One of Swift’s biggest pushes for the securities sector as part of its new 2015 strategy is in the securities matching services space. During the Sibos 2010 opening plenary, Swift played the following video, demonstrating industry perspectives on this initiative. Reference Data Review elaborated on the utility versus competitive approach.
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...
Modern Chief Data Officers are not only the guardians of financial institutions’ data estates, they are also the caretakers of their single-biggest asset. With every part of an organisation’s business now dependent on data, the custody of its digital information is every bit as critical to operations as the management of trading teams or even...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
The US corporate actions market has long been characterised as paper-based and manually intensive, but it seems that much progress is being made of late to tackle the lack of automation due to the introduction of four little letters: XBRL. According to a survey by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and standards...