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Standard Chartered invests in crypto-asset platform One Trading

Standard Chartered's investment arm, SC Ventures, has joined a funding round for European crypto-asset exchange One Trading.

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Driving decisions through cloud migration and data governance

In today’s environment, data is produced and consumed at a rapid pace. However, the way it is currently being stored, accessed, and processed is inefficient.

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All roads lead to the cloud for risk management in capital markets

Capital markets firms are acknowledging that the cloud is a catalyst for establishing competitive advantage and the financial services sector has been taking steps to prioritise digital transformation.

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New blockchain utility claims to cut 80-90% of MiFID costs

A new blockchain-based reporting platform set to launch later this year has vowed to cut 80-90% of asset managers' regulatory reporting costs once it goes live later this year.

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Tisa selects Atos for MiFID II blockchain utility for asset management industry

Tisa, the UK’s cross-industry financial services membership body, has called in Atos to build a European MiFID II blockchain utility for the asset management industry.

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Standardised data reporting is the lynchpin for future of sustainable finance

In a recent survey by State Street Global Advisors, 52% of European investors cited regulation as the key driver toward ESG adoption. Yet, despite attempts to introduce regulatory requirements, a lack of standardisation in reporting obligations is proving a significant challenge towards achieving meaningful progress.

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Increasing compute power with the cloud

The instantaneous availability of compute power in the cloud is supporting an explosion of data consumption in the financial services industry. In order to manage the vast amount of information in competitive and fragmented markets and derive actionable insights, a new approach to data management is essential. And financial institutions (FIs) are increasingly looking to the cloud.

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Sibos 2019: Post-snub insights from LSE and HKEX

After the London Stock Exchange snubbed Hong Kong’s $36.6 billion buyout bid earlier this month, day two of Sibos 2019 in London kicked off with PwC’s Jeremy Grant engaging in fireside chats with both LSE CEO David Schwimmer and HKEX CEO Charles Li.

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Incumbents vs neobanks: Leverage new technology or risk crumbling

Financial institutions are focusing heavily on digital transformation driving innovation, better customer experience and cost reduction as they shift gears from simply meeting regulatory and compliance needs to remain relevant in a digital world.

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Compliance in the cloud for a demanding regulatory environment

The cloud has fundamentally altered the economics and time to value of risk management and regulatory reporting. By allowing banks to handle the real-time, daily and periodic nature of regulatory reporting in an elastic manner, cloud computing has also provided cost-effective, long-term (and immutable) data storage to respond to queries from regulators.

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EBA urges EU rules on crypto-assets

The European Banking Authority is calling on the EU to look into whether there should be a block-wide regulatory approach to crypto-assets.

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CBA and ING partner on RegTech pilot

Commonwealth Bank of Australia and ING have carried out a RegTech pilot which saw them use AI to simplify the processing of regulatory information.

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Goldman Sachs leads $38m Visible Alpha funding round

Investment research technology firm Visible Alpha has expanded its roster of big Wall Street name backers and set its sights on MiFID-led European growth after closing a $38 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs.

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Lombard Risk agrees to Vermeg takeover offer

The board of UK-based banking and compliance software firm Lombard Risk has accepted a cash for shares offer from Dutch software firm Vermeg.

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ESMA delays MiFID II rules on dark pool caps

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has delayed the introduction of new rules on dark pool trading, a key part of its MiFID II initiative.

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MiFID II arrives: now the hard work starts

MiFID II,the biggest shake-up in financial regulation for a decade may have arrived, but for asset managers and brokers across Europe the work continues as the complexity and costs of full compliance begin to emerge.

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Banks tap Ethereum smart contracts for MiFID II compliance

As MiFID II looms into view, Swiss bank UBS is leading a pilot that will use Ethereum smart contracts to improve the quality of counterparty reference data through anonymous reconciliation.

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Can regtech and CLM save the customer experience? - new Finextra report

Increased regulatory burden is hampering smooth and timely onboarding of customers, as banks struggle with technology implementation and budget parameters, according to financial industry professionals surveyed in a new paper by Finextra Research.

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Researchers bring atomic clock timestamp precision to stock trading over distributed ledgers

In a move that could aid MiFID II compliance, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX) and the UK's National Physical Laboratory have carried out an experiment which saw atomic clocks used to timestamp trades which were then recorded directly on a distributed ledger.

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ICE brings precise timing to UK data centre for MiFID II compliance

In a high-frequency trading world where every microsecond counts, Intercontinental Exchange has struck a deal with the UK's National Physical Laboratory to ensure co-location customers at its data centre in Basildon get precise timing.