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SS&C Expands Risk Analytics with Agreement to Buy Algorithmics’ Assets from IBM
SS&C Technologies has reached a definitive agreement to acquire certain Algorithmics’ and related assets from IBM. The addition of Algorithmics, a provider of risk analytics products and capital management solutions, will extend SS&C’s risk analytics and regulatory offering by adding over 200 clients, 350 employees and offices in 25 countries. Client types include banks, broker…
Asset Managers Migrate to the Cloud
IHS Markit research among asset managers in Europe and North America shows an industry segment becoming more strategic in its approach to data management, but not immune to problems including mounting fees, rising costs and demanding regulations. The research notes 52% of firms use the cloud for data management and a further 28% plan to…
Broadridge Releases Cloud-based Data Control Solution Set
Broadridge Financial Solutions has released a cloud-based data control solution set designed to help financial firms address the operational challenges of managing the lifecycle of transaction data. The solution set combines Broadridge’s reconciliation and matching solution with enhanced data analytics, multi-bank connectivity and flexible financial messaging. The aim of the solutions is to provide an…
Recorded Webinar: How to capture and manage complete and accurate customer data
Whether you work on the buy-side or sell-side, the customer is always king. This requires investment banks, asset managers and wealth managers to ensure they have a complete and accurate view of customer data. If you can achieve this, you can take a data-driven approach to decision making whether in obtaining better behavioural insights, offering…
Data Driven Business Change Supersedes Digital Transformation
Digital business transformation must be superseded by data driven transformation if capital markets participants are to hold their own in a competitive market disrupted by start-ups and giants without the legacies of financial institutions. Driving the need to put data at the heart of business are regulation, such as GDPR, which calls on firms to…
CUSIP Global Services Adds ISIN to LEI Mapping for US and Canadian Securities
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has joined the initiative led by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to map ISINs to LEIs. ANNA and GLEIF set up the mapping initiative back in April 2019 with a limited number of National Numbering Agencies within ANNA joining the project, which…
Refinitiv and Trulioo Partner on New Digital Identity Product for KYC
Refinitiv today launched Qual-ID, a new solution combining digital identity verification and document proofing from Trulioo with risk screening from its World Check database to help improve digital onboarding of consumers and compliance with KYC and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations around the world. The launch follows the decision earlier this year to withdraw the firm’s…
Adopting AI for Superior Reconciliations
Firms’ reconciliation and exceptions management processes are manually intensive, expensive and prone to error. With rising compliance costs and greater competition narrowing margins in financial services, firms are looking to streamline their reconciliations processes through automation, giving them the opportunity to reduce the number of exceptions they manage and the time it takes to deal…
LIBOR Change Requirements Mean Major Data Challenges for Financial Firms – Are You Ready?
With the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) ceasing to exist at midnight January 1, 2022, financial services firms around the world are faced with an enormous data management challenge. LIBOR, and the interest rate curves built off of it, are used within a wide variety of financial instruments and products, including derivatives, loans, and bonds….
SmartStream RDU Releases SFTR Security Reference Data Service
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) has extended its offering with a cloud-based security reference data service designed to simplify and enable firms to meet the EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) requirements. SFTR requires banks and investment firms to start reporting securities financing transactions (SFTs) to a registered trade repository beginning April 14, 2020….