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Digitalising Financial Markets with Data-as-a-Service

Data-as-a-Service

How ipushpull cloud-enables firms to seamlessly share live, streaming, and on-demand data with Data-as-a-Service.

There have been many unpredicted outcomes from the current COVID-19 pandemic, but one of the more interesting ones has been the rapid acceleration of digitalisation. How rapid? Well, earlier this year, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella stated that they’d seen two years’ worth of digital transformation occur within the space of two months, something that was inconceivable at the start of the year. While IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna said “history will look back on this as the moment when the digital transformation of business and society suddenly accelerated”.

Like many other industries, the financial markets sector, with so many staff confined to working from home in 2020, has suffered severe disruption to existing workflows, forcing firms to readjust their working practices.

But with every challenge comes opportunity, and the savvier firms are looking not only at how to get through the current situation, but how they can transform their business for the better over the longer term by utilising Cloud – and specifically Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) – as an enabling technology.

What is DaaS & what can it offer?

Data-as-a-Service provides the ability to seamlessly connect your data to the right person, at the right time, in the right application. This means that you can share your data – which could be sitting in a database, in a platform, or even in a spreadsheet – with your clients, your counterparties, or your colleagues, directly into applications they’re already using. Excel spreadsheets, chat platforms, chatbots, even internal platforms via an API, for example.

ipushpull’s approach to DaaS is to integrate into both legacy and cloud-based technologies, enabling firms to access and share live, streaming, and on-demand data across the entire trade lifecycle, from the front office through to the middle and back office.

To offer a few examples, live data might be an investment bank distributing live ‘high touch’ bond axes to the buyside’s spreadsheets, OMS or chat platform. Streaming data could be where a market-maker is constantly updating quotes from an internal pricing engine, or a broker client workflow of publishing real-time prices to clients in a ‘call around market’. And on-demand means that end users can pull the most up-to-date data from any data source. Ops users may be pulling down the latest list of ISINs to match to RIC codes for example, or risk managers might need to see live P&Ls in Symphony or Slack.

All of this needs to come with the requisite enterprise security, control, and audit necessary for financial markets.

Embracing the Cloud

Historically, data sharing in capital markets has been problematic. Either it’s been done manually, through emails, file sharing, and copying/pasting data – which is then very hard to streamline, automate, and audit – or firms have had to use expensive developers to connect data together, with none of it being ‘out of the box.’

ipushpull bundles all the data and tasks that were spread across spreadsheets, email and file shares into a new structured flow into any connected application. Utilising the Cloud as an enabling technology means you can share data inter as well as intra company. You can share data to trigger workflows with external clients, customers, and teams, and do it in any application via plug and play. And using the Cloud means it’s incredibly scalable, it’s significantly cheaper than trying to build it yourself, and it has a fast time to market.

The Cloud also offers several commercial benefits for both the suppliers of data and the end-users. From the end-user perspective, only paying for what you need allows you to match and scale your operational costs more closely with your trading activity, for example.

Beneficial use cases

Where our customers already have the data and the platform, but may lack the distribution into end-user applications, they have successfully used ipushpull either for the first or the last mile of connectivity.

The first mile is where data may be unstructured or sitting in an application or system that generally does not have any external connectivity. By connecting into ipushpull, data can be securely pushed into the Cloud and then made available elsewhere.

The last mile is about getting data into the applications or tools that your clients or your teams already use, so nothing new needs to be installed. That data can be coming directly into spreadsheets, into chat, or collaborative apps such as Symphony or Slack, or straight into your internal blotters or platforms that you might be using for that last mile of distribution.

Importantly, nothing is on-premise. Everything happens via the Cloud. Rather than engage costly development teams, or rely on manual processes where someone has to copy and paste from one application to another and send it to a counterparty who is doing something similar – a process that involves lots of manual tasks, emails, spreadsheets, copy/pasting and the like – by moving to this new way of data sharing, it unlocks both technical efficiency and automation, which means your staff can spend their time on higher-value activities or things that only humans can do such as being creative, complex decision making or speaking to clients.

A growing number of firms, including panelists from our recent webinar, such as NatWest Markets and Euromoney TRADEDATA, are now utilising different flavours of the examples given above. All of them are using ipushpull to accelerate digital initiatives to widen digital distribution channels and provide better experience for their clients and workflow efficiency and automation for end-users.

