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Opinion: Why the Client On-Boarding Conundrum Will Fuel Master Data Management (MDM) in Capital Markets
Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia for GoldenSource, explains how MDM can provide answers to the client on-boarding challenge facing financial institutions. Taking one step forward and two steps back – that’s what it must feel like for financial institutions at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution...
Kiltearn Partners Implements Indata IPM Epic to Centralise Data Management
Edinburgh based investment firm Kiltearn Partners has implemented Indata’s iPM Epic platform to centralise data, deliver data management efficiencies and support business intelligence. The firm was founded in 2011 and has been using Indata’s Intelligent Portfolio Management (iPM) technology since 2013 to support front-to-back office needs including order management, compliance, portfolio modelling, accounting, performance and...
Fenergo Details Development Plans Funded by $75 Million Private Equity Investment
Fenergo is close to securing a $75 million investment from private equity firm Insight Venture Partners. The transaction is expected to close in the next few weeks and will give Fenergo the financial strength to work with the world’s largest banks as well as funds to invest in its client lifecycle management solutions, develop a...
MoneyMate Rebrands Fund ProductMaster Platform as Accudelta and Extends Capabilities
MoneyMate Group has rebranded its Fund ProductMaster managed data service to Accudelta, creating a separate business line for the service that will sit alongside the group’s utility for secure data sharing, Silverfinch, and its market data vendor, Longboat Analytics. The rebrand coincides with improvements to the data distribution platform, including the addition of support for...
Orient Securities Implements Orc Trading Bricks for Options Market Making in China
Orient Securities has implemented Orc’s Trading Bricks platform to support its options market making operations on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The securities firm chose Orc’s turnkey market making solution in a competitive selection process and on the basis of Orc’s market reputation and its platform’s rich feature set. Orient, one of the largest securities firms...
Getting to Grips with Risk Data: The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
By Zoe Schiff If you thought BCBS 239 would be a challenge, you should take a look at the proposals currently being formulated as part of the Basel group’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). Happily, this will be part of what we’ll be talking about next Tuesday, when A-Team hosts a webinar on...
Opinion: Unique Data Types Needed for Capital Markets
By Robert Iati, Senior Director, Capital Markets, Dun & Bradstreet We’ve been hearing about the importance of Big Data for what seems like decades, but investment banks often approach data projects with insufficient attention to reference data. Typically, this is due to a prominent focus on ultra-fast market data and a limited amount of discretionary...
Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator Increases Transparency of Evaluated Pricing
Thomson Reuters has partnered with data analytics specialist Trovo to produce Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator, a software solution that automates reference data and pricing workflows, and allows users to search and analyse data from a wide range of data sources, compare multiple pricing options and optimise valuation and risk activities. The solution is data vendor...
Thomson Reuters Offers Three Open Source APIs and Plans More
Thomson Reuters has simplified access to its data feeds and services with a family of open source application programming interfaces (APIs) that are designed to help developers create innovative applications quickly and more easily than was previously possible. The Elektron API family is a response to customer interest in open source APIs that can be...
Opinion: Why the Client Onboarding Conundrum will Fuel Master Data Management in Capital Markets
By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia, GoldenSource Taking one step forward and two steps back is what financial institutions must feel they are doing at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution to manage all reference, counterparty, client and customer data in one place ticks all the...