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Solidatus Outlines Data Blueprint for Better Contextual Decisions
Recent years of disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war and climate change have accelerated the journey to data digitalisation and making better data-driven decisions – but what are the key steps along the way and how can firms use disruption as an opportunity to reimagine their data? Philip Dutton, co-founder and co-CEO at...
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ESGi Embeds LEI in ESG Regulatory Reporting Platform
ESGi, a provider of trusted ESG data for the investment industry, has embedded Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) into its platform, taking advantage of the ISIN to LEI link initiated by the Global LEI Foundation (GLIEF) and helping buy-side firms identify which companies products are exposed to. The ESGi platform has been developed as a company...
Data Management Summit: Adapting to Changing Regulations
The fast-changing nature of regulatory reporting is placing ever-increasing burdens on financial institutions that must decide how to onboard and manage the data necessary for compliance. The challenges don’t end there – firms must also decide whether they invest in the infrastructure to manage those new obligations or outsource to service providers, with the loss...
Solidatus Outlines Data Blueprint for Better Contextual Decisions
Recent years of disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war and climate change have accelerated the journey to data digitalisation and making better data-driven decisions – but what are the key steps along the way and how can firms use disruption as an opportunity to reimagine their data? Philip Dutton, co-founder and co-CEO at...
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Encompass Forms Transformation Team to Help Banks Drive KYC Automation Initiatives
Encompass, a provider of a Know Your Customer (KYC) automation platform, has set up a transformation team charged with ensuring banks reap the benefits of automation initiatives. The team will help companies define what success means and facilitate organisational alignment required to achieve KYC transformation. Encompass transformation directors include former Barclays senior executive Howard Wimpory,…
Bloomberg Releases Price Transparency Data Solution for SEC Rule 2a-5
Bloomberg has released a price transparency data solution aimed at helping clients tackle the regulatory challenges presented by SEC Rule 2a-5’s requirements for readily available market quotations. The solution is powered by BVAL, Bloomberg’s evaluated pricing service, and is available to BVAL customers ahead of the compliance data of 8 September, 2022 for new SEC…
Bloomberg Releases New Common Data Format for LEIs
Bloomberg has released the common data format 3.1 (CDF 3.1) for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs). The latest CDF published by the Global LEI Foundation includes six entity category data fields that depict the type of legal entity, such as investment fund or government entity, as well as residential government entities, types of fund relationships and…
Refinitiv Makes Quant Data Available on Snowflake Data Cloud
Refinitiv, an LSEG business, has made its quantitative data available on Snowflake’s financial services data cloud, allowing asset managers and hedge funds to access the data alongside existing vendor and proprietary data on the Snowflake data cloud. The Refinitiv data includes a repository of 60-plus financial data sets, quantitative alpha models and other third-party and…
Fenergo Acquires Transaction Monitoring Market Entrant Sentinels
Fenergo has acquired Sentinels, an anti-money laundering (AML) transaction monitoring market entrant with artificial intelligence (AI) based technology. As a result of the deal, Fenergo’s clients and financial institutions will be able to combine rich KYC profiles with client behavioural data for continuous and granular KYC monitoring. Marc Murphy, CEO of Fenergo, comments: “Our shared…
DSB Publishes Final Report on UPI Legal Terms and Conditions Consultation
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published the final report on its UPI legal terms and conditions consultation and draft user legal documentation. The report focuses on industry feedback received on the consultation paper and confirms the legal provisions and associated mechanisms to be taken forward with respect to DSB legal documentation. Stakeholder feedback to…
ICE Releases Data Solution for EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has released a data service designed to help clients comply with the Principal Adverse Impacts (PAIs) element of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The ICE SFDR PAI solution offers users event-triggered updates for all the mandatory adverse sustainability indicators applicable to investments in companies, sovereigns and supranationals. The EU’s PAI…
Many Firms Are Not Data-Ready for SFDR Level 2
Many financial institutions have yet to grasp the data implications of the European Union’s ESG reporting regulations, while others are scrambling to put in place processes to comply with the developing set of disclosure rules. Read the full story on ESG Insight here.
