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Temenos Rebrands ProDB as DataSource, Launches Packaged Data Management Solutions
Temenos has rebranded its ProDB enterprise data management solution as Temenos DataSource and set out a strategy to deliver pre-packaged data management solutions aimed at easing banks’ pain points. The solutions will combine the Temenos metadata model and rules engine with a financial instruments data model (FIDM) developed by Geneva-based Ecofin. The first packaged solution...
Xenomorph Lifts TimeScape into the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
Xenomorph has deployed its TimeScape analytics and data management solution in Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud, offering existing and potential users of the software an alternative to on-site installation. Some existing TimeScape users are expected to migrate to the cloud, while new customers can take immediate advantage of the short implementation time and reduced costs of...
In-Memory Heats Up for Low Latency and Big Data
Last week I was in Orlando for SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW event, where the main focus was not on the company’s highly successful business and data warehouse applications – revenues in 2012 were around $20 billion – but on a product introduced in late 2010 and said to be its fastest selling ever. Mysteriously named HANA...
Contextualising Your Data
By Simon Smith, Granger Smith Consultingwww.grangersmithconsulting.com The ever growing amount of digital data available poses a real challenge to current search solutions, because they could potentially lack relevance, timeliness and adaptability. BI systems have traditionally focused upon structured data, for example; costs, margins and sales, and it is now becoming essential for a reporting tool...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations… But Were Afraid to Ask (Part 1)
Valuations are a hot topic in today’s increasingly regulated capital markets. Transparency is a prime concern, as are multi-sourcing of pricing data, timely delivery and the process for handling price challenges. And yet, getting to grips with the intricacies of the issues at hand remains elusive. Until now, that is. In the first of three...
Misys Builds Out Sophis Value with Version 5 and Ongoing Roadmap
Misys has released version five of its Sophis Value portfolio and risk management solution, increasing risk analytics and asset coverage, as well as providing a new user interface and compliance with Dodd-Frank and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) requirements covering derivatives. Sophis Value v5 has been in development for two years and is in beta...
Stanley Young Departs Bloomberg
Stanley Young has left Bloomberg, where he was CEO of the company’s Enterprise Products and Solutions division. He was with Bloomberg almost a year, having joined in June 2012. A Bloomberg spokesperson offered this statement: “Stanley Young joined Bloomberg to help broaden our enterprise offerings and strategy. As part of that initiative, he helped us...
Eagle Enhances Software to Support Legal Entity Identifiers and Cleared Swaps
BNY Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment Systems has stepped up to the regulatory plate with a release of its portfolio management platform to support accommodate entity identifiers (LEIs) and enhancements to its investment accounting solution to support the processing of swaps that are cleared in line with Dodd-Frank legislation. The company started to consider client needs...
Thomson Reuters Adds Data Management Solution for Fatca Compliance
Thomson Reuters is making a second foray into the market for Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) compliance solutions with a data management product designed to help financial institutions identify and tag securities that are subject to Fatca regulation and those that are exempt or, in Fatca terms, grandfathered obligations. The company made its first...
Paladyne Systems Extends Implementation at First Customer GoldenTree Asset Management
GoldenTree Asset Management, the first customer to implement Paladyne Systems’ Analytics Master data aggregation, reporting and reconciliation software back in 2006 is nearing the end of an 18-month project to build a central data warehouse for its applications using version 8.0 of the software. According to Steven Lamm, head of application support and data management...