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Financial Institutions Spend $1,500 to $3,000 to Complete One Client KYC Review

Financial institutions are spending millions of dollars every year inefficiently onboarding and maintaining clients, according to research from Fenergo, a provider of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions. A global study of over 1,000 C-level executives across corporate and institutional banks found that, on average, over half are spending between…

How Well Managed No-Code Data Solutions Can Bring Agility without Headaches

By Christian Nentwhich, CEO, Duco. When businesses are looking to improve their operations, they frequently look at their data. Capital market participants use data to provide pre and post-trade analysis to make more informed trading decisions. Businesses use financial management tools to streamline internal operations. Medical facilities use data to manage patient records and create…

SIX Expands Data Offerings by Partnering with Tradeweb and CryptoCompare

Swiss-based infrastructure services and financial information company SIX has entered into two partnership agreements that will expand the company’s data offerings. By partnering with global electronic marketplace operator Tradeweb, SIX customers will have access to municipal bond prices generated by Tradeweb Municipal AI-Price. And through a partnership with CryptoCompare, the digital asset market data provider,…

EU Publishes Mandate for Use of UPI Alongside LEI in OTC Derivatives Transaction Reporting

The Official Journal of the European Union has published the requirement for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI), created and distributed by the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), to be part of EU law. The mandate is included in the EMIR Refit publication and makes the EU the first jurisdiction among the G20 to enforce use of…

How Well Does Your Company Really Know its Sanctions Chain?

By Jay Rao, Co-founder of KYC Hub. The war in the Ukraine brought a slew of sanctions from across the globe, creating a spider’s web that continues to be recast, is both complex and powerful, and gets added to and changed all the time. What’s more, if any part of the web is damaged or…

Recorded Webinar: How to harness the power and potential of ownership data

The importance of ownership data has escalated over the past few years as financial institutions have acknowledged its potential. Key use cases include integrated risk assessment, which uses ownership data to help financial institutions gain a clear understanding of supplier and customer networks, and identify and mitigate risk. Equally significant is the use of ownership…

Exchange Data International Releases Readable Corporate Action Notices

Exchange Data International (EDI) has released Readable Corporate Action Notices (RCAN), a solution designed to enable personnel in front- and middle-office buy-side firms to read corporate action notices in the same way as they read news. RCAN is based on machine learning and was developed by EDI. It covers 45 corporate events, including dividends, mergers…

Achieving a 360-degree View of Risk with Data-Driven Insights and Strategies

Technology and data have reached a level of sophistication that is enabling financial institutions to calculate and manage the risks to which their activities and investments are exposed. Leveraging the two, however, is a challenge; if the data isn’t properly managed, the technology that identifies patterns and insights may be unable to operate optimally. One…

Depicting Crypto’s Data Dilemma Before the Next Winter Cold Bites

By Berta Ares Lombán, Head of Digital Assets Financial Information at SIX. The crypto winter, when a basket of leading cryptocurrencies lost around $1.9 trillion in value, put a much-needed spotlight on the long-term future of digital assets. While this is not the first time cryptocurrencies have seen significant adjustments to their valuations, the fallout…

DTCC Partners Snowflake to Improve Data Access, Sharing and Usage Across Services

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is partnering Snowflake to improve how data is accessed, shared and leveraged across a number of its services. Long term, using the Snowflake Data Cloud, DTCC aims to expand market transparency, reduce risk, and provide greater operational efficiency. The partnership extends an existing relationship between the companies and…