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UK FSA’s £5.6m Fine for RBS Group Highlights Need for Greater Investment in Customer Data Management
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) £5.6 million fine for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group this week for the group’s failure to have adequate data checks in place to conduct mandatory anti-money laundering (AML) screening is indicative of the need for firms to get a better handle on their customer data. According to the…
Strate Completes Corporate Actions Automation Project for South African Market with TCS
Four years ago, South African central securities depository (CSD) Strate launched its project to automate its equity corporate actions processing and, a year later, in September 2008 it engaged the services of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to develop the new system. Following a period of development and testing, the system has now gone live and…
Fiserv Selects Omgeo ProtoColl as Collateral Management Solution
Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that it will utilise Omgeo ProtoColl as its dynamic collateral management solution. Using Omgeo ProtoColl, new and existing Fiserv customers on the TradeFlow platform will be able to automate their collateral management process, handle numerous asset classes and increase visibility into credit exposure to mitigate…
Rana Joins XSP as Senior Business Analyst for EMEA in London
XSP announced today the appointment of Harry Rana as senior business analyst for EMEA. Rana will be responsible for supporting the expanding EMEA sales programme and client base for the XSP Corporate Actions software platform in a pre-sales and business analyst capacity. Based in London, Rana will report to Neil Sheppard, managing director and chief…
DTCC Releases New ISO Messages to Help Automate Corporate Actions Processing
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced the release for public comment of the first drafts of its new corporate actions messages to support the processing of the entire lifecycle of a corporate action including entitlements, elections and payments. In 2009, DTCC processed more than US$3 trillion in corporate actions, and the release…
Is the Leopard Changing its Spots?
Last month saw the approval of the package of proposals that make up the next five year strategic plan for industry network operator Swift, but what has the Brussels-based board approved in Swift 2015 and what does it mean for the industry at large? It’s early days and not much has been said publically about…
Vendor Partnerships Key to Success in Tackling KYC and Entity Data Challenge, Says GoldTier’s Tebaldi
The most effective manner in which to tackle the challenge of entity data management and meeting know your customer (KYC) requirements is by opting for a best of breed vendor approach, according to Matthew Tebaldi, president of client onboarding and KYC data management solution vendor GoldTier. To this end, the vendor has teamed up with…
XSP Launches ASP Global Corporate Actions Solution in AsiaPac
XSP, a vendor of corporate actions software, announced today that it has launched an application service provider (ASP) offering of its flagship XSP v5 corporate actions solution on the Decillion Group platform. Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider and operator of the largest Swift Service Bureau in the AsiaPac region, formed a partnership with…
SIX Telekurs Bolsters its Evaluated Pricing Service
Following the acquisition of the evaluated pricing business of CSV Incorporated in April, SIX Telekurs is continuing to develop this strategic part of its business by forming a focused business unit and adding several senior staff resources, including some new hires. “Evaluated Pricing is a strategic focus for SIX Telekurs, and we are deeply committed…
Eagle Focuses on Hybrid Approach to Data Management and Downstream Integration
BNY Mellon owned Eagle Investment Systems’ big news at this year’s Sifma was the launch of its new data integration services, which effectively packages together its standard and reusable interfaces into a service layer that sits on top of its hosted Eagle Access data solution. John Lehner, who took over as CEO of the vendor…