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Blockchain Technology is Making Progress but Needs Standards, Business Cases and Brave Pioneers

Summer in the City and time to review what could, arguably, be the ‘next big thing’ for capital markets – blockchain technology. It is certainly on the agenda across the financial services sector, consortia have been set up to drive development, and the business case looks great, with blockchain offering the potential for more efficient,…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s a MAD MAD / MAR MAR World

Here in Canary Wharf, at least, all of the ongoing fuss about Brexit distracted us from a key regulatory milestone: the introduction on July 4 for the EU’s Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), the real-life incarnation of its earlier foray into financial crime: the Market Abuse Directive (MAD). We could all be forgiven for worrying about…

A-Team Webinar Discusses Data Management Challenges of Client Onboarding and KYC

Increasing cost, complexity and regulatory change continue to challenge firms implementing client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) systems, but with a focus on data management and data quality many are developing successful solutions that meet compliance requirements and support business strategy. Webinar Recording: Listen to the recent Client onboarding and KYC: the data management…

Recorded Webinar: Client onboarding and KYC: the data management challenges

Client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes are imperative to regulatory compliance and building competitive advantage, but how much progress is the industry making in transitioning onboarding from a disjointed process run across many functions to an holistic operation spanning the enterprise? New approaches and technologies are available, so how best can you implement…

Alacra Adds OusideIQ Automated Due Diligence Reports to Compliance Platform

Alacra has added OutsideIQ’s DDIQ automated due diligence reports to its Alacra-On-Demand research fulfilment service and will add the reports to its Alacra Compliance Enterprise client onboarding solution later this year. OutsideIQ’s DDIQ reports are based on algo searches of the web and open source corporate data, complementing Alacra’s searches of licensed data services and…

A-Team Data Management Summit Outlines Elements of Optimal Data Management

Organising for optimal data management, transformation challenges, operational models, data quality, emerging technologies, data governance and, of course, regulation were top agenda items at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York City. The first keynote speaker, David Luria, vice president, front office data intelligence programs at T. Rowe Price, set the scene for…

Bloomberg Introduces Entity Exchange for KYC and Client Onboarding

Bloomberg has released Entity Exchange, a web-based platform designed to speed up onboarding on the buy side and help banks and brokers on the sell side meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. The platform enables hedge funds to provide entity data and documentation to their trading counterparties. It is supported by Bloomberg’s data intelligence team…

Schroders Selects Clarient Entity Hub to Support Know Your Customer Processes

Schroders Investment Management (Luxembourg) has selected Clarient Entity Hub to support Know Your Customer (KYC) processing for intermediary and institutional investors at its Luxembourg funds hub, and to help counterparties complete their KYC processing on Schroders’ Luxembourg funds. Before joining the Clarient Entity Hub, which offers a utility based service designed to simplify client data…

A-Team Data Management Summit Discusses Hot Topics and Technologies

Data governance, operations automation, data quality, regulation, blockchain technology, Know your Customer (KYC) and client onboarding were among the hot topics discussed at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. The first keynote of the day, Data Governance – Winning Hearts and Minds, was presented by Kevin Ayling, head of data quality governance…

Strategic Responses to Unrelenting Regulation

Financial institutions continue to take a tactical rather than strategic approach to data management for multiple regulations, but change is on the way and will be discussed during a panel session on the challenges and opportunities of incoming regulation at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. Panel member Peter Warms, manager of…