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Digital Asset Names Former Thomson Reuters Exec James Powell to CTO
Digital Asset, a New York-based distributed ledger technology solutions provider, has appointed former Thomson Reuters executive James Powell as its new CIO and CTO of engineering. Powell is charged with guiding development of the company’s distributed ledger platform and smart contract modelling language, DAML. He joins the firm after a stint at Warburg Pincus as…
Systematic Internalisation Under MiFID II: What’s Needed Now
From September 1, 2018, firms within the scope of MiFID II that breach volume thresholds set by ESMA on August 1, 2018 for internal matching of client orders will be required to register as systematic internalisers (SIs) and operate within the SI regime detailed in the regulation. Sounds pretty straightforward, but that is far from…
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk Business to be Renamed as Refinitiv
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business will be renamed as Revinitiv following the closure of the company’s strategic partnership with private equity fund manager Blackstone, which will acquire 55% of the business and leave 45% with Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk in its new guise as Refinitiv. David Craig, president of the Financial & Risk…
Corvil Enters Client Analysis Space with AI-Powered Intelligence Hub
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Corvil’s release last week of its Intelligence Hub propels the Dublin-based data analytics specialist into the burgeoning world of business intelligence for the trading environment. Building on the company’s long-established trading infrastructure monitoring and latency measurement offerings, the Intelligence Hub extracts data from Corvil analytics appliances at every stage in…
Siren Investigative Intelligence Platform Finds Favour in Financial Markets
Siren, a Galway based provider of investigative intelligence, is making headway in capital markets following a €3 million round of seed funding early this year that allowed the company to offer its semantic data investigation technology to market sectors beyond its initial target of law enforcement and including financial services and life sciences. To date,…
ITS Summit NYC 2018 Podcast: Exploring Digital Transformation for Financial Desktops
Digital transformation is all the rage in the back office, but what about the front office where traders work with at least 10 different apps every day? This fractured ecosystem was the subject of a session presented by Adam Toms, CEO of OpenFin Europe, at last month’s A-Team Group Intelligent Trading Summit in New York…
Challenges and Opportunities of Data Lineage Implementation
Data lineage is critical to regulatory compliance, cost-effective data management, and arming the business with accurate and timely information on which to make decisions. It is also challenging to implement, difficult to sustain and often suffers from a lack of management buy-in and funding. A recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group on how to get data…
RSRCHXchange Adds Analyst Interaction to MiFID II Research Marketplace
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Institutional research aggregator RSRCHXchange has added an analyst interaction functionality to its platform, allowing research providers to book and sell meetings, calls, webinars and conferences to asset management and other buy-side firms. The initiative aims to help firms consuming research in compliance with MiFID II unbundling to choose services from…
JNAM Adopts Hosted GoldenSource Solution for N-PORT, N-CEN Data Compliance
Jackson National Asset Management (JNAM) has selected GoldenSource to provide a fully hosted data management platform to help meet its regulatory obligations. Specifically, the asset manager, a subsidiary of Jackson National Life Insurance, will use the GoldenSource platform to meet requirements for structured data elements inherent in the impending form N-PORT and N-CEN filings with…
The Digital Transformation of Financial Reporting: Why XBRL Should be on Everyone’s Radar
By Ken Krupa, Chief Technology Officer, MarkLogic The standard corporate financial reporting language known as eXtensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, has been around for more than 20 years. Based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XBRL is a common global mechanism for communicating and sharing data across…