake Acquisition of Streamlit Will Accelerate Data Apps Development
Snowflake has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Streamlit, provider of an open source framework that enables developers and data scientists to build and share data apps quickly and iteratively, without the need to be an expert in front-end development. The company says more than 1.5 million apps have been built using the framework. Following…
Recorded Webinar: FRTB: What still needs to be done before the global deadline of January 2023?
While implementation of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation has been delayed twice for reasons first of complexity and second of the coronavirus pandemic, the final deadline of January 1, 2023 is less than a year away. For banks in scope of the regulation, the time to put necessary risk infrastructure and data…
The Hokey Cokey Guide on how to Achieve M&A Operational Complexity
By Neil Vernon, Chief Technology Officer at Gresham Technologies. ‘You put your left arm in, your left arm out, in out, in out, you shake it all about’, so say the words of the old party song. It is a similar approach to how financial institutions have merged over the past decade. You put your…
Mining the Value of Data through Agile Data Governance
Agile data governance frameworks are presenting financial institutions with valuable new ways to use their data and respond swiftly to the changing demands placed upon it. They are also offering deeper insights into firms’ own operations, helping them to identify and eliminate emerging risks, shortening time to market and streamlining decision making. While the common…
Alveo Accelerates Data Deployment to Workflows and Applications with Delta Data Integration Capability
Alveo, has extended its commitment to open source technologies with the release of Delta, a data distribution capability. Delta uses the latest cloud latest cloud technologies to accelerate the deployment of market data sets into business user workflows and business applications, and is an integral part of Alveo’s data management suite, which includes Prime data…
S&P Global and IHS Markit Close $44 Billion Merger
S&P Global and IHS Markit have finalised their merger, a little more than a year since it was formally announced December 2020 and following regulatory approval for the companies to close the deal from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the European Commission. The $44 billion merger, the biggest ever seen in capital markets,…