Deutsche Börse Acquires Kneip Fund Data Manager
Deutsche Börse is close to acquiring 100% of Luxembourg-based fund data manager Kneip, expanding its offering in the asset management service space. Established in 1993, Kneip manages investor disclosure and data publication for more than 10,000 funds in over 40 countries, servicing over 30% of EU-based fund ISINS. Kneip will be integrated with the German…
New ISO Standard Extends Use of LEI-Based Digital Identity Tools
A recently published ISO standard, ISO 5009, has the potential to extend the utility and value of Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) based digital identity tools by facilitating the inclusion of ‘official organisational role’ detail within them in a consistent manner. ISO 5009 paves the way for these tools – such as verifiable LEI (vLEI) credentials…
Derivatives Service Bureau Sets Timeline for 2022 OTC ISIN Consultation
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has set out the timeline for the 2022 industry consultation related to 2023 OTC ISIN and CFI service provision. The OTC ISIN consultation paper will be published on 29 April 2022, with industry being able to respond until 5pm UTC on 30 May 2022. The final results of the consultation…
GLEIF Releases ebook The vLEI: Introducing Digital I.D. for Legal Entities Everywhere
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has released an ebook, The vLEI: Introducing Digital I.D. for Legal Entities Everywhere. The ebook promotes use of the verifiable LEI (vLEI), which supports digitised organisational identity to meet global interest in automated authentication and verification of legal entities across industries including financial services. The ebook presents an…
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,…
Bank of England and FCA Artificial Intelligence Public-Private Forum Publishes Final Report
The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority’s Artificial Intelligence Public-Private Forum (AIPPF), which was set up in October 2020 to share information and understand the practical challenges of using AI within financial services, has published its final report. The report focuses on three areas of potential risk in AI systems – data, model risk,…
Refinitiv AI Alerts Provide Actionable Market Insights for Financial Professionals
Refinitiv, an LSEG business, has launched Refinitiv AI Alerts, a market data powered intelligent assistant available in Microsoft Teams. The solution provides personalised, timely and actionable market insights for financial professionals including asset managers, investment bankers, analysts, wealth managers, and traders. It has been built in collaboration with ModuleQ, a leader in human-centered AI, with…
Latest people
Gresham Technologies Strengthens North America Sales Team
Gresham Technologies has named Rob McGowan as senior sales executive in North America as the company expands in the region following its June 2021 acquisition of Electra Information Systems. McGowan joined Gresham in the first quarter of this year and is based in the company’s New York office. He joined from Duco, and previously held…
FINBOURNE Names Robert Byrne as CTO
FINBOURNE Technology, provider of the LUSID cloud-native, API-first investment data management platform, has appointed Robert Byrne as chief technology officer. The company says the appointment marks the next phase of growth for the SaaS scale-up, which now stands at over 140 employees globally, and coincides with FINBOURNE’s recent expansion into North America and Asia Pacific….
Broadridge Names Stephan Müller as Managing Director for Germany
Broadridge has appointed Stephan Müller as managing director for Germany. Based in Frankfurt, Müller will join Broadridge’s international leadership team and will be responsible for leading and growing Broadridge’s overall business in Germany across all solution lines in its global technology and operations portfolio, and its investor communication solutions. He will also manage Broadridge’s Payments-as-a-Service…
Delta Capita Appoints Steven Hargreaves as Head of UK Consulting
Delta Capita, a capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider, has appointed Steve Hargreaves as head of consulting, UK. The company’s mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain, with the role of the consulting business being to create long-term partnerships with financial services clients, design and deliver the change they need, and…
KX Expands Global Product Strategy Team
KX has added Malcolm (aka Barry) Johnson and Charles Gregory to its product strategy team for financial services. Johnson takes the role of business development strategist and Gregory vice president of product management. Their remit is to further develop the KX technology roadmap to deliver against the evolving analytics needs of financial services organisations. Johnson…
Encompass Appoints Banking Industry Veteran Doris Honold to Board
Encompass, a provider of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) software, has appointed banking industry veteran Doris Honold to its board. Honold has over 25 years of financial services experience, working in various executive roles across Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Singapore, Tokyo and London, where she is now based. Her career includes 12 years…
SmartSearch Appoints Former Dow Jones Executive as CEO
SmartSearch, an anti-money laundering specialist using electronic entity verification, has named Guy Harrison as CEO with responsibility to drive the company’s strategic growth plan. Harrison joins from Dow Jones, where he was general manager of the company’s risk and compliance business. He takes over the CEO role from SmartSearch CEO and founder John Dobson, who…
NeoXam Names Former State Street COO as Managing Director for EMEA West
NeoXam has named former State Street COO France, Bruno Noyon, as managing director for the EMEA West region. Noyon joins NeoXam having most recently been managing director of IQ-EQ France and CEO of Equitis Gestion. Prior to this, he spent over 15 years as COO and senior vice president of State Street’s Global Servicing business…
Encompass Hires VP of Customer Success and Delivery
Encompass, a provider of automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, continues to build its executive team with the addition of Nicola Pickering to the newly created role of vice president of customer success and delivery. She has worked across client success management, programme delivery and product design, and will be responsible for ensuring an evolving…
Encompass Strengthens Executive Team to Support Entry into North America
Encompass, a provider of automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has added two members to its executive team to support growth plans. Alan Samuels, previously head of products at the company, and Magalie Pimentel, former head of marketing, have been promoted to vice president, product and vice president, marketing respectively. As well as overseeing the…
