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SmartStream RDU Prepares Equity and Fixed Income Reference Data Services
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is building momentum in capital markets, helping users drive down costs and preparing to add equity and fixed income reference data services to the listed derivatives solution it already provides. To find out more about the utility’s plans, solutions and users, we caught up with CEO Peter Moss, who…
Governor Expands Oversight Solution with FCA Integration
Governor Software has executed a new update to its institutional compliance oversight solution through a licensed link to the FCA Handbook, allowing clients to automatically integrate and update their internal client policies and controls with FCA guidance. The move, believed to be the first of its kind, provides compliance professionals with a new visualisation tool…
How to Hit the General Data Protection Regulation Compliance Deadline of 25 May
With just weeks to go before the compliance deadline of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018, will your organisation make it over the line, what are the toughest challenges of getting GDPR right, and what should you do if you are worried about being compliant in time? To answer these and other…
Itiviti Ups the Ante on Trading Systems Testing with VeriFIX Enterprise
Recently merged Itiviti and ULLINK have introduced VeriFIX Enterprise by Itiviti, an integrated platform for automated enterprise-level testing of trading systems. The solution expands on VeriFIX by Itiviti, which helps firms automate manual processes used to test trading systems and offers seamless migration from VeriFIX. Vaibhav Shukla, senior vice president, global services, at Itiviti, explains:…
Why Banks Aren’t Looking in the Right Places to Tackle the Profitability Problem
By Jay Patani, Tech Evangelist at ITRS Revenues at the world’s top investment banks are at their lowest levels since the financial crisis in 2008. According to research firm Coalition, the top 12 investment banks’ revenue fell to $150 billion in 2017, a 4% decrease from the previous year. A sizeable part of the decreasing…
A-Team Group Names Winners of RegTech Awards 2018
The winners of A-Team Group’s RegTech Awards 2018 have been revealed, with winning solution and service providers named across categories from best data management solution for regulatory compliance to best reference data for regulatory compliance, best trade repository for regulatory disclosure, best vendor solution for data governance, and best compliance as a service solution. As…
MiFID II Revisited
It is no secret that Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) remains a work in process, despite go live back in January. But what still needs to be done, how easy will it be, and how can firms work towards accruing the benefits of compliance? A recent A-Team Group webinar, MiFID II Revisited,…
Arachnys Hires Steve Mann, Robert Lloyd-Watts and Bill Bennett to Build Sales
Arachnys has made key marketing and sales appointments, naming Steve Mann as chief marketing officer, Robert Lloyd-Watts as regional sales director for EMEA and APAC, and Bill Bennett as regional sales director, North America. The company, a provider of customer risk decisioning solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Extended Due Diligence…
Recorded Webinar: How to optimise client onboarding, KYC and ultimate beneficial owner data
Optimising client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes continues to challenge banks operating in a highly regulated and competitive market. The challenge is exacerbated by increasing requirements to track and understand entity hierarchies and ultimate beneficial ownership. The webinar will discuss the ongoing challenges of client onboarding and KYC, and how best they can…
New Blood for Fenergo
Fenergo pulled off a coup today with the announcement of industry stalwart Conor Coughlan as its new Global Head of Marketing – a strategic poach from Thomson Reuters, where Coughlan has headed the marketing function for the risk division for the last two years. An award-winning B2B financial services marketer, Coughlan is a leading RegTech…