Conclusion

The digitalisation of these types of use cases will become more commonplace as people question why they are still using manual processes or one-off development projects to share data. As Data-as-a-Service becomes more prominent and firms look for technical efficiency and automation, we’ll see this new way of sharing data becoming the norm.

We see it already in the digitisation and electronification of OTC markets, where manual processes make way for standardised delivery of prices and workflow, but why stop there? Live data sharing can be ubiquitous internally across the firm, and externally to clients and counterparts – all of this being accelerated by the Cloud and by integrations into financial networks like Symphony, Refinitiv, Bloomberg, Broadridge, DTCC, Markit, etc.

In the post-COVID landscape, there is no new norm anymore. There is only a future state. As working practices change, workflow needs to be more efficient, and data needs to be easy to access, secure and access-controlled.

As we move towards live data-driven workflows, people need to be able to seamlessly connect to data in any application in real-time, at the right time, at the right place, and from any location.

We’re seeing Data-as-a-Service being adopted across sales and trading, between sell-side and buy-side, and across technology vendors. All of them are providing a better and more efficient experience for their clients.

It’s time to move away from manual processes, emails, spreadsheets, and copy/paste and away from embarking on expensive development projects to connect data from one app to another. Instead, look to incorporate Data-as-a-Service into your digital transformation projects or as a new digital distribution channel.

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Using Data-as-a-Service to Accelerate Digital Initiatives

Data-as-a-Service

Financial markets firms are increasingly capitalising on their data by taking advantage of cloud-based technologies that enable them to seamlessly connect with desktop applications. In a recent webinar, industry experts discussed how Data-as-a-Service enhances client experience, widens digital distribution channels and provides better workflow efficiency and automation for end-users.

Microsoft reported a record fiscal year in July 2020 with commercial cloud revenues surpassing $50bn for the first time, an increase of more than a third from a year ago. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, said on the earnings call that the previous five months had shown that digital technology intensity is key to business resilience. Nadella said: “Organisations that build their own digital capability will recover faster and emerge from this crisis stronger. We are seeing businesses accelerate the digitisation of every part of their operations to reimagine how they meet customer needs.”

Financial services firms have needed to digitise as Covid-19 has forced working from home while maintaining the same service to their clients. The Realization Group hosted a webinar in July 2020 with a panel of experts to discuss how firms of all sizes, from the sell side to the buy side, can use Data-as-a-Service to emerge better, faster and stronger in the post-pandemic world.

Data sharing in capital markets has historically been a very manual process, involving emails, file sharing and copy and pasting. Matthew Cheung, chief executive of ipushpull, explained that Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) allows firms to automate this process and seamlessly connect their data to their clients while providing the first or last mile of connectivity to end-user applications.

The fintech ‘pulls’ the required information from a database, a platform or even a spreadsheet and ‘pushes’ it to recipients in applications they already use, such as Excel spreadsheets or a chat platform. Clients will have preferences on whether that data is live, streaming or on-demand and DaaS can also meet the capital markets regulatory requirements of security controls and audit trails.

“The cloud is an enabling technology so Data-as-a-Service allows firms to share data in any application and it is all plug-and-play,” Cheung added. “Covid-19 has accelerated cloud adoption and digital transformation projects across markets.”

This was backed up by a poll which found that the vast majority of the audience, 85%, had heard of DaaS. In addition, Covid-19 was the top factor driving their firm’s digital transformation with 30% of the vote.

Capital markets firms have traditionally built their own technology but John Macpherson, deputy chair of the Investment Association’s advisory panel for Engine, a fintech accelerator for the asset management industry, said that ship has sailed. More than half, 58%, of the audience agreed as they said they would buy, rather than build, DaaS technology.

Macpherson added: “The buy side very much looks at DaaS as a cost-efficient responsive service that allows them to focus on selling their products.”

Data-as-a-Service also creates a faster path to innovation, giving firms a more agile decision making process and a more data-driven culture which lowers risk and leads to higher revenues.

“Once these dots are connected DaaS will become more prevalent,” said Macpherson. “There are phenomenal opportunities from getting the right data at the right moment in the right format so that people can make better decisions.”

Patrick Flannery, co-founder and chief executive of data infrastructure provider MayStreet, broke down the four stages of using data effectively – collection, storage, transformation and delivery. Each stage presents a challenge, for example, storing large amounts of data can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per month in each region. Flannery said: “Firms will have an ocean of unstructured data. They need to pull out the relevant piece and then integrate it into their downstream workflow. Giving it a go themselves may actually give them a first-hand view of the resources needed to do it right and push them into the direction of DaaS.”

