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Thomson Reuters and Salesforce Collaborate to Fight Financial Crime
Thomson Reuters is collaborating with Salesforce to help clients onboard new customers quickly and efficiently while meeting anti-money laundering obligations. The collaboration allows users of the Salesforce AppExchange to access Thomson Reuters World-Check, a database of risk intelligence data that supports Know Your Customer (KYC) due diligence, through the Thomson Reuters customer risk screener application….
Kx Adds Software-As-A-Service Version of kdb+ Time Series Database
Kx Systems has released a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its kdb+ time series database with a flexible pricing model designed to make it widely accessible to programmers. A personal edition of 64-bit kdb+ on-demand for non-commercial use is also available at no cost. The 64-bit version of kdb+ can be run on any computer anywhere,…
MiFID II vs GDPR: The Delicate Balance Between KYC and Data Privacy
By: Fenergo regulatory consultants Ciara Kennedy and Aoife Harney Already this year, financial institutions have tackled one significant regulatory hurdle in the form of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). In May 2018 they face General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that threatens to present banks around the world with conflicting and challenging data…
Options Completes 40Gb Backbone Upgrade, Plans Further Upgrade to 100Gb
Options has completed a 40Gb backbone upgrade of all its managed wide area network (WAN) circuits across New York (NY) metro data centres. The infrastructure expansion is designed to allow clients to connect to high volume exchange data feeds at Mahwah, Carteret, NY4 and NJ2, without bandwidth restrictions. All clients connecting to NYSE data have…
GDPR is Coming – Do You Need to Find the Location of Personal Data in Your ERP and CRM Systems?
By: Roland Bullivant, Silwood Technology The EU’s new rules on data protection enshrined in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) come into force in May 2018. They fortify the rights of citizens over their own data and put more obligations on organisations of sizes to manage and protect that personal data. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office…
Leading Industry Players Back FDC3 Desktop Applications Connectivity Initiative
OpenFin is leading an initiative to bring universal connectivity and standards to the desktop applications used across capital markets. The initiative is called the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium (FDC3) and initial members include Algomi, AllianceBernstein, Barclays, BNP Paribas, ChartIQ, Citadel, Cloud9, FactSet, Fidessa, GreenKey, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, OTAS Technologies, RBC, TP ICAP,…
CLS Offers CLSReporting to Support MiFID II FX Reporting Requirements
Market infrastructure provider CLS has introduced CLSReporting, a product for foreign exchange (FX) matched instructions that supports members with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) reporting requirements. The product is a response to market demand and will provide the ability for parties and counterparties to FX trades to exchange additional information in settlement…
Countdown to GDPR
Time is running out: the compliance deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is May 25, 2018, and with fines running up to 4% of annual turnover or €20 million for firms that fail to protect European citizens’ personal data, no-one can afford to take this EU data privacy law lightly. From a data management…
Quantexa and Arachnys Partner to Identify and Monitor Customer Risk
Quantexa, provider of big data management software, and Arachnys, provider of a financial crime risk assessment platform, have teamed up to identify and monitor customer risk. Quantexa will use the Arachnys cloud-based investigation platform and global news assets to dynamically screen against negative news, locate missing Know Your Customer (KYC) data and provide enhanced risk…
The CAT is Out of the Bag and it Looks Aggressive
In an era of regulation, traders may not love compliance, but they have learned to live with it. That said, the looming US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has stirred up infighting between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the individual broker-dealer firms and exchanges affected. There have been complaints of an ‘incredibly aggressive’ timeframe,…