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LSEG and Reuters Extend Financial and Market News Services for LSEG Customers

LSEG and Thomson Reuters have extended their long-term partnership on news and information with a number of shared commitments designed to enhance the value of financial and market news services offered to LSEG customers. The companies’ partnership started in 2018 and makes LSEG the exclusive distributor of Reuters news to the financial community under a…

LIBOR Transition: The Countdown Is On

Ian Sams, European Head of Product at TraditionDATA. Financial institutions and corporates have fewer than six months to get ready for one of the biggest changes to financial markets in history. On 30 June 2023, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will cease publishing the London interbank overnight rate (LIBOR) dollar-denominated tenors. Market participants must move to alternative risk-free…

Danish Pensions Firm Forca Selects Gresham Technologies to Realise Client Service Benefits

Forca, a Danish pensions services provider, has selected Gresham Technologies Control solution for holdings, cash, and transaction reconciliations. By automating all data validation, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting, the solution will allow Forca to tackle data control issues and focus on exception management and transaction reconciliation. With the implementation of the solution already underway, the pensions…

S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds ChartIQ to Capital IQ Pro Platform

S&P Global Market Intelligence has acquired ChartIQ, a provider of data visualisation and charting, to enhance its S&P Capital IQ Pro platform, digital investment solutions provider Markit Digital, and other workflow solutions. Prior to the S&P Global Market Intelligence acquisition, ChartIQ was part of Cosaic, a workflow solution provider offering data visualisation and desktop technology…

Despite Downturn, Financial Services Firms Must Hold the Line on Data Management Investments

By Justin Llewellyn-Jones, head of capital markets for North America at Broadridge. As financial services firms craft strategies for what’s shaping up to be a challenging 2023, they must hold strong on one essential point: don’t cut back on investments in data management. Over the past several years, many financial services firms have launched initiatives…

Predictions 2023: A Year of Evolution and Adaptation

By Ludovic Blanquet, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Xceptor. As the curtains begin to draw on 2022, financial institutions are anxiously navigating the challenges imposed by war in Ukraine, rampant inflation, and looming recessions. If it was hoped the diminishing threat of Covid would offer some respite, that hope was short-lived. However, advancements were made…

A-Team Group Names Winners of Data Management Insight Awards – Europe 2022

Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s Data Management Insight Awards – Europe 2022. These awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe. This year’s Data Management Insight Awards – Europe were presented by Olympic Athlete, Derek Redmond after a…

Alveo expands data partnership with SIX

Alveo, a cloud-based market data integration, analytics and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions provider, has expanded its global data coverage and feed integrations with the addition of new content from SIX, including sentiment indicators, tax, and regulatory risk data. SIX data sets covering global security master and historical pricing data are already available to users of Alveo’s…

Back to Front: How Back-Office Data Provides Invaluable Front-Office Insights

By Tim Lind, Managing Director, DTCC Data Services. The capital markets industry has invested billions of dollars to automate back-office processes from trade confirmation all the way through clearing and settlement. The automation business case has typically been based on headcount savings and operational efficiencies, such as scaling operations for higher volumes, effective exception management,…

Rate of Annual Sanctions Growth Nears 15%, According to Refinitiv Report

The Russia-Ukraine war has caused rapid sanctions inflation since March in several autonomous sanctions programs, contributing to a sanctions inflation rate of 14.6% year on year, according to London Stock Exchange Group’s Refinitiv Global Sanctions Index (GSI). Refinitiv’s annual GSI white paper, the second edition of which was released last week, measures and analyses rising…