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GLEIF continues LEI push with mapping of S&P Global Company ID to the identifier
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to promote use of the LEI through a collaboration with S&P Global Market Intelligence that certifies the mapping of the S&P Global Company ID to the LEI. GLEIF says links like this increase the value of the LEI by extending its connectivity to the world’s entity identifier…
Back to Front: How Back-Office Data Provides Invaluable Front-Office Insights
By Tim Lind, Managing Director, DTCC Data Services. The capital markets industry has invested billions of dollars to automate back-office processes from trade confirmation all the way through clearing and settlement. The automation business case has typically been based on headcount savings and operational efficiencies, such as scaling operations for higher volumes, effective exception management,…
Rate of Annual Sanctions Growth Nears 15%, According to Refinitiv Report
The Russia-Ukraine war has caused rapid sanctions inflation since March in several autonomous sanctions programs, contributing to a sanctions inflation rate of 14.6% year on year, according to London Stock Exchange Group’s Refinitiv Global Sanctions Index (GSI). Refinitiv’s annual GSI white paper, the second edition of which was released last week, measures and analyses rising…
NeoXam Plans Growth and Global Expansion on Brink of €100 Million Investment
Asset management software provider NeoXam is on the brink of raising more than €100 million from French investment company Eurazeo. If the agreed investment is secured, Eurazeo’s small-mid buyout team will take a majority shareholding in NeoXam, with other investors including the company’s founder Serge Delpla and its management team led by Florent Fabre. Previous…
Making the Case for Master Data Management
Master data management (MDM) is not a new concept for capital markets participants, but it can be an effective approach to data management when financial institutions face rising costs of ingesting, holding and using data, or when they restructure. Its benefits include streamlining workflows, reducing input error, lowering costs and unlocking the full value of…
Recorded Webinar: Best practices for creating an effective data quality control framework
Data quality is critical to capital markets processes from identifying counterparties to building customer relationships, regulatory reporting, and ultimately improving the bottom line. It can also be extremely difficult to achieve. One solution is a data quality control framework that includes an automated and systematic process that monitors the state of data quality and ensures…
GLEIF Extends LEI Validation Agent Scheme with Sparkasse Bank Malta and Diligencia
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has added two validation agents to the Global Legal Entity Identifier System, bringing the global total of agents able to provide their clients with LEIs to 10. The additions are Sparkasse Bank Malta, a European bank offering corporate and private banking, investment, and custody services; and Diligencia, a…
The Business Case for Master Data Management Transition Within Financial Institutions
Master data management ensures the creation of a “single source of truth” of information for banks and financial institutions that not only provides that the data remains intact but also makes it available and useable across the entire enterprise. Once the information foundation of golden data is established with MDM, the data can be used…
KYC Hub Launches OpsFlow for Automated Client Onboarding
Due diligence and compliance automation specialist KYC Hub has released a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) based platform to streamline client onboarding across a wide range of industries including financial services. OpsFlow aims to reduce complexity in the onboarding process by offering access to hundreds of global verification types through a single solution, allowing workflow and…
Refinitiv Releases Low-Code/No-Code Solution for Digital Customer Onboarding
Refinitiv, an LSEG business, has introduced a secure and personalised digital customer onboarding solution that enables financial firms to verify an individual’s identity information and documents in real time, conduct remote biometric checks, and cross reference a series of disparate data sets, such as residential addresses and sanction lists, to verify bank accounts. The onboarding…