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Blackstone Closes Deal to Take 55% Stake in Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Business
Nearly nine months after Thomson Reuters signed a definitive agreement with Blackstone that would give the private equity firm a 55% stake and Thomson Reuters a 45% stake in the company’s financial and risk business, the deal is closed and the business rebranded as Refinitiv. With backing from Blackstone, Refinitiv plans to invest in a…
Gibraltar Stock Exchange’s Targ Patience Discusses the Role of Regtech in Fighting Financial Crime
Fighting financial crime is imperative and is best achieved by having impenetrable client onboarding, anti-money laundering (AML) and Know your Customer (KYC) processes in place. At some firms, first generation systems are struggling to cope with the volume of data that needs to be processed quickly and efficiently to ensure accurate entity data and effective…
Recorded Webinar: The impact of GDPR on data monetisation
Data monetisation has become key to revenue growth at financial institutions, but how can they get it right and achieve competitive advantage, and how will General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) impact their progress? This webinar will discuss why and how financial firms are monetising data, and detail the steps they must take to be successful,…
BSO and Hoptroff Develop Time-as-a-Service Solution to Support Regulatory Compliance
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Global network provider BSO and time synchronisation specialist Hoptroff London have partnered to create a fully traceable and accurate Time-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution. Hoptroff’s Global Timing Network and AI driven Time-Suite software will be combined with BSO’s global low-latency network to offer a time synchronisation tool that gives firms a timestamp…
Making the Most of Data Monetisation
Is your firm working on data monetisation or planning to do so? If not, it probably should be as monetisation has become key to revenue growth at many financial institutions. But how can you get it right and achieve competitive advantage, and what impact will General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have on progress? To discover…
Recorded Webinar: Balancing Regulatory Transparency with Data Protection
Balancing the use of personal data required by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID) as part of its transparency regime with the personal data protection rules set out in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a tough task – tell us everything, but keep it secret – that many financial institutions are struggling with….
Data Management Summit Discusses Digitalisation, Technology, Diversity and More!
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit hit an all-time high in New York City last week with a packed auditorium, buzzing exhibition hall, great line-up of speakers, market leading sponsors and interactive discussion throughout the day on how to deliver the next level of data management and business success. Keynote presentations Suvrat Bansal, head of innovation,…
DSB Opens Product Committee to Custodians, Data Vendors
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), founded by the Association of Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) for OTC Derivatives, is looking to expand its committee to include custodians and data vendors in 2019. It is now inviting applications to participate in its Product Committee from January…
Creating a Data First Mindset in the Capital Markets Sector
By: Clive Bellmore, CEO Europe and Africa, BackOffice Associates Analogies about how vital data is to the digital economy are bountiful. It has even been branded ‘the new gold’, a critical and precious asset that directly impacts business outcomes for companies across the globe and in all sectors. And never more so than in the…
ITS MiFID II Briefing: MEP Warns of Political Impact on Market Structure Post-Brexit
Dr Kay Swinburne, the Welsh Conservative MEP known for her instrumental role in the architecture of MiFID II, has issued a stark warning on the highly politicised environment to be expected over the next six months. As Brexit negotiations take centre stage and technical considerations become subsumed by partisan agendas, Swinburne further stressed the potential…