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Refinitiv Highlights Data Governance, Cloud and Operational Resilience as Key Components of Connected Data and Revenue Generation
Connecting data across a financial services organisation from the back office, through the middle-office and on to the front-office can deliver operational resilience, business agility, and opportunities to generate revenue – it can also be difficult to achieve in a market characterised by fragmented systems, a lack of data consistency, and resistance to change. A…
Informatica Offers Data Governance & Catalog As-a-Service in the Cloud
Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management provider, has released a data governance and catalog as-a-service solution designed to help firms modernise their data and analytics governance programmes. The solution brings together data cataloging, data quality, data, and AI governance capabilities with cloud native unified metadata-driven intelligence. The Cloud Data Governance & Catalog solution is a…
SS&C Upgrades Chorus Intelligent Automation Platform to Accelerate STP
SS&C Technologies has upgraded its Chorus intelligent automation platform for asset and wealth management to accelerate straight-through-processing (STP) and improve integration between the platform and the company’s document automation solution. SS&C Chorus offers standalone predesigned applications for rapid deployment and is designed to accelerate STP, reduce operational risk, enhance digital customer journeys, and speed up…
SIX Acquires ULTUMUS to Strengthen ETF and Managed Data Service Offering
SIX has acquired ULTUMUS, a global index and exchange-traded funds (ETF) data specialist, to strengthen its ETF and managed data service offering. The companies have been partners for some time, with SIX acquiring ULTUMUS from investment firm ETFS Capital. ULTUMUS will initially operate separately to SIX and will carry on delivering index data from SIX…
Financial Stability Board Calls for Action on LIBOR Transition
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a progress report to the G20 on LIBOR transition and remaining issues, noting that with timelines for cessation of LIBOR panels confirmed at the end of 2021 and mid-2023 ‘there should be no remaining doubts as to the urgency of the need to transition away from LIBOR by…
SETL Launches Verafide Digital Credentials Platform for KYC, Other Verification Challenges
Blockchain operator SETL’s Verafide subsidiary has launched its open-source platform for verifying digital credentials and identification on the SETL enterprise blockchain, allowing issuers, holders and verifiers to set up and maintain a digital credentials ecosystem. The Verafide platform is aimed at helping firms fulfill their KYC obligations, adopt more seamless and transparent customer onboarding processes…
A-Team Group ESG Handbook 2021 Details Environmental, Social and Governance Investing and Disclosure
A-Team Group has expanded its portfolio of industry-leading publications with the release of ESG Handbook 2021, a guide to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing, disclosure, and product development. The handbook offers capital markets participants, data vendors and solutions providers extensive coverage of all elements of ESG, from an initial definition and note on why…
Alveo Integrates ULTUMUS Index and ETF Managed Data Service with Prime
Alveo and ULTUMUS, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) specialist, have partnered to bring together Alveo’s data mastering solution, Prime, and ULTUMUS’s global ETF and index managed data service. The partnership aims to enable Alveo customers to integrate index and ETF information more quickly, and allow ULTUMUS’s clients to enhance their data mastering and data integration capabilities….
Trustworthy AI in Capital Markets
By Shameek Kundu, head of Financial Services at TruEra. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing in capital markets. But the sector has work to do to capitalise on investment made, and this starts with making AI and machine learning (ML) models robust, transparent and fully accountable. Ensuring AI quality will be critical to…
LGT Capital Partners Selects SimCorp to Advance Digitisation and Support Global Scale and Growth
LGT Capital Partners, a global specialist in alternative investing with US$75 billion assets under management, has signed an agreement with SimCorp to advance digitisation of its investment operations and support global scale and growth. The contract has a committed average annual value of €2 million and covers the use of SimCorp’s cloud-based investment management platform,…