A-Team Insight Author: A-Team
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: It’s Data Management, Jim, but Not as We Know It
Markit’s decision to use Livingstone’s software asset management (SAM) services, announced last week, is the company’s first visible deal in our space since Dan Simpson, former head of CADIS Software, left his company’s acquirer to become Livingstone’s CEO some 10 months ago. Because it’s Markit, we at Data Management Review find the deal interesting. But...
Calypso Adds Portfolio and Risk Management Functionality to Trading Platform
Calypso Technology has extended its trading and collateral optimisation platform with the integration of real-time portfolio and risk management functionality. The integration aims to support growing numbers of investment managers trading both derivatives and cash securities. The complete solution, Portfolio Workstation, builds on existing Calypso capabilities in areas such as pricing and position keeping to...
Cattolica Assicurazioni Implements GoldenSource Solution to Support Solvency II Compliance
Italian asset manager Cattolica Assicurazioni is implementing GoldenSource’s Market Data Solution as part of a Solvency II project that aims to meet the regulation’s January 1st 2016 compliance deadline. The asset manager selected the GoldenSource solution ahead of other contenders for the project on the basis of is completeness, ease of use by non-technical staff,...
Thomson Reuters Details Build Out of Org ID Managed Service for KYC
Thomson Reuters is building out its Org ID Know Your Customer (KYC) managed service – winner of this year’s A-Team Award for Best KYC & Client On-Boarding Solution – with the addition of nearly 2,000 entity records a month, plans for geographic expansion, and expectations of signing an additional six deals for the service in...
A-Team Webinar Considers Collaborative Solutions for Client Onboarding
Collaborative industry solutions for client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes promise banks significant benefits in terms of reduced cost and increased efficiency, but the practical implementation of these types of solutions is equally challenging in an environment where banks are at different stages of process automation and manage both similar and different customer...
Alacra Plans Q1 2016 Release of Full-Scale Resolve Service
Alacra is piloting a full-scale version of its Resolve matching and cross-referencing service for publicly available entity identifiers, following the introduction of an entry level version of the service back in August. While the entry level version of Resolve allows searches of close to 5 million legal entities in the Alacra Legal Entity Directory on...
MiFID II: Rewriting the Code
Demanding regulation is transforming order and execution management systems into detail-driven trading engines The capacity of order management systems (OMSs) to support buy-side desks was challenged at the Barcelona-based Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2015 on 14 October by John Greenan, a front office systems specialist, who suggested that some providers “had not kept pace” with...
Avox Sets Out Development Plans for 2016
Avox has set out its development plans for 2016, including the introduction of a sanctions screening service, support for MiFID II compliance and enhancements to its managed and Know Your Customer (KYC) services. The company, a specialist in entity data services, will also work with its parent DTCC and other subsidiaries, such as Clarient and...
New York City Data Management Summit Discusses Data as a Business Asset and Introduces A-Team’s BCBS 239 Handbook
Data governance, risk data aggregation, regulatory challenge, utility models, data architecture, Know Your Customer (KYC), data as an asset and machine learning were just some of the data management topics discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City. The conference also hosted the introduction of A-Team’s BCBS 239 handbook, which...
SmartStream Supports Open Source Identifiers in Reference Data Utility
SmartStream Technologies is planning to help users of its Reference Data Utility – or SPReD Securities Product Reference Data platform – adopt open source identifiers following an agreement with Thomson Reuters under which the latter will provide reference data including open source PermID identifiers to the utility. The company is also in conversation with Bloomberg...