Investors face significant operational risk challenges, heightened by trend towards niche alternative investment strategies

Screens originator, beneficiary and counter-party transactions against official international sanctions lists

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that its Global Trade Repository (GTR) service, via its legal entity, DTCC Data Repository (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (DDRS), is ready to support in-scope Singapore firms with trade reporting services for the final phase of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) derivatives trade reporting requirements, which are scheduled to take effect on 1 October 2021.

• Retail investor sentiment on euro vs pound sterling sets new bullish record
• Sentiment towards WTI equals high not seen since October 2019
• 61.2m securitised derivatives were traded on Spectrum last month

Iress today announced that it is transitioning its award-winning Execution Management System (EMS) to its cloud platform as part of its trading technology strategy for the UK. The last twelve months have seen exponential growth in usage of Iress’ EMS, in terms of both new clients and trading volume, and the transition to cloud enables Iress to deploy new services and seamlessly scale on demand. 

LEAD Consult, a specialist in providing business and IT consulting services to the financial sector, is proud to announce a new partnership with additiv to meet the growing demand for wealth management services embedded into context-relevant user-journeys.

Timo, Vietnam’s first digital bank, has announced it is partnering with SaaS banking platform Mambu to leverage the benefits of a cloud native core banking platform to significantly scale its business.

Introduction of a single API solution offers a holistic approach to fraud and risk, covering the customer lifecycle across enrolments, payments, change events, compliance, to ongoing KYC and due diligence

Goal Group, the global fintech leader in withholding tax reclamation and securities class action recovery services, is delighted to announce that Vicky Dean has been promoted to Managing Director, EMEA and Global Head of Client Services with immediate effect.

Forecast, the leading AI-native platform for project and resource management, today announces the hire of Simone Goodman as Chief Financial Officer.

Simone’s appointment at Forecast is a new role for the business, intended to support the acceleration of growth and entry of Forecast into the US market, following the successful $19M series A investment led by Balderton.