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Potential and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence in the Trading Environment
Earlier this month, HSBC made headlines when it confirmed it will use UK start-up Quantexa’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology to root out money laundering across its operations – the bank’s latest move in a multi-billion pound programme to fight financial crime. This seal of approval by HSBC has focused attention on the…
Fidessa Adds Tower Research Capital to its Intelligent SI Liquidity Program
Fidessa has added Tower Research Capital to its Intelligent SI Liquidity Program, helping users of its access architecture and smart order routing capabilities meet the liquidity challenges presented by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). Tower uses a diverse set of trading strategies across a broad range of asset classes to provide liquidity…
Kingland Upgrades Fourth Generation Enterprise Software Platform
Kingland continues to develop the fourth-generation enterprise software platform it brought to market last year with the delivery of zero downtime deployment of platform components, improved performance, availability and security of microservices transactions, and refined artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities used to extract data from PDF documents. The introduction of the…
Trading Technologies Begins Build of Trading Ecosystem
Trading Technologies (TT) has been developing expertise for 25 years and says the next 25 will be about adding value for customers based on its intent to build an ecosystem encompassing trading applications, infrastructure and data. TT won’t pull back from its traditional business in trading screens, but it is pushing on to extend its…
SmartStream RDU Collaborates with APAs to Deliver a Centralised SI Registry
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is collaborating with a group of Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs) to fill a reporting gap in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) framework with a centralised Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry that allows SIs to register financial instruments for which they are providing SI services in the…
KAS BANK Selects AIM Software to Support Digital Transformation
KAS BANK has licensed three modules of AIM Software’s GAIN business application suite as part of a digital transformation designed to the make the bank more agile and competitive. The GAIN solutions will be used to underpin data management and support the bank’s strategic focus on becoming more data driven and improving operations by streamlining…
Pontus Vision Offers Open Source GDPR Solution with GCHQ Style Security
If you are still looking for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance solution, London based regtech Pontus Vision may be able to help you with its open source, secure software that allows firms to search for any given customer and quickly access all of the data the business holds about them in a single…
MiFID II: Unfinished Business
Generic data issues and specific structural issues caused by the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continue to challenge traders and brokers, despite the regulation’s relatively smooth debut on January 3, 2018 – the so-called ‘Day of the MiFIDs’. The pain points highlighted by an expert panel (see box) discussing the…
Mizuho International’s Gary Goldberg Outlines the Future of the CDO
Gary Goldberg, CDO at Mizuho International, headlined A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in London with a keynote titled ‘Using data to bring the business together’. He talked about the evolution of the CDO role, the power of data and the opportunity for the data office to become a strategic business partner. Setting the scene…
Identifying and Verifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners: Getting the Full Picture, Fast
By Paul Charmatz, Managing Director, encompass The increasing burden of identifying and verifying ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) of entities is a challenge faced by all regulated firms. However, Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations that enforce corporate transparency by identifying UBOs can reduce the risk of corruption and the cost of compliance. Firms undertaking appropriate due…