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An overwhelming majority (85 per cent) of financial services professionals predict that demand for RegTech solutions will continue to grow until at least 2020 as the wave of new regulation a decade after the financial crisis shows no sign of abating.
Intertrust, a global leader in providing expert administrative services to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, surveyed over 500 executives covering the asset management, corporate, capital markets and private wealth sectors to identify the impact of RegTech on mounting regulatory and compliance obligations.
Private equity professionals predict the highest levels of demand for RegTech solutions
By Shankar Iyer CEO, Viteos – Shadow-accounting has moved beyond the simple verification of Net Asset Value (NAV). Outsourcing the in-house accounting function, in part or full, is increasingly recognised as bringing significant value to the business via automation and best industry practices, which may not be in the purvey of internal teams, principally because the shadow provider performs these practices across various managers and funds.
Indeed, scalability in this context can work two ways: not only does shadow-accounting empower fund managers to freely explore new asset classes or investment strategies, and provide operational flexibility, it allows them to work
It is very easy to look at the price of bitcoin and assume that it is way too volatile, perhaps even worthless, and unworthy of wasting one’s investment dollars on. At USD3,236 the price is way off the heights of last December, when it spiked over USD19,000.
But regardless of what one thinks of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether and other variants, they are but one manifestation of a new digital era that could change the very fabric of how we live and, more importantly, do business.
Underpinning cryptocurrencies, and every ICO you hear about being launched, is blockchain technology.
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GTS, an electronic market maker across global financial instruments, has acquired an ownership stake in Wavelength Capital Management, a New York-based systematic investment firm.
Wavelength was founded five years ago as an independent investment management firm specialising in liquid, transparent, and cost-effective investment solutions designed to protect assets and produce consistent returns in any economic environment. The firm invests using a systematic, research-driven approach that applies quantitative tools to process fundamental economic and market information. Wavelength’s flagship fixed income mutual fund, the Wavelength Interest Rate Neutral Fund (WAVLX), seeks to generate consistent returns in any interest rate environment using systematic
Incident response planning has become a key requirement for all types of businesses, not just financial firms, as people try to maintain a strong security posture in the face of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. Knowing how to achieve this, however, is a detailed exercise in which companies must invest sufficient attention.
This was the focus of a recent webinar hosted by Eze Castle Integration entitled, “Cybersecurity Incident Response: Before, During and After”, hosted by ECI Certified Business Continuity and Data Privacy Consultants, Matt Donahue and Jeremy Ross.
An incident response lifecycle approach has four separate parts: i) Preparation, ii) Detection
IHS Markit has expanded its alternative data offering for asset managers with the launch of new stock selection and strategy signals covering the automotive sector.
Covering more than 30 auto manufacturers worldwide and providing more than 10 years of historical data, the 32 new factors are designed to assist in the prediction of stock returns using analytics derived from company-specific datapoints on sales, production and market share. They include multiple financial factors for revenue and sales as well as novel factors covering production of electric vehicles and plant utilisation.
Analysis by the Research Signals service at IHS Markit finds positive alpha
MDX Technology’s Project IOWA, a market data business driven ecosystem, has formed a strategic partnership with FactEntry, an independent provider of bond data and documents which supports the needs of fixed income and credit professionals.
MDX Technology is recognised as the industry standard in providing data capture & contribution solutions direct to end user consumers, Project IOWA brings these two worlds together. The FactEntry partnership is the first in a number of specialist data content collaborations the Project IOWA team will be announcing throughout 2019.
Project IOWA is underpinned by MDX’s market leading technology and provides a single and
Vaultex is to employ Cinnober’s TRADExpress Trading System and TRADExpress RealTime Clearing for its new Singapore-based security token and tokenised asset exchange for institutional investors, hedge funds and other eligible market participants.
The new exchange will leverage Cinnober’s established trading and clearing systems, which will provide the resilient and reliable technological backbone needed to operate an advanced marketplace.
“Cinnober was a clear choice for Vaultex, in our quest to build a highly scalable, efficient and modern electronic exchange, they stood out from other solution providers,” says Jeffrey Premer, CEO of Vaultex. “Their experienced team and world-class technologies proven by traditional
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has partnered with Xceptor, a specialist in data-centric intelligent automation software, to enable clients to leverage Xceptor’s data transformation capabilities within DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) for Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR).
The partnership is aiming to lessen the operational burden for firms’ by enabling them to enrich, normalise and validate data before submitting it to a trade repository. Firms will be able to enrich reporting with both internal and external reference data, manage exceptions leveraging native workflows, and benefit from real-time gap analysis and testing.
“With data being one of the
Capital markets software firm genesis and OpenFin are partnering to provide clients with scalable and interoperable technology and desktop solutions, built and deployed at great speed.
The partnership aims to help drive front to back office digital transformation projects across capital markets – from the server to the desktop – bringing together genesis’ ability for agile software development and OpenFin’s application interoperability across financial desktops.
genesis provides a micro-services technology framework designed specifically for the world of capital markets, to address the digitisation challenges participants face as they look to meet the growing demand for smarter, end-to-end workflows
