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Recorded Webinar: Data Science & Analytics – New approaches and capabilities for driving business analytics
Financial institutions are under pressure to maximise the insight they can derive from their data. With data spread across multiple silos and stored in both structured and unstructured formats, embedding analytics into business processes can be difficult and calls for new approaches to data management. Open source database and data processing technologies, as well as…
How to Combine Data Science and Analytics to Drive Business Value Out of Data
Data science and analytics are critical to driving value out of data, delivering business insight at speed, and gaining competitive advantage. With so much at stake, financial institutions need a strategy that puts data scientists in business units, identifies appropriate technologies and tools, and scales solutions beyond proofs of concept. This week’s A-Team Group webinar…
ANNA Progresses Issuance of ISINs for Digital Assets, Notes Addition of Digital Token Identifier Standard
As institutional interest in digital assets continues to rise and the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) makes plans to use International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) to identify these assets, we caught up with Stephan Dreyer, managing director of ANNA, to review progress. He sets the scene, saying: “We are seeing growing issuance of traditional…
Finastra Focuses on High Speed App Innovation with Fusion Data Cloud Platform
Finastra, one of the world’s largest fintechs following the merger of D+H and Misys back in 2017, has released Fusion Data Cloud, a next-generation data platform that allows fintechs to develop innovative data solutions at speed, and financial institutions to take advantage of technologies including AI, machine learning (ML) and business intelligence (BI). Fusion Data…
ICE Data Services Partners RepRisk to Extend ESG Data Offer
ICE Data Services has forged a partnership with Zurich-based RepRisk to extend its environmental, social and governance (ESG) data offerings. RepRisk’s ESG data covers issues related to human rights, labour practices, corruption and the environment. It will be integrated with ICE Data Services’ ESG Reference Data, the company’s first move into the ESG space early…
Bloomberg Offers Guidance on Getting Data Annotation Right for Machine Learning
Machine learning has become essential to financial institutions seeking timely business insight and signals of opportunity and risk across the business. At many firms, the technology is being scaled and use cases are proliferating. There are limitations, however, with useful outcomes from machine learning models depending on high quality data that is annotated accurately and…
FINOS and Goldman Sachs Release Legend Open Source Data Management Platform
In pursuit of data collaboration and standardisation across capital markets, the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) and Goldman Sachs have released Legend, the bank’s flagship data management and data governance platform. The source code for five of the platform’s modules is available from FINOS. Goldman Sachs contributed its PURE logical modelling language and Alloy platform…
Refinitiv Acquisition of The Red Flag Group Extends Due Diligence Capabilities
Refinitiv’s acquisition of The Red Flag Group, a Hong Kong-based global integrity and compliance risk firm specialising in enhanced due diligence and onboarding technologies, should expand the company’s suite of due diligence offerings and help its corporate compliance customers better evaluate money laundering, bribery and corruption, and reputational and ESG risk. “The acquisition of The…
Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerates KYC and Onboarding Strategies
The coronavirus pandemic has been an eye-opener for capital markets firms hit by market volatility, systems unable to cope quickly with change, the need to set up work from home schemes (and security), and changing relationships with customers. Nowhere has this been more visible than in Know Your Customer (KYC) and onboarding functions that have…
Fund Managers Need a New Approach to Data to Overcome the Coronavirus Crisis
By Angie Walker, Global Head of Capital Markets Business Development at R3. Businesses across the globe have implemented digital transformation strategies on an unprecedented scale as they battle against the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic – and fund managers are no exception. Fundamental digital transformation requires a totally new approach to the way in which data…