Julien Dugat, fixed income client execution platforms and digital sales at NatWest Markets, explained that the main reason the bank chose to use ipushpull, rather than build, was the speed to market of using an off-the-shelf product.

“You don’t need to spend ages customising the product and integrating it with your own data feed, so you can get going really quickly”, Dugat added.

NatWest Markets uses electronic venues’ FIX API’s and ipushpull to distribute tens of thousands of daily axes to clients more efficiently than through phone calls or emails. Automating the process means the axes are always up-to-date, actionable, relevant and easy to access by clients. The bank sends a stream of live data to the ipushpull cloud and clients can pull the data in their preferred format, such as Excel or a Symphony chat. The majority of the audience, 63%, said they would prefer to use Data-as-a-Service through APIs, followed by Excel and then Symphony apps and bots.

Dugat said: “Clients don’t need to install anything on their desktop but can, for example, access our data through Symphony or the ipushpull web app or mobile app so it is a very low barrier to entry.”

The NatWest sales desks also use ipushpull to easily send highly targeted relevant axes to specific clients. A client may want auto sector bonds, and the salesperson can filter the axes and send them by clicking one button. Clients can also trade axes more efficiently as the bank has integrated ipushpull with SCOUT, an execution bot in Symphony.

Dugat said: “It is about getting the right data to the right person at the right time. Rather than just inundating everybody with lots of data, we make it relevant.”

Mark Woolfenden, managing director of futures and options reference data supplier Euromoney TRADEDATA highlighted that DaaS provides opportunities for small and medium-sized firms to access the same high-quality data as large firms, as they would be able to pay just for the data they used.

“More flexible business models could include offering data on-demand as part of the trade lifecycle from pre-trade risk validation to post-trade regulatory compliance and portfolio management,” Woolfenden added.

Cheung concluded that he expects digitisation and DaaS to become more common. He said: “Moving to this new way of data sharing unlocks efficiency and automation, so humans can spend time on higher-value tasks.”

Contact ipushpull at sales@ipushpull.com for further information or for a live demo of Data-as-a-Service in action.

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Enabling Data-as-a-Service on Legacy Platforms

Enabling Data-as-a-Service on Legacy Platforms

In a previous blog, we wrote about the competitive edge that data-rich financial institutions and solution vendors can gain by offering ‘Data-as-a-Service‘.

But what are some of the key considerations when it comes to cloud-enabling a firm’s existing legacy platforms? How difficult is it to offer live data or real-time data sharing through commonly used desktop apps such as Excel?

A bank, broker or asset manager might want to take on-premise data that sits on an internal platform – trade data for example – and seamlessly share that to the cloud, thus removing the need for end users to be onsite or to remote desktop in via a VPN.

Or a solution vendor with products designed for on-premise installation or access via dedicated lines and specific client software, might wish to go cloud-based in order to offer real-time or on-demand data sharing into existing applications and workflows without its customers having to rely on clunky FTP or building to APIs.

The good news is that enabling Data-as-a-Service on these legacy platforms is not as difficult as it might seem.

 

Enabling Data-as-a-Service on Legacy Platforms –

Real-time data sharing in the real world

Amongst financial institutions, many firms, on both the buy side and the sell side, are looking to gain greater leverage from their own internal systems by cloud-enabling them, thus improving the service they offer to internal colleagues and external clients. Whether that’s through making real-time data available within chat and collaborative workflow apps, feeding live data to and from Excel or sharing data via other desktop apps, there are many benefits that such an approach offers.

A good real-world example of this is the e-commerce fixed income department of a well-known bank, which uses its own internally-developed platform to generate trade axes from its current bond inventory. Working together with ipushpull, the bank has cloud-enabled this internal platform with secure, real-time data sharing, so that customers are automatically updated with new trade axes via their own choice of desktop apps (such as Symphony or Excel) and can respond with indications of interest directly from within those apps.

From a solution vendor perspective, there are many companies that have fantastic products and services, but live data sharing is restricted by the fact that their customers need to have software installed onsite or can only access data through FTP or API integration with a centralised service. A number of these vendors are now seeing the benefits of cloud-enabling these platforms to offer Data-as-a-Service.

Again, it’s worth citing a couple of real-world examples.

