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Arcesium and Confluence Partner to Provide Efficiencies for the Buy-Side

Arcesium, a provider of enterprise data management solutions, and Confluence, a solutions provider for the investment management industry, have partnered to deliver an integrated data management and analytics solution for middle/back-office operations of asset managers. The partnership is intended to deliver workflow efficiency across performance, risk and regulatory reporting, and will integrate Confluence’s StatPro Analytics…

ICO Recommends Privacy Enhancing Technologies

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is recommending organisations start using privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) to share personal information safely, securely and anonymously. These types of technologies open unprecedented opportunities for organisations to harness the power of personal data through innovative and trustworthy applications, by allowing them to share, link and analyse people’s personal information without…

ESMA Data Strategy Proposes More Tech, Less Cost in Reporting Compliance

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its data strategy for 2023 to 2028. Key agenda points include using new data-related technologies, reducing reporting compliance costs for regulated entities, enabling effective use of data at both EU and national level, and making data more broadly available to the public. The five-year ESMA data…

Solving the Enterprise Data Challenge for Institutional Investors

Institutional investors are evolving under pressure from a range of emergent externalities that are prompting many to assume new roles and processes, some of which have traditionally been the preserve of asset managers. Enabled by data-led technology, they are making more direct investments and managing their portfolios in-house. At the same time, they are streamlining…

Linedata Publishes 2023 Global Asset Management Survey

Linedata has published the results of its 2023 Global Asset Management Survey, revealing a focus on operational efficiency, digital transformation, and client experience. The survey is designed to provide insights into the priorities and challenges asset management firms are facing and includes responses from 265 industry leaders across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The report…

ICE Benchmark Administration Provides Update on LIBOR Cessation and Synthetic LIBOR

ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA), the authorised and regulated administrator of LIBOR, has provided an update on LIBOR settings yet to be ceased and synthetic LIBOR methodologies. The UK FCA issued its final messages on LIBOR at the end of May 2023, prior to the end of the US dollar LIBOR panel and reminding market participants…

Fenergo Combines KYC and Transaction Compliance to Provide Real-Time Customer Intelligence

Fenergo has released KYC & Transaction Compliance, an offering for fintechs – and later financial institutions – that combines the company’s KYC and transaction monitoring solutions to provide a single, integrated SaaS solution that continuously monitors customer profiles and detects suspicious transaction activities, including money laundering and terrorist financing, in real time. KYC & Transaction…

BTP is on a mission to build trust in capital markets, Chronicle is its digital provenance solution

Provenance can be a problem, but there are answers as vendors such as BTP move into the space with solutions that help financial institutions gain confidence in the provenance of capital markets related assets such as data, financial instruments, commodities, and regulatory reports. The company’s digital provenance solution, Chronicle, was made generally available in autumn…

VerifyVASP Becomes First LEI Validation Agent Operating Exclusively in Crypto and Digital Asset Trading

VerifyVASP, a Singapore-based RegTech solution provider to virtual asset service providers (VASPs), has joined the Global LEI System as a validation agent. The company is the first validation agent to operate exclusively in the crypto and digital asset trading space. As a validation agent, VerifyVASP can help obtain Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for its VASP…

Automation Failure in Capital Markets – Why We Need to Talk About Data Management

By James Maxfield, Head of Product at Duco. ‘I don’t understand what all these people do?’ is a common question in capital markets as budgets are set for the next cycle and the C-team (EO,FO,OO) queries its cost base. This creates a cycle of justification from process owners – ops, risk, finance – who usually…