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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…

Informatica Plans Second Half Release of CLAIRE GPT

Informatica, a provider of cloud data management solutions, is planning a second half 2023 release of CLAIRE GPT, a generative AI-powered data management platform that will become part of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). The company describes CLAIRE GPT, which is based on its enterprise-scale AI engine, as the next generation of the IDMC…

ESG Data. A New Master?

By Mark Davies, Partner, element22. Master data management has long been an unsung hero. Understood by a handful of technologists and passionate data evangelists, while delivering consistency and control across complex organisations. Regardless of industry, those organisations that invest in mastering the data that really matters to their organisation reap substantial ongoing dividends. It is…

GoldenSource Sets Out Renewed Agenda Including Product Strategy and M&A Programme

In May 2022, after more than 30 years in the data management market, GoldenSource was acquired from previous equity investors by middle-market private equity firm Gemspring Capital. The acquisition marked a step-change for the company, with its agenda now including cooperation with Gemspring on core operations such as products, managed services, development, and sales and…

The Derivatives Service Bureau Calls for Responses to 2023 OTC ISIN Consultation Paper

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published the 2023 industry consultation paper related to 2024 OTC International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) and Classification Financial Instrument code (CFI) service provision. The consultation paper focuses on the next steps for the security operations centre investigated as part of the 2022 industry consultation. It also looks at the…

Datactics and Solidatus Integrate Data Quality and Lineage Tools to Manage Data Quality in Motion

Datactics and Solidatus have made a ground-breaking technology alliance that integrates the former’s data quality and latter’s data lineage tools to manage data quality in motion. The integration helps data practitioners visualise where data quality issues are occurring, understand the business impact of poor data quality, and quickly locate and fix quality issues wherever the…

CUSIP Global Services Enhances Products and Services to Improve Market Efficiency and Transparency

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has implemented a series of product and service enhancements designed to improve the efficiency and transparency of financial markets. Provided at no additional cost to CGS customers, these improvements include an expansion of the standard CUSIP data field, the introduction of a series of counterparty risk reports, and infrastructure improvements to…

FCA Sets Out Next Stages of Data Strategy

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is advancing its data strategy after publishing an update in 2020, which set out a five-year plan designed to make the FCA smarter in its use of data and analytics. It has also established a joint programme with the Bank of England to transform how it regulates, with the aim…