The first is a risk solution vendor that offers intra-day margin calculations. They have a great product that enables customers to load up their position data and calculate span margining for those positions on the fly. However, the product was originally designed to be installed on premise at the customer’s site, which made it expensive and meant that it could only be sold to larger institutions. By working with ipushpull to create a multi-tenant version with a secure cloud presentation layer, the vendor can broaden the service out to a wider, more diverse customer base and offer more affordable subscription-based or on-demand pricing models.

The second example is a data vendor that has a centralised multi-tenant platform, where customers download large data files and upload trade files via secure FTP. Again, their legacy installation and onboarding process meant that their commercial model was limited to larger customers. ipushpull helped the vendor cloud-enable this service to make the data available on demand, which has now opened up the service to a much wider group of potential customers.

 

Seamless integration of data sharing tools

The common thread with all of these legacy systems is that they handle data, with a set of inputs and outputs. And there is no fundamental, technical reason why they should not be cloud-enabled with data sharing tools.

This is what ipushpull does. At the front end, we deliver these systems as true services with a unified presentation layer via the common desktop apps that people are already using. At the back end we develop APIs that plug into these legacy technologies. From the perspective of both service providers and end users, this is a completely seamless process. Services  connect to ipushpull via the cloud and we take care of the rest, i.e. marshalling the data, providing access controls, presenting the data into multiple desktop apps and marshalling data back and forth to the service from within those apps in real-time.

Service providers benefit from not only being able to offer live and on-demand access through desktop apps like Excel, Slack, Symphony, Microsoft Teams and Eikon messenger, desktop containers like ChartIQ Finsemble and Openfin, and internal platforms and applications like pricing engines, risk systems and OMSs, without have to completely re-platform their existing systems, but also being able to deliver data-driven custom notifications into those apps based upon user-defined parameters.

In summary, Data-as-a-Service offers many benefits, and there is no reason that firms should be restricted to on-premise deployment or to API/SFTP integration. By working with a trusted partner such as ipushpull, firms that are looking to cloud-enable their internal platforms can minimise their internal development costs, broaden their reach and rapidly accelerate their time to market.

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Download “Fintech’s Next Frontier: Data-as-a-Service” our Financial Markets Insights report. In collaboration with Natwest Markets, Maystreet, Euromoney TRADEDATA and Engine, part of The Investment Association, ipushpull explores the importance of Data-as-a-Service in facilitating remote working and accelerating digital initiatives within the financial markets industry.

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Data Connectivity Essential For Remote Work

Remote work

Extracted from the article “Data Connectivity essential for remote work” by Shanny Basar.

Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, said there had been an increase in interest in the company’s ability to provide live data sharing as more staff are working remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cheung told Markets Media: “The cloud has a couple of silver linings. As more people are working remotely, firms want the ability to share data in real-time while maintaining their institutional controls over access.”

London-based ipushpull allows users to securely share data in real-time across desktop applications, databases, messaging platforms and cloud services.

Cloud technology

The Data-as-a-Service platform was launched three years ago and allows data to be easily shared using cloud technology.

“Cloud deployment was a big challenge in capital markets,”Cheung added. “An enormous tanker started slowly turning three years ago at a slow pace and has picked up speed in the last 12 months.”

He predicted there will be an acceleration in deployment of the cloud in the next nine to 12 months, especially as the Covid-19 pandemic has caused staff to work from remote locations while still needing access to real-time data.

In capital markets ipushpull has initially focussed on non-exchange traded assets that require manual processes. For example, when dealers make prices for options in Excel spreadsheets and then have to copy and paste the information into emails for distribution. ipushpull has been used by an interdealer-broker to automate this process by uploading the excel data into the cloud so it can  be shared live it in various formats such via chat or an API.

“We make the data interoperable enabling live collaboration,”added Cheung.

Data-as-a-Service

Financial institutions such as NatWest Markets and data vendors such as Euromoney Tradedata use ipushpull to deliver data direct to their clients.

To learn more about Data-as-a-Service and how institutions are utilising the ipushpull platform read the full Markets Media article by Shanny Basar.

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ipushpull sees cloud adoption streamline financial markets workflows

financial markets workflows

In recent months ipushpull has onboarded several new Capital Markets customers. In each case the customer has selected a cloud-deployed instance of ipushpull hosted on Amazon Web Services, our cloud partner, for their financial markets workflows.

