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AIM Software Addresses Data Licensing Compliance Risk
AIM Software has released GAIN Data Portal, a solution designed to help financial institutions improve control and costs of market data while avoiding breaches of data vendor agreements. Breaches can occur when trading terminal data is exported to spreadsheets and used for tasks such as risk calculation and trade compliance, which are not included in...
Xenomorph Integrates TimeScape EDM+ with MarkLogic NoSQL Database
Xenomorph has extended the reach of TimeScape EDM+ by integrating the solution’s data management and analytics capabilities with the MarkLogic document-based NoSQL database. The integration allows use of the functionality of TimeScape EDM+, including ready-to-run data integration, cleansing, validation, audit, analysis and distribution, with the ACID – atomicity consistency isolation durability – compliant and scale...
Itarle Forges Algo Distribution Deal with Celer Technologies
By Zoe Schiff Itarle, a global provider of white labeled, multi-asset algo trading and smart order routing capabilities, has signed a distribution agreement with London-based Celer Technologies. The arrangement is part of Itarle’s strategy of partnering with leading order and execution management systems. Under the terms of the deal, Itarle will release new algorithms through...
The Art of Data Lineage
Implementing data lineage is a complex task including challenges such as managing multiple legacy systems, understanding data flows, responding to ongoing regulatory change, winning management buy-in and securing dedicated budget. Done well, however, it can provide significant benefits. The challenges and opportunities of data lineage were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar sponsored by...
FCA Issues Third Consultation Paper on MiFID II
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a third consultation paper on UK implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The deadline for comments on the paper is January 4, 2017, just a year before the regulation takes effect. The consultation paper – which you can access here – seeks views on proposed...
All Along the Watchtower: How MiFID II’s Impact on the Front Office Is Driving Banks to Mutualise
By Dan Barnes Bob Dylan’s lyric, ‘There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief,’ resonates in the world of capital markets. It encapsulates the relentless regulatory and systemic turbulence. Under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) coming into force in 2018, firms active in Europe will be hit with many new...
General Data Protection Regulation Calls for Increased Investment in Data Security and Governance
Paul Nemitz, the director for fundamental rights in the justice directorate of the European Commission, has warned companies operating in the EU that they must invest in data security to ensure they can demonstrate compliance with the data privacy by design and security elements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and thus reduce potential...
Spreadsheets: Empowering Users while Managing Operational Risk
By Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph I read a great piece in the FT by Lisa Pollack recently about the future of spreadsheets and their potential to bridge the gap between those of us who don’t program and those that do. The piece referred to the broad global community of more than 750 million Excel users...
Kingland White Paper and Webinar Discuss How to Improve Entity Data Quality
Reliable entity data is critical to business strategy, but it can be difficult to manage, raising questions about how financial institutions can improve the measurement of entity data quality and manage it in a way that best suits their organisation. Answering the questions are emerging cognitive technologies that can identify and automatically fix incorrect entity...
Top Tips for Overcoming the Challenges and Achieving the Benefits of Data Quality
Improving and sustaining data quality has become essential to meeting business and regulatory compliance requirements across capital markets, but challenges remain with firms facing problems raised by data silos, disparate data sources, large data volumes, lack of standardisation and a poor understanding of data quality across the organisation. Addressing these issues, a recent A-Team Group...