In a surprise departure, Dessa Glasser has left her role as director within IBM’s Global Services division, where she was a key player in its reference data strategy. It is not clear where she has moved to or who will replace her.
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...
CUSIP Global Services is leveraging its history of servicing syndicated loans, asset-backed securities, options, derivatives and other complex asset classes as it expands into the growing private credit and alternatives space. The Norwalk, Connecticut-headquartered provider of issuer and asset identifiers is working closely with financial digital platform FactSet, the Loan Syndication and Trading Association (LSTA)...
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
After initial hesitancy, interest in digital assets from institutional market participants has grown over the past three to four years. Early focus inevitably centred on the market opportunities presented by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But this has evolved into a broad acceptance of a potentially meaningful role for digital assets in institutional markets. It’s now...