While adoption of the cloud is widespread in other industries, enterprises in financial markets have long been reluctant to deploy to the cloud. Concerns around security, regulatory compliance and data privacy are commonly cited, not to mention pre-existing investment in expensive on-premises infrastructure. But this landscape is changing as market participants recognise that cloud can be cheaper and more secure than on-premise, and as they begin to appreciate the many additional advantages that cloud services bring. For example, one key feature of cloud services that’s frequently raised during our conversations with our capital markets network is the availability of sophisticated computing resources such as machine learning and AI – resources that are difficult to replicate internally.

Even the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) has given its seal of approval to cloud vendors and is “seeking to leverage cloud in order to improve service value and control risk”. They “see no fundamental reason why cloud services cannot be implemented in a manner that complies with [their] rules”. This progressive view towards cloud, by one of the world’s leading regulatory bodies, further helps to drive cloud adoption. In turn, this helps to drive innovation across huge banking digital transformation projects through faster time to market, better agility and almost infinite scalability.

Cloud deployments are also particularly suited to the kind of cross-market data distribution and buy-side/sell-side workflow automation applications enabled by ipushpull. The cloud provides the simple connectivity that’s essential for implementing real-time data workflows between sell-side and buy-side counterparties and enabling secure distribution of reference data to thousands of consumers.

 

Which companies are moving their financial markets workflows to the cloud?

ipushpull is core to the risk management process at Amplify Trading, the global trading and trading education provider, where they use our service for real-time position tracking and risk aggregation across their global trading team. Traders in multiple locations push live trading data to ipushpull, where it is aggregated and used to generate live reports for risk and portfolio managers. Will de Lucy, Amplify’s Managing Director, says:

“The ability to access critical information from any location and on different devices means the team can also monitor live prices in real-time in and out the office”.

Workflows with other customers include real-time axe distribution and reference data-as-a-service (DaaS). While the specific workflows may be different, in every case the cloud approach has enabled fast onboarding and rapid, iterative implementation, thereby providing a competitive advantage.

Attitudes to the perceived risk of the cloud are changing, computing power is growing, and machine learning and data analytics are adding value to business. And as costs continue to fall the cloud will continue to rise. To find out how ipushpull can help you in your cloud journey, please get in touch.

 

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ipushpull sponsors Symphony Innovate Asia 2019 – Singapore

Symphony Innovate Asia 2019

On June 13th 2019, ipushpull will be sponsoring Symphony Innovate Asia 2019, being held this year in the sunny Lion City of Singapore. The long-awaited exotic event features insightful talks and a showcase of the latest innovations for a gathering of financial and technology industry experts.

Join ipushpull at Symphony Innovate where CTO David Jones, plus the EMEA and APAC team will be demonstrating the most recent platform developments.

We will present the latest use cases and innovative workflow integrations, which the team built on Symphony combined with award-winning ipushpull technology. Learn how pre-trade price negotiation, post-trade matching and similar capital markets workflows can be easily automated and digitised within the Symphony platform.

Innovate Asia 2019 – The Event Itself

Symphony Innovate Asia 2019 is a one-day conference where executives, developers, and industry experts from the APAC community will come together and discuss the roles of secure collaboration and workflow automation in the new digital workplace.

The event will see executive appearances from leading financial institutions such as SGX, MAS, Bank of Singapore and Goldman Sachs alongside representatives from the FinTech firms that are spearheading innovation in the sector.

If you are visiting on the day, pop in to the ipushpull stand where the team will be showcasing ipushpull’s updated Symphony app. With capabilities such as in-chat trade status reporting, charting analytics, PDF outputs plus in-chat live data sharing and collaboration, there will surely be something to catch your attention.

 

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ipushpull to be part of the Lord Mayor’s FinTech delegation to China

FinTech delegation to China

A select number of UK based FinTechs have been selected for a UK FinTech trade delegation in March 2019, travelling to China with the City of London Lord Mayor. As part of the FinTech delegation, ipushpull will represent the cutting edge of the London start-up scene while presenting and speaking at forums in Shenzhen and Shanghai to technology firms, banks, funds, VC’s and Chinese government officials. This trip is part of a larger effort that is aimed at creating a “FinTech Bridge” between the UK and China, with the objective of developing dialogue and boosting market access for companies in both countries.

The UK currently is one of the world’s leading FinTech innovation hubs that attracts the most investment in Europe. As China looks to overtake the US technology sector, already accounting for 47% of all global VC funding in 2018, the UK becomes another desirable technology partner to expand its global reach and opening new avenues for collaboration.

