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Regulatory Reporting: Best Practices in 2024 and Beyond
Regulatory reporting can often feel like an endless and expensive grind. Achieving reporting excellence demands robust data governance, seamless automated data collection, standardized reporting formats, a centralized system, and a proactive approach to regulatory changes. While these requirements are well-understood, they are hard to implement. But emerging AI-powered solutions are beginning to show efficiency gains…
Mastering Data Compliance: Strategies to Overcome the Data Mountain
By Adam Quirke, Business Development Lead, Financial Services, InterSystems UK & Ireland. With the financial sector’s regulation landscape continuously evolving, compliance officers at financial institutions play a crucial role in maintaining integrity and trust. They maintain compliance despite a growing burden of responsibilities and the increasingly acute problem of legacy technology, which lacks agility, requires…
Trading Technologies Unveils Futures TCA and Multi-Asset Trade Surveillance Solutions
Capital markets technology provider Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), has introduced two new offerings to its solution suite, enhancing its Data & Analytics and Compliance business lines: TT Trade Surveillance and TT Futures TCA. TT Trade Surveillance, powered by TT’s proprietary SCORE machine learning algorithm, expands the company’s surveillance capabilities across multiple asset classes, including…
Datactics Enhances Augmented Data Quality Solution with Magic Wand and Rule Wizard
Datactics has enhanced the Augmented Data Quality Solution (ADQ) it brought to market in November 2023 with the addition of an AI magic wand, Snowflake connectivity and an SQL rule wizard in ADQ v1.4. The company is also working towards the release of ADQ v1.5 that will include generative AI (GenAI) rules and predictive remediation…
Finbourne Raises £55m to Fund Overseas Expansion
Finbourne Technology has received a £55 million capital injection to fund the international expansion of the investment data management solutions provider’s AI-enabled data and tools service. The London-based company raised the money in a Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Highland Europe and AXA Venture Partners (AVP). It follows a £15m cash…
Global Indices Launch Marks SIX’s Latest Expansion of ETF Business
SIX, the data aggregator and operator of Swiss and Spanish stock exchanges, has expanded its indexing business with the creation of two families of global equities indices that can be used by the company’s retail, private banking and asset management clients. The SIX World Indices provide a broad view of global markets through a diversified and…
Generative AI Poised for Leading Role as Regulatory Data Burden Grows
Amidst the hype around Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), practitioners are beginning to realise that these emerging technologies can make a positive impact on the collection and validation of regulatory data. The categories and scope of regulatory data requirements have expanded considerably in response to rapid market developments and growing regulatory scrutiny….
Financial Firms Reliant on Management by Policy for Comms Compliance, Survey Finds
Management by policy – specifically bans on communications channels, particularly WhatsApp – remains the most the most common approach among financial institutions to ensuring secure, compliant communications, according to a survey from archiving specialist Global Relay. Although the figure dropped by 15% from a year, 43% of survey respondents said bans were their preferred solution….
Data Mesh and The People Problem
Since their conceptualisation five years ago, data meshes have yet to achieve the outright transformation of data management that many had forecast. That is not the fault of the concept or its philosophical underpinnings, but an issue of human nature, argues one of the technology’s proponents. Data Virtuality’s Tammie Coles believes that the key ingredient…
The Top 12 Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Solutions in 2024
Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) has evolved significantly in recent years. In its early days, with limited tools and methods available for detailed cost analysis, the focus of TCA was on simple measures of trading costs, such as commissions and fees, with basic benchmarks like VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) and TWAP (Time Weighted Average Price)…