Calimere Point Delivers Regulatory-Grade Assurance for One of Europe’s Largest Financial Data Migrations
Plia Systems Joins The Investment Association’s IA Engine, Bringing Market-Leading Know Your Broker Technology to the UK Asset-Management FinTech Ecosystem.
London, 26 June 2025 — Plia Systems, the provider of the industry-leading Know Your Broker (KYB) due-diligence platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Investment Association’s IA Engine — the UK’s specialist FinTech hub and accelerator dedicated to catalysing technology adoption across the investment-management sector.
The International Compliance Association (ICA), the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community, is proud to announce the launch of a powerful new feature within the ICA members’ hub: regulatory alerts with smart CPD recommendations.
Operational efficiency has become a critical competitive advantage for asset managers across Europe. As regulatory demands increase and client expectations rise, the ability to process orders with speed, accuracy, and transparency determines not just profitability, but survival in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 23, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Conquest Planning Inc., (“Conquest”), a technology platform modernizing financial planning with customized and convenient advice, announced it has raised $80 million USD ($110 million CAD) in Series B funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
For start-up or growth firms that require the flexibility to scale up or down their marketing hire’s involvement or seek to access senior-level marketing talent without the cost burdens of a permanent role, then fractional is the way to go.
The Investment Association’s (IA) FinTech hub and accelerator, IA Engine, has appointed Simon Swords, Managing Director of Fundipedia, as the new Chair of its Advisory Panel.
Droit, a technology firm at the forefront of computational law and regulation, now supports LSEG’s Global Shareholding Disclosure Data in its Position Reporting product.
Putting the ‘buy’ into ‘build versus buy’
When Optiver undertook a new quantitative trading project several years ago, we quickly ran into a problem: Where to source the data? Quant strategies rely heavily on historical prices to detect patterns and identify and execute trades, making solid market data a must. But in Europe, where liquidity is fragmented across more than two dozen countries and exchanges, this data can be particularly challenging to collect.
This is the story of how Optiver became, first, customers of BMLL’s Level 3 historical data and, later on, investors. It’s also the story of how companies like BMLL, with the help of Optiver, are finally putting the ‘buy’ into the age-old ‘build versus buy’ question when it comes to historical market data.
Change is afoot in wealth managers globally. While each face their own client, business and regulatory challenges, there is a common thread across the globe: wealth managers are becoming more ‘institutional’ in their approach to advising and managing client assets. We see five key areas where this trend is taking hold.
As the 2027 SAP support deadline approaches, the UK investment and fintech sector faces unique challenges in preserving decades of mission-critical custom code.
Perfect data in financial services remains an elusive goal. Many institutions pursue it relentlessly, yet complete data perfection perpetually remains just beyond reach.
