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TradingTech Summit Opens with Focus on Digital Transformation
A-Team Group’s TradingTech Summit, hosted in New York City earlier this week, opened with a focus on digital transformation and its impact on business. Simon Letort, chief digital officer and head of innovation at Société Générale Americas, presented a keynote covering innovation and digital change at the bank, and how it is building a shared…
A-Team Group Announces Winners of its 2019 TradingTech Insight North America Awards
Congratulations to the winners of A-Team Group’s 2019 TradingTech Insight (TTI) North America Awards. The awards were celebrated during a lively drinks reception hosted by A-Team president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney after the close of the company’s TradingTech Summit in New York City on June 11, 2019. The awards recognise excellence in trading…
Velocimetrics Raises the Bar on Real-time Data Tracking and Analysis by Implementing InfluxDB in VMX EndToEnd
Velocimetrics has released version 9.0 of its VMX EndToEnd business flow tracking and real-time, in-stream performance analytics, making a step change in functionality and recognising the trading industry’s move towards devops and need for an holistic understanding of all data across the business, as well as a detailed view of specific trading processes. VMX EndToEnd…
SS&C upgrades Advent solutions
SS&C Technologies has released version 19.1 of its Advent portfolio management solutions. The Advent products, acquired in 2015, include Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), a portfolio accounting and reporting solution that includes a new API for portfolios and token-based authentication capabilities. APX regulatory reporting is also improved. Advent Genesis, a cloud-based rebalancing, portfolio construction and trade…
FRTB 2022 Deadline Proves Tricky for Firms and Regulators
Global regulatory implementation of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS) Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) may be unevenly paced, creating challenges for financial institutions and regulators alike. FRTB was introduced to fix problems that both regulators and the industry perceived with so-called ‘Basel 2.5’ market risk changes, which were put in place…
How to Source and Manage Data for FRTB – The Challenges and Opportunities
Sourcing and managing data for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) compliance is no mean feat, but there are options and choices to be made as firms within the scope of the regulation build out compliance programmes ahead of its January 2022 deadline. A panel session at A-Team Group’s recent FRTB briefing in London…
Shield Adds Surveillance for Microsoft Teams
RegTech provider Shield Financial Compliance has integrated its platform with Microsoft Teams, a chat room and team collaboration solution in Office 365 that integrates people, content and tools. The integration provides full surveillance of Microsoft Teams and records and searches interactions, providing the ability to extract, review and analyse specific conversations to assist with investigation…
Finnish Asset Manager Evli Goes Live on IHS Markit thinkFolio
Evli, a Finnish investment and asset management specialist, has gone live on thinkFolio, IHS Markit’s order management and portfolio modelling system. The multi-asset class support provided by thinkFolio was the driving factor in Evli’s decision to implement the solution. The asset manager is using thinkFolio’s full front office functionality across order management, portfolio modelling, cash…
Liquidnet Acquisition of RSRCHXchange Extends Research and AI Capabilities
Liquidnet’s acquisition of RSRCHXchange, a marketplace and aggregator for institutional research, allows the company’s platform to deliver a new level of research and analytics into the global investment process for its institutional investor client base. It also furthers the company’s AI strategy. RSRCHXchange, a solution for unbundling, was created ahead of the introduction of the…
Effective Surveillance Can Only be Achieved with Communications Coupled with Market Data Analysis
By Ofir Shabtai, CTO and Co-Founder of Shield FC. Whilst enterprise software applications have proven effective at flagging up possible noncompliance events, once an exchange is flagged, it is largely down to the compliance team to follow through with the necessary investigation directly. With the considerable challenges of monitoring modern data-driven financial markets, it’s essential…