Daiwa Securities America has gone live with XcitekSolutionsPlus’s XSP corporate actions processing platform in a record 30-day implementation. The project had been slated for a 60-day rollout. Daiwa opted for XSP in the hopes of reducing its exposure to corporate actions processing failure while preparing for future volume increases. In addition to the XSP software application, Daiwa also licensed Xcitek’s corporate actions data.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
As demand for private markets data accelerates, asset allocators are finding themselves having to play digital catch up with their investor counterparts. General partners (GPs), who manage private funds and allocate capital invested by limited partners (LPs)Â have found themselves technologically behind the curve as institutional investors plough into the once-niche markets. But because LPs are...
The London sustainability breakfast is part of the global roundtable thought leadership event series hosted by RepRisk in key markets, including, New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Hong Kong and Singapore in 2026.
Entity data management is this year’s hot topic as financial firms focus on entity data to gain a better understanding of customers, improve risk management and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Data management programmes that enrich the Legal Entity Identifier with hierarchy data and links to other datasets can also add real value, including new business...
