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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…
Trade Surveillance – Monitoring News and Social Media to Detect Insider Trading
By Helen Bevis, Head of Operations and Strategic Partnerships at SteelEye. To mitigate and manage the risk of insider trading, firms need to use the best tools to effectively identify, investigate and report on signs of wrongdoing. A key component of this is access to benchmark data, which for insider trading should include both news and…
Global LEI Foundation Aims to Accelerate LEI Adoption by Slashing Prices of the Identifiers to Single Digit Dollars
The Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) is planning to tear down the cost barrier obstructing widespread adoption of the LEI with the implementation of a validation agent role for banks and financial institutions. Expectations are that frequently contended high prices charged to register an entity for an LEI – by way of example Bloomberg charges $65…
SmartStream Offers Affinity Machine Learning Technology in the Cloud
SmartStream Technologies has acknowledged banks’ ongoing move to cloud services and growing interest in machine learning (ML) for data management and discovery with its offer of Affinity, an observational learning solution designed to improve operational data management and data quality processes. Affinity observes how users work, learns from them, and incrementally increases its understanding of…
Bottomline Boosts Anti-Financial Crime Capabilities with Dow Jones Data
Bottomline Technologies, a FinTech specialising in secure business payments, this week announced a partnership with Dow Jones Risk & Compliance: adding key Dow Jones data to its Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing monitoring and screening capabilities. Dow Jones’s risk data, including politically exposed persons (PEPs), sanctions lists and adverse media entities for the UK,…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2020/2021 – Eighth Edition
This eighth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook is a ‘must-have’ for capital markets participants during this period of unprecedented change. Available free of charge, it profiles every regulation that impacts capital markets data management practices giving you: A detailed overview of each regulation with key dates, data and data management implications, links to…
Live at Data Management Summit USA Virtual – Day Two Keynote and Q&As
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual Day Two was based on the theme of best practices for data driven strategies in today’s new normal. The day started with an informative live keynote from Arvind Joshi, director of data management at Scotiabank, on how to establish data quality for analytics. This was followed by three…
ROC Takes Responsibility for Identifiers Designed to Track OTC Derivatives Transactions
Transparency of the OTC derivatives market takes a step forward tomorrow with the Financial Stability Board (FSB) confirming the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global LEI System as the International Governance Body for the identifiers that will be used to track OTC derivatives transactions. Harmonisation of the identifiers should culminate towards the end of…
DMS US Virtual Goes Live with a Practitioner Innovation Keynote and Real-Time Q&As
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual kicked off today with a hugely insightful live practitioner innovation keynote followed by two live, and lively, Q&A sessions packed with audience questions and answered by the day’s expert keynote and panel speakers. Andrew Delaney, president and chief content officer at A-Team, hosted today’s live sessions of the…
Canoe Intelligence Paddles Upstream with New CEO
Canoe Intelligence has replaced its founding CEO Seth Brotman with Jason Eiswerth as the fintech prepares next phase growth that will further develop its machine learning and natural language processing platform that extracts and digitalises data from PDF reports for institutional investors, allocators and asset servicing firms. The growth plan will be supported by Series…