Delta Capita Names Ex-Fenergo and Avox Exec Oliver White as Head of CLM Sales
Delta Capita, a provider of managed services, technology solutions and consulting, has appointed Oliver White as head of sales with a focus on the company’s Karbon end-to-end client lifecycle management (CLM) proposition. White joins Delta Capita from Enveil, where he opened and led the London office for the Washington-based privacy enhancing technology company. Prior to…
KX Names ex-TIBCO Executive Mark Bannon as President of Sales, North America
Mark Bannon has joined KX as president of sales, North America, with responsibility for the company’s growth in the region. He will partner the North America sales organisation across finance and other industries to meet growing need for ultra-high performance, real-time data analytics. Bannon joins KX from TIBCO and brings a mix of deep industry…
GoldenSource Hires ex-ION Director to Lead OnDemand Managed Service Solution
GoldenSource has appointed Xavier Gerardin, formerly lead of hosted services at ION, as global head of its OnDemand solution, a cloud-based managed service that provides hosting, technical and business assistance services for the company’s EDM clients. With 20 years’ experience in capital markets, including managing over 100 financial software programmes, Gerardin’s responsibility at GoldenSource is…
NeoXam Names Mark Hembury as Head Of Sales for DACH and CEE Regions
NeoXam has named former SIX Financial Information managing director, Mark Hembury, as head of sales for the DACH – Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, and CEE Central and Eastern Europe regions. Hembury held several senior roles across a six-year period at SIX and previously worked at Thomson Reuters, Moody’s Investor Services, and Reuters. At NeoXam,…
Broadridge Hires Ian Strudwick to Lead Expansion Strategy in APAC
Broadridge has appointed Ian Strudwick as general manager and head of APAC as part of its strategy to capitalise on opportunities for business growth in the post-pandemic recovery and demonstrate commitment to the region. Strudwick brings 23 years of experience in the financial services and technology sector to Broadridge and joins from TD Securities, where…
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Upcoming Webinar: A practical guide to dual UK and EU regulatory reporting as the Temporary Permission Regime comes to a close
Date: 19 July 2022 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The Temporary Permission Regime (TPR) allowing capital markets participants in the European Economic Area (EEA) to continue to operate in the UK post Brexit will be withdrawn by the end of 2023, calling on firms that want to stay…
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ESG Data & Tech Summit
The inaugural ESG Data & Tech Summit will explore challenges around assembling and evaluating ESG data for reporting and the impact of regulatory measures and industry collaboration on transparency and standardisation efforts. Expert speakers will address how the evolving market infrastructure is developing and the role of new technologies and alternative data in improving insight and filling data gaps.
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ESG Data Handbook 2022
The ESG landscape is changing faster than anyone could have imagined even five years ago. With tens of trillions of dollars expected to have been committed to sustainable assets by the end of the decade, it’s never been more important for financial institutions of all sizes to stay abreast of changes in the ESG data…
Top White Papers
B2B Data Marketplaces and Beyond
Financial institutions and corporations often generate huge quantities of data as a by product of their core activities. This data – details of historical transactions, customer interactions and metadata for referring to instruments, counterparties or entities – can provide valuable insights for industry participants, and form the basis of a meaningful data sales business. But...
Sanctions Screening for Indirect Investments – The Buy Side’s New Compliance Challenge
The global political climate over the past few years has sparked a jump in the use of sanctions to attempt to influence the behaviour of players in the geopolitical landscape. While sell-side firms are familiar with sanctions and have long been required to monitor the securities they trade, own or recommend to clients to ensure...
Next-Generation Network and Vendor Management: mitigating operational risk in relationship networks
The complex network of relationships that financial institutions have built with multiple partners has created a huge operational burden, resulting in significant operational risk as well as financial and compliance risk. Dating back decades, many of these relationships are now managed as a separate business function, costing organisations millions of dollars. Add in regulatory obligations,...
Events and webinars
Recorded Webinar: S&P Recorded Webinar: Confidence and Clarity – Understanding Valuation Risk
This recorded webinar will help you to understand how valuations and pricing have evolved over the last couple of years in the post-crisis environment. In this session, you will hear different perspectives on how market participants have been tackling the valuation risk challenge from Paul Sharkey of Northern Trust, James Dimech Debono of KPMG, and...
Recorded Webinar: Ideas at the Edge – Managing Risk Information in the Siloed Enterprise
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Risk management has been accepted as the new imperative for financial institutions of all types and sizes. But for Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks and brokerages, the complexity of their organisations is presenting risk professionals with a thorny data management challenge: How to...
Recorded Webinar: What the LEI Means for your Firm
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. This A-Team Webinar looks at the implications of the emerging legal entity identifier (LEI) for financial institutions as they address how to implement the new standard, and offers suggestions on best practices as the LEI becomes available. The industry initiative to develop and promote...
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Data Lineage
Data lineage traces data from source to destination, noting every move the data makes and taking into account any changes to the data during its journey for full traceability. It is critical to regulatory compliance and offers numerous business and operational benefits. Read all about what it is, who it impacts, what the challenges and potential solutions are, as well as review our latest content on the topic and a list of solutions providers.
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Data Management Insight Awards Europe
A-Team Group is proud to introduce the inaugural Data Management Insight Awards – Europe 2022. These annual awards recognise leading providers of data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants within Europe.
