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Atlas ATS Deploys Strevus Compliance Solution to Support Digital Currency Exchange
Atlas ATS, a New York based cryptocurrency trading exchange, has deployed a Strevus hosted solution to ensure that its institutional customers achieve Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance as required under the US Bank Secrecy Act. The exchange is up and running with the Strevus compliance lifecycle management solution in New York…
Fidessa Develops FIX-Based Affirmation Service for the Buy Side
Fidessa is pushing further into the post-trade space with the addition of an affirmation management service (AMS) for the buy side. The service is due to be available in the fourth quarter of 2014 and follows the introduction of Fidessa’s FIX-based Post-trade Hub for the confirmation of trades between buy-side and sell-side firms in August…
Fidessa Promotes David Polen to Global Head of Electronic Execution
Fidessa has appointed David Polen as global head of electronic execution with responsibility for developing the company’s platform and electronic execution capabilities across global markets. Reporting to Mark Ames, global head of sell side services, Polen will deliver a range of managed solutions that will allow brokers to present their clients with intelligent and cost-effective…
Bloomberg Extends Vault with File Analytics for Dark Data
Bloomberg has added File Analytics to its Vault enterprise information management service with a view to helping organisations locate and manage dark data held in files and documents. The company defines dark data as ‘unstructured, untapped data that is held by organisations, which has not been analysed or processed’, and says users of the Vault…
DST Enhances Anova Position Keeping to Deliver IBOR Product
DST has enhanced the position keeping element of its Anova post-trade data management, analytics and reporting suite to deliver a fully-fledged investment book of record (IBOR) designed to provide asset managers with near real-time visibility of positions and valuations. Anova has included the capability to consume transactions and events, and provide continuously updated valuations and…
IFRS & AIFMD – Managing the Pricing and Transparency Paradigm
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) present the market with a broad and complex range of obligations. In many cases these are the first set of common obligations that will impact Fund Managers, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Fund Administrators & Custodians all at the same time! Going…
How to Ensure the Integrity of Your Contributions Data
Do you worry about the validity and integrity of the data you contribute either to benchmarks like Libor or indexes, or to markets like the exchange-like Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs)? Or about the quality of the data you are selling to clients? With a marketplace growing in complexity, and more and more rules coming from…
Markit Develops Managed Services With CTI Acquisition
Markit’s agreement to acquire tax compliance and reporting services specialist Compliance Technologies International (CTI) will add a tax component to the company’s managed regulatory reporting services that already include the Counterparty Manager platform and the recently introduced Markit | Genpact Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Services. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed and the transaction…
Opinion: Uniting Entity Data – the Missed Opportunity
By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director, EMEA & Asia, Goldensource The industry’s drive to understand and reduce systemic risk has created fresh challenges around instrument and entity data that put technology under a whole new light. However, in a post-2008 crisis landscape dominated by regulatory reform, compliance is only part of the issue. If firms can…
Markit and Genpact Release KYC Service
Markit’s tie-up with business process specialist Genpact, which was made back in September 2013, has come to fruition in a Know Your Customer (KYC) service designed in conjunction with Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. Called Markit | Genpact KYC Services, the companies’ KYC offering is based on Markit’s Counterparty Manager service and Genpact’s…