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Opensee Platform Provides Self-Service Big Data Analytics for Business Users
Paris-based ICA, a provider of big data analytics, has rebranded as Opensee, marking its evolution from an innovative capital markets data analytics platform to a market challenger. The company’s offer is to make hundreds of terabytes of structured data accessible to business users easily and quickly through self-service data analytics tools. The company was initially…
SS&C Algorithmics Releases Risk Scenario and Simulation Service
SS&C Technologies has released SS&C Algorithmics Scenarios-as-a-Service (ScaaS), a subscription-based risk scenario and simulation service. The first scenario in the series focuses on the impact of pandemics such as COVID-19. The service uses machine learning, global datasets, financial risk modelling and stress testing to create risk scenarios. The pandemic service delivers specialised stress tests over…
Gresham Hires Harvey Colborne to Drive Sales of Data Control Solutions
Gresham Technologies, a provider of solutions for data integrity and control, has appointed Harvey Colborne to lead business development and sales across the UK and Ireland. Colborne has experience of both the buy and sell-side following a career with roles at JPMorgan, Schroders, and BNY Mellon, as well as technology providers Interactive Data and IHS…
Harbr Data Exchange Democratises Internal Data, Provides Collaboration for Data Product Creation
Harbr is taking a new approach to data value with an enterprise data exchange that can be used to democratise internal data, enrich a data ecosystem by adding external data, or monetise data by building a marketplace that provides insight into numerous data products. The London-based company was founded in 2017 to address the problem…
Recorded Webinar: Managing the transaction reporting landscape post Brexit: MiFID II, SFTR, EMIR
The transaction reporting landscape has, for many financial institutions, expanded considerably in size since the end of the UK’s Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 and the resulting need for double reporting of some transactions to both EU and UK authorities. It has also changed dramatically following the UK government’s failure to reach equivalence…
Quantexa Innovates AML Monitoring with Contextual Decision Intelligence
Quantexa, a London-based data and analytics company, is innovating Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring and investigation with the use of contextual decision intelligence (CDI), a means of enriching internal data with external data and building networks of relationships to create a contextual view of a customer. The company says complex financial crime in capital markets, including…
Recorded Webinar: The post-Brexit UK sanctions regime – how to stay safe and compliant
When the Brexit transition period came to an end on 31 December 2020, a new sanctions regime was introduced in the UK under legislation set out in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (aka the Sanctions Act). The regime is fundamentally different to that of the EU, requiring financial institutions to rethink their response…
Brian Sentance Named Head of EMEA at Data Quality Management Platform Provider Datasynthesis
Brian Sentance, former CEO of Xenomorph, is back in the data management business as head of EMEA for Datasynthesis, provider of a cloud-native data quality management platform that synchronises data governance, integration and quality to transform data policy into data operations. Sentance joins the New-York based leadership team of Datasynthesis, CEO Christian Robertson, and chief…
ESGi – an Element22 and Agility Sciences Solution – Offers Buy-Side Firms Trusted ESG Data Updated in Real Time
Data consultancy Element22 and distributed ledger developer Agility Sciences have released ESGi, an innovative solution designed to solve problems of ESG data, such as time lags and accuracy, and provide buy-side firms with trusted data in real time. The release coincides with the first deadline of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which comes…
RIMES Offers Insight into Benchmarks and Indexes with Index Identifier Service
RIMES has responded to customer requests for a simplified process to gain insight into benchmarks and indexes with RIMES Technologies Index Identifier (RTID). The service is designed to address issues around identifying and tracking the huge variety of identifiers used by index providers and front-office information platforms such as Bloomberg Tickers and Reuters RICs. RTID…