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GLEIF Adds Two Validation Agents in Drive to Increase Global LEI Adoption
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) has added two validation agents to its LEI issuance scheme in recent weeks, easing adoption of the identifier and extending its reach in Africa. The foundation has also published its 2020 annual report, noting a rise in LEI numbers and a 2021 focus on the validation agent role introduced in…
SS&C Expands APAC Customer Base with Win at KIM Vietnam Fund Management
KIM Vietnam Fund Management (KIM Vietnam) has selected SS&C Technologies’ Eze order management system to support its operations. The fund manager was established in October 2020 and manages eight investment funds from Korea, Japan and Europe. Most recently, it expanded with the launch of new funds in Vietnam. “We were looking for an experienced investment…
SimCorp COO Steps Up to Role of CEO as Company Transforms to Technology-Enabled Service Provider
Change at the top as Christian Kromann, SimCorp COO and member of the executive management board since 2019, succeeds long-standing CEO Klaus Holse. The change takes effect tomorrow, 2 September 2021, and marks the end of an era for Holse, who has led the company for nine years. SimCorp says that over the past two…
Sova Capital Selects Appway for Onboarding and KYC Refresh
Sova Capital has selected Appway, a provider of workflow orchestration, to provide solutions for a digital onboarding and KYC refresh. Sova will streamline its workflows using Appway’s Onboarding for Wealth, KYC and Regulatory Review solutions, and will support direct client interactions with Appway’s Client Engagement Hub. Sova Capital is an FCA authorised and regulated broker…
The Rise and Rise of the Financial Data Marketplace
By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. Data is often cited as the most essential resource in today’s global economy, with many of the world’s most valuable companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet profiting massively from how they collect, use and sell data. In financial markets, investment and trading firms have traditionally sourced…
Data integrity: Your key to confidence in a complex regulatory environment
Despite the recent challenges of the Covid pandemic, regulators have made it clear that they will not accept reporting errors, particularly those that are related to data. Enforcement is more stringent, scrutiny is more in-depth, and the pressure is on to ensure – and demonstrate – that the data underpinning your reporting and activities is…
Facteus Partners Snowflake to Migrate Sensitive Data to the Snowflake Data Cloud
Facteus, a provider of actionable insights from sensitive data, has joined Snowflake’s partner network with a focus on enabling financial services organisations to use its Mimic synthetic data engine and data enrichment services to transform, enhance, and migrate sensitive data to the Snowflake Data Cloud. Mimic is installed behind an organisation’s firewall and uses proprietary…
Delta Capita and QAssure Partner to Drive Innovation
Delta Capita, a provider of managed services, technology solutions and consulting to financial institutions, has partnered QAssure Technologies, an independent software testing company headquartered in Singapore, to deliver an open innovation platform designed to accelerate innovation and address the challenges that delay innovation, such as operational complexity and ever-changing regulation. The companies say proof of…
Buy-Side Firms Report Data Management Challenges and Solutions in Outsourcing
Some 86% of decision makers in buy-side financial firms say their organisation has a significant data management challenge, with 28% citing a fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest challenge they face. A further 8% have a problem with IT bandwidth, stating: “Our IT teams…
RBC Wealth Management US Selects Broadridge Platform for Technology Transformation
RBC Wealth Management-U.S. has selected Broadridge Financial Solutions wealth management platform to power its growing US business. The selection is part of a multi-year technology transformation at the wealth management firm and is the latest in a series of investments in tools and services. The firm will also migrate to Broadridge’s next-generation asset servicing platform….