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Software Vendors Welcome Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ Partner Programme
Software vendors and end users have welcomed the formalisation of Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ vendor partner programme that allows financial software vendors to make their apps ‘Bloomberg ready’ by connecting them to Bloomberg applications and providing access to Bloomberg data. Bloomberg introduced the programme with 125 financial software partners offering everything from order, execution and risk…
Thomson Reuters Eases the Burden of KYC Compliance with Accelus Org ID Managed Service
Thomson Reuters has set up a managed service designed to help financial institutions and their clients comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. Called Accelus Org ID, the service aims to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of compliance by providing accurate, up to date identity data and avoiding the need to repeat the…
CounterpartyLink Adds Risk Screening to Legal Entity Information Service
CounterpartyLink has augmented its legal entity and counterparty intelligence service through a partnership with RDC, a provider of risk and compliance data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, Politically Exposed Persons protection, corruption, fraud and crime protection, vendor screening and monitoring, and credit risk monitoring. The partnership is a response to…
Win $10,000 of Ciara Kit at A-Team’s Intelligent Trading Summit
Ciara Technologies always strived to conquer different markets, and diversify its offering without losing sight of its customers’ needs. Although this path can be more complex than others, it has led us constantly to address new customer challenges, and pushed us to maintain high levels of competency. At Ciara, we believe that performance is the…
Managed Reference Data Services – Are Utility Models the Way Forward?
The combination of cost, complexity and compliance are driving managers of reference data to examine new delivery models that avoid the duplication, manual intervention and expense of current business methods. But is a utility or managed service provider the best way forward? From recent industry conversations, not only do many believe it is, but are…
Bank Muddles Over EMIR Compliance Could See Strategic Acceptance of New IT Business Models
As many as half of Europe’s financial institutions will have been “caught on the hop” and are now having to catch up after the latest deadline for complying with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) came into force last week, according to a leading industry observer. Elizabeth Goodchild, a senior consultant with Rules Financial, said…
Bloomberg Adds EMIR Reporting Solution to Professional Service
Bloomberg is up and running with a trade reporting solution for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) ahead of next week’s deadline. The company has used existing infrastructure to set up the solution and will initially report trades to European trade repositories operated by DTCC and Regis-TR. Bloomberg is offering the EMIR reporting solution as a…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Eikon – A Window to Enterprise Data
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? While the initial vision may have been of a modern premium trader desktop, the latest incarnation is more of a…
Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: Eikon – An Icon of Modern Trading Analytics?
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? This week’s unveiling of Eikon 4 – together with a bunch of sentiment analysis capabilities – illustrates the strides Thomson…
S&P Capital IQ Reports on the Challenges and Opportunities of EMIR Compliance
As the deadline for derivatives trade reporting under European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) looms, S&P Capital IQ reports that many companies are not ready to comply with the regulation and may not yet have pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that are mandatory for derivatives reporting. S&P Capital IQ covers the issues of EMIR, the LEI and…