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KB Asset Management Singapore Selects SS&C to Power Operations

KB Asset Management Singapore, the asset management arm of Korea’s KB Financial Group, has selected SS&C Technologies’ front-to-back office solution for its operations. The solution includes SS&C’s fund administration and middle-office services, and integrates the Eze Investment Suite for order and portfolio management, compliance, and client reporting. The platform has been implemented to simplify operations…

Recorded Webinar: Deploying knowledge graphs in the real data management world

Knowledge graphs that link data across a wide and diverse range of sources, incorporate both structured and unstructured data, visualise connected data, and provide in-depth contextual search capabilities that deliver business insight without moving data offer great potential for financial institutions. Their use cases range from advanced data integration, unification and analytics to specific functionality…

Vendor Strategy: Alveo Shifts from Professional Services to Managed Services to Broaden Offering Beyond Data Management

Alveo, a provider of market and reference data integration and analytics solutions for financial services firms, has designed its technology to optimise data flows for business user self-service, and provides cloud-native data aggregation and data quality solutions to give  clients access to trusted data while maximising their return on investment. Martijn Groot, vice president of…

How Knowledge Graphs Can Deliver Insights When Integrating Decentralised Data

The majority of large data integration projects falter because systems are developed in a bespoke fashion, leaving organisations with critical applications that have been modified and transformed into a hornet’s nest of code that they cannot unravel for fear of breaking something. So, instead of trying to unravel systems, organisations have tended to duplicate processes,…

Corporate Actions a Challenge? Join Next Week’s A-Team Group Webinar to Find Solutions

Demand for timely and accurate corporate actions data is increasing as the complexity and volumes of events continues to rise, and financial institutions acknowledge the costly gap between accurate corporate actions processing in real, or near-real, time and faulty processing caused by poor data and resulting in missed opportunities to optimise revenue. While many firms…

Moody’s Acquisition of Bogard Expands KYC Coverage for Politically Exposed Persons

Moody’s has acquired Bogard AB, a provider of data and information on politically exposed persons (PEPs) in the Nordic region. The acquisition advances Moody’s ability to help customers perform Know Your Customer (KYC) screening and research to address financial crime. Bogard covers over 17,000 PEPs, relatives, and close associates across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland….

IBA Releases US Dollar SOFR ICE Swap Rate for Use as a Benchmark

Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) business has released its US dollar SOFR ICE Swap Rate for use as a benchmark in financial contracts and financial instruments by licensees. The release follows the successful publication of US dollar SOFR ICE Swap Rate settings on an indicative, ‘Beta’ basis since October 1, 2021, and is…

Baillie Gifford Selects FINBOURNE LUSID as IBOR for Global Investment Operations

Baillie Gifford, a global investment partnership headquartered in Edinburgh, has selected FINBOURNE Technology’s investment data management platform, LUSID, as the Investment Book of Record (IBOR) for its global investment operations. The platform will deliver a consolidated source of real-time investment data across Baillie Gifford’s equity, fixed income and multi-asset portfolios as part of its drive…

Regulatory Data Handbook 2021/2022 – Ninth Edition

Welcome to the ninth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a publication dedicated to helping you gain a full understanding of regulations related to your organisation from the details of requirements to best practice implementation. This edition of the handbook includes a focus on regulations being rolled out to bring order and standardisation to…

DSB Call for Industry Feedback on UPI Legal Terms and Conditions Consultation

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has opened a consultation on the legal terms and conditions, and client support model, expected to apply to users of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) Service, due to launch next year. The consultation sets out a range of proposals aimed to align with industry feedback for the DSB to support…