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Datactics Extends FlowDesigner to Deliver DQ Metrics for Regulatory Data Compliance
Datactics has extended its FlowDesigner data quality platform to offer DQ Metrics, a monitoring and measurement application that allows financial institutions to measure their data compliance against regulations and industry standards on a continuous basis. The company’s initial release of DQ Metrics covers entity identifiers, particularly LEIs required by MiFID II and EMIR, and GIIN...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: The European Question
The marketplace is whirring with great minds turning their attention to what the latest ESMA rules for MiFID II actually mean. We’re not sure anyone has completely figured that out yet, but we’ll be watching closely as we’re embroiled in a number of projects that are impacted to various degrees by the latest ESMA utterances,...
Opus Global Acquires Alacra in Drive to Develop World Leading Compliance Platform
Opus Global, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based compliance solutions has acquired Alacra, a provider of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and reference data services for regulatory compliance that was set up by co-founders Steve Goldstein and Michael Angle in 1996. Terms of the transaction, which closed today, were not disclosed. The acquisition...
Old Mutual Global Investors Implements Curium Data Management Solution
Old Mutual Global Investors, the asset management division of Old Mutual Wealth and part of the Old Mutual Group, has implemented Curium Data Systems’ data management solution for the creation of security master data and data quality management across its investment operations. The Curium solution also provides a control platform for the data governance of...
Cost and Compliance Drive Increasing Adoption of Centralised Customer Data Solutions
Banks have bought into the principle of centralising data to support Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance and deliver a better customer experience, and are now turning principle into practice. The approaches they are taking to centralise data, the solutions they are implementing and the benefits they expect to accrue will be discussed at this week’s...
ESMA has Published Its Technical Standards for MiFIR!
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team At last the document has arrived – you can find it on the ESMA web site at http://tinyurl.com/nh5spx7. And there are changes in there that are very significant to anyone involved in reference data, in compliance,...
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: See You This Thursday
Yes, it’s this week. The A-Team Data Management Summit is coming to town (if you happen to be in London) this coming Thursday, October 1. I’m particularly excited by this event as we’ve managed to attract our strongest group of speakers and panellists to date. And, as you might expect, this lineup of senior bank...
A-Team Data Management Summit: Achieving a Seamless Customer View Across the Enterprise
Managing data to achieve a single view of customers is the aim of many banks. The task can be difficult, especially in banks with numerous silos of customer data, but it can be rewarding and deliver benefits including increased customer profitability and decreased costs of customer service. Approaches to achieving a single view of customers...
Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference...
Thomson Reuters Details PermID as Part of Open Platform Strategy
Thomson Reuters has set out the details of its Permanent Identifier (PermID), a machine readable identifier covering a wide variety of data items including financial institutions, instruments, events and people, and part of the company’s open platform strategy. PermID is the internal standard devised after the merger of Thomson and Reuters to master the company’s...