Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Executive Board Member, SIX. For as long as anyone in the industry can remember, sanctions in financial instruments representing holdings in sanctioned legal entities have been treated as a very specialist concern. They sat with compliance teams and were largely invisible to day-to-day market activity. The issue is...
Regulator-First AI: Vivox Brings Atomic Workflows to Compliance Operations
Artificial intelligence has become a default talking point in financial crime compliance. Yet for many regulated firms, particularly those operating across capital markets, payments, and treasury functions, the challenge is no longer whether AI can be used, but whether it can be deployed in a way regulators will accept. For Vivox AI, a young company...
Cardo AI Q&A: Shining a Light on Private Markets
New York and Milan, Italy-headquartered Cardo AI seeks to bring transparency to private markets for investors, banks and funds. A-team Group’s Data Management Insight spoke to co-founder and chief executive Altin Kadareja about Cardo AI’s mission and operations. Data Management Insight: Hello Altin. When was Cardo AI created and how does it serve financial institutions?...
Re-Architecting Front-Office Resilience with R2R
A Practical Framework for the AI-driven Trading Desk By Vishal Gupta, Executive Director, Head of Equity Derivatives Technology, Mizuho Americas Services The Tier 2 / Tier 3 Resilience Gap Tier 2 and Tier 3 capital markets institutions face a growing resilience challenge in their Front-Office trading environments. Unlike Tier 1 banks, these firms operate with...
LSEG Partners with Apex Group to Connect Private Funds to Digital Markets Infrastructure
London Stock Exchange Group and Apex Group have announced a collaboration to connect private funds to LSEG’s Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), in a move aimed at creating an end-to-end digital distribution network for private markets. The initiative is designed to streamline how fund managers access capital and how investors discover and invest in private funds...
Broadridge to Acquire CQG, Strengthening Execution Layer in Futures and Options
Broadridge has agreed to acquire CQG, in a move that significantly deepens its front-office trading technology capabilities in listed futures and options and strengthens its ambition to deliver an end-to-end, multi-asset execution platform. The acquisition brings CQG’s execution management, algorithmic trading, analytics and exchange connectivity capabilities into Broadridge’s Trading and Connectivity Solutions business, complementing Broadridge’s...
CloudMargin and Derivative Path Partner on Integrated Derivatives and Collateral Management
CloudMargin, the collateral management technology provider, and Derivative Path, the derivatives management platform, have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver an integrated front-to-back workflow for over-the-counter derivatives and collateral management, targeting regional and community banks as well as buy-side institutions. The partnership brings together Derivative Path’s DerivativeEDGE platform and CloudMargin’s cloud-native collateral and margin...
ace Seeks to Disrupt the Very Idea of ‘Digital’ for Financial Institutions
For more than a decade, financial institutions have been told to go digital. Data strategies have been written, platforms migrated to the cloud, and front-end experiences wrapped in slick apps. But for Niamh Kingsley, founder of ace, that conversation is already out of date. Her new firm, launched in November as a specialist post-digital advisory...
Arcesium Aquata Update Deploys AI to Give ‘Purpose’ to Extracted Data
Giving structure to unstructured data has become indispensable to private market investors, who must deal with what must feel, to the much of rest of the digitised financial world, like relics from antiquity – PDFs, spreadsheets, emails and even paper documents. But the question that hangs over many solutions is what next? What happens to that data...
Teciem Launches with New Investment Focus on Treasury, Capital Markets, Risk and Regulatory Technology
When Teciem formally launched as a standalone company in early February, it marked the culmination of a process that had been several years in the making. The business, formerly Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets (TCM) unit, now operates independently with a singular focus: delivering mission-critical technology for treasury, capital markets, risk management and regulatory compliance....