The City of London Lord Mayor’s FinTech delegation trip will span Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing – three megacities which have taken the lead in technology and innovation within China:

Shenzhen, known as the ‘new Silicon Valley’, borders Hong Kong and is home to 12 million people and one of the largest technology companies in the world, Tencent, worth $420bn, creator of WeChat – China’s ‘super app‘ – and bigger in the investment scene than Google and Facebook. Other major global tech players based in the Pearl River Delta City include Huawei, telecoms and mobile phone manufacturer, which in 2018 sold nearly as many phones as Apple, hardware maker Xiaomi which established itself in low cost mobile phones and is now a global leader in IOT home devices and perception AI and DJI, the worlds largest drone maker, estimated to own 50% of the North American drone market.

Shanghai, is China’s largest city with 26 million inhabitants housing the Lujiazui Financial City, or ‘Wall Street of China’ – the largest financial zone in China. The city’s financial power is only set to grow after President Xi Jinping announced in November 2018 that Shanghai will open a new technology stock exchange to rival the NASDAQ. This forms part of China’s plan to improve capital markets and to stem the flow of Chinese companies listing in the US.

Beijing, the 3000 year old city, is the capital of China, home to the four largest banks in the world by total assets (ICBC, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank and Bank of China) and at the global forefront of AI, aiming to be the world leader in AI by 2025. Beijing is building a $2 billion AI research park near tech companies and elite Chinese universities to help achieve this goal. The city also has a thriving start-up scene spearheaded by Bytedance, the world’s most valuable private technology company, valued at $75 billion at the last funding round.

Fintech delegation to CHina

 

UK technology start-ups, HSBC, KPMG and VC firm Anthemis will be travelling with the delegation and participating in events and meetings with China’s finance and technology thought leaders. As part of the Shenzhen Municipal Financial Services Bureau and City of London Fintech Forum, ipushpull will be presenting to a wide range of leading Chinese firms such as Tencent, China Merchants Bank, CITIC Securities, Ping An and the PBOC. ipushpull CEO Matthew Cheung will also be participating in a panel discussion in Shanghai in front of representatives from the major Chinese exchanges, clearing houses and securities firms speaking alongside Citibank and Ant Financial on the future of FinTech innovation.

In 2018 China raised an aggregate of $111.63 billion overtaking the US and Silicon Valley in venture capital. As China divests away from the US, plagued by trade wars and Committee on Foreign Investment reviews, China seeks a stronger dialog with the UK’s leading Fintech firms, helping ambitious companies that want to set up operations in China and providing opportunities for large Chinese Fintechs and investors to enter the UK market. A large investment from China has already been seen from Chinese FinTech payment firm Ant Financial (spun out of Alibaba’s Ali Pay) – now worth $150 billion – which recently bought UK payments firm World First for $700 million.

We will be publishing more on our blog and social media as the trip progresses. Follow us on Twitter and Linkedin to keep up with the Fintech delegation in China.

 

 

 

 

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ipushpull named in top ‘100 FinTech influencers’ 2019 for second year running

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London, UK – 6th February 2019: For a second year in a row ipushpull has been named as one of the “100 Most Influential FinTech Companies”by a judging panel of experts from the financial community, published in the Financial Technologist Magazine by Harrington Starr. This year the panel has included influential thought leaders from a range of diverse backgrounds in finance and technology, including David Williams, Partner, Financial Services Technology Advisory at EY; Lee Tindell, CTO Business Technology at Man Group; George Morris, Partner Information, Communications and Technology at Simmons & Simmons. Brought together with the aim of identifying how technology can tackle problems faced by the financial industry, the FinTech influencers list celebrates those companies which provide industry solutions that matter and the ones to watch.

ipushpull is delighted to have been given this distinction and named in the top 100 influential FinTech companies once more. During the past year ipushpull have been working hard to identify even further, the use cases and challenges that are facing capital markets. The FinTech has been working with a variety of buy-side and sell-side firms as well as IDBs and financial software vendors to provide award winning workflow automation solutions eliminating manual, complex process often involving emails and file sharing.

Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, comments:

“We are delighted to be recognised as a FinTech influencer for the second year running highlighting the transformational work we are doing with tier 1 banks, brokers and funds in capital markets workflow automation and real-time interoperability”. 

Through a suite of real-time integrations connected by the cloud, ipushpull allows real-time collaboration, workflow automation and interoperability between any application. Frequently, the disparate systems within financial services and the lack of interoperability between applications exposes the need for better, faster data and more efficient workflow. The solutions developed by ipushpull solves these issues while removing expensive in-house development.

About ipushpull

ipushpull (https://www.ipushpull.com/) is a cloud based real-time data sharing and workflow automation platform. Used across sell-side and buy-side, and front to back office, ipushpull improves workflow efficiency by allowing cross application secure, audited, access-controlled live data sharing, collaboration, and workflow automation. The API first platform handles static, live, and streaming data with APIs, integrations, and connectors into many data platforms and services. The platform has won numerous including the inaugural Symphony Innovation Award and FIA Innovator 2018. The company is a member of the highly selective JP Morgan In-Residence Programme. For more information visit ipushpull.com.

Contacts

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Matthew Cheung
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+44(0)2038084805
info@ipushpull.com

 

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ipushpull CEO to Speak at Risk & Compliance Leaders Summit in Berlin

compliance leaders summit

Come along to the Risk & Compliance Leaders Summit on the 7–8th of November and see ipushpull CEO Matthew Cheung speak at the “Dragons’ Den”-style innovation session. The inaugural summit is designed for risk and compliance leaders from Europe’s top buy-side firms. As the only event of its type, it presents a great opportunity for Fintech vendors to network with buy-side firms, learn from the in-depth keynote and speaker sessions, and find out what practical solutions buy-side firms are looking for.

The event will cover practical insights on adopting smarter approaches to risk mitigation and overlapping risk compliance, aggregation of enterprise-wide data, advanced analytics, and technology to automate mundane processes.

If you are interested in cutting-edge technology solutions, head over to the Dragons’ Den session on day two (Nov 8th) at 2.50pm. The focus of the session will examine the latest and greatest innovations in risk and compliance technology and examine which solutions provide true added value and whether they should be considered for future investment plans for buy-side firms.

Pushpull Technology will be presenting the ipushpull platform and its a revolutionary way of enterprise data sharing and workflow automation. The platform, used across sell-side and buy-side, and front to back office, improves workflow efficiency by allowing cross-application, secure, audited, access-controlled live data sharing, collaboration, and workflow automation. The API-first platform handles static, live, and streaming data with APIs, integrations, and connectors into many data platforms and services.

ipushpull has been recognised by financial industry publications such as the The Wall Street Journal, Waters Technology and The Trade News, has also won 3 industry awards and has been named in the 100 most influential Fintech companies of 2018 by The Financial Technologist, and that’s just this year! Get in touch if you want to find out more at sales@ipushpull.com

 

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ipushpull joins IA’s VeloCity Program

VeloCity accelerator

The Investment Association (IA) is today holding an opening event for the first cohort of innovators to join its brand new VeloCity accelerator. Ipushpull is very excited to attend the event as a new member of the IA VeloCity program.

IA VeloCity’s aims are twofold: to introduce the asset management industry to talented fintechs who will drive innovation within the sector, and to help those fintechs develop industry-ready solutions with ‘market-viable’ technology tailored towards asset managers. There’s strong demand for solutions which increase business efficiency and enhance customer experiences. To meet this demand, the VeloCity and the accelerator will be targeting several cutting edge solutions including cloud-based infrastructure and big data, AI, machine learning and distributed ledger technology. The intention is to help bring these technologies and solutions and make them applicable across the business, from middle and back office operations to fund distribution and marketing.

For this purpose a 24-member Advisory Panel, comprised of senior industry leaders and digital technology specialists, has been selected to define and represent the industry, while mentoring and unlocking the potential of those companies within the accelerator. Companies which are part of the program will benefit from the expertise offered by the Advisory Panel plus access to the IA and the well of knowledge it has to offer.

Graham Kellen, who chairs the VeloCity Advisory Panel and is the Chief Digital Officer at Schroders comments:

“The timing is perfect as members are now embracing the rapid technological innovation and are keen to accelerate the adoption of enhanced tools and cutting edge technologies for the creation of new products and services, moving the industry forward at the pace that reflects market dynamics and our customers’ needs.”

John Glenn, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister has said:

“The UK is a world leader in asset management, but to stay that way we’ve got to keep ahead of the curve.”

This platform is the first of its kind and it is set to enable fintechs to get a head start in the asset management sector.

To speak to ipushpull about the innovative solution we are developing for the asset management industry, get in touch with sales@ipushpull.com.