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Quantifi Stresses Data Management Requirement for Basel III Credit Risk
Quantifi has built out its counterparty credit risk platform to meet the capital requirements of Basel III. But the company warns that data aggregation and management coupled to a centralised approach to the regulation are essential to full compliance and managing the cost of capital. Basel III regulation was finalised in June 2011 and will...
Fenergo Tackles the Compliance Issues of Client Onboarding
Fenergo, a provider of customer lifecycle management software, lambasts the state of financial institutions’ client onboarding in a recently published white paper, but also proposes solutions to the inherent onboarding problems of data management and evolving regulation. The white paper – entitled ‘Client Onboarding: Solving the Challenges, Maximising the Opportunities’, researched with New York-based banking...
S&P Capital IQ Details First Data Service Using Real-Time Technology Acquired with QuantHouse
S&P Capital IQ has gone live with its first data solution based on real-time technology for exchange and market data distribution acquired with QuantHouse in April 2012. The company’s consolidated financial data feed has been up and running since early March and offers normalised, real-time global content from 110 exchanges that can be accessed using...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Doing the DMS Rounds
Such was the success of our Data Management Summit last month that I have had my arm severely twisted and – under duress – have agreed to host another event in the autumn. We’ll be holding DMS – same time, same place – on October 3, so if you missed us last time around you’ll...
Otkritie Teams with SunGard to Deliver DMA Service Including Algo Trading
Russian institutional broker Otkritie Capital is working with SunGard to deliver a direct market access (DMA) service that supports automatic real-time currency conversion from the Russian Ruble to the US Dollar, as well as client access to Russian trading venues using Otkritie’s suite of algorithmic trading strategies. The companies completed work on the service in...
Continuum Analytics Provides Python Insight into Thomson Reuters Databases
Continuum Analytics is providing access to Thomson Reuters’ QADirect data offering via Wakari, its browser-based Python data analytics platform. Python is an open source computer language that was first released in 1991, and which has grown in popularity in part because of its emphasis on code readability and compactness. A number of financial markets participants...
XSP Unveils Solution for DTCC’s ISO 20022 Based Corporate Actions Messages
XSP, the corporate actions processing specialist acquired by SunGard earlier this year, has detailed the utility it is building to support users of corporate actions messages from DTCC as the latter migrates from a proprietary file system to the ISO 20022 messaging standard. Development of the utility started last year when a DTCC participant that...
Aktia Retail Bank Selects SunGard Ambit Solution for Capital Management
Finnish retail bank Aktia is extending its use of SunGard’s Ambit risk and performance management solutions with the addition of Ambit Capital Management. The capital management application will replace a legacy vendor system, automate previously manual processes and deliver greater transparency and visibility of capital across the bank’s predominantly retail lending business. Aktia already uses...
WM Datenservice Leads Effort in Europe to Issue pre-LEI Entity Identifiers
WM Datenservice, acting as a pre-Local Operating Unit (LOU) in the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, has registered 10 German companies with pre-LEI codes called German Entity Identifiers (GEIs) since it started issuing codes early this month. WM suggests it could issue GEIs to companies outside Germany if more pre-LOUs are not up and...
Corvil Collaborates with Cisco; TS-Associates Upgrades Correlix, Outlines Strategy
The two leading latency management specialists – Corvil and TS-Associates – released news this week of collaborations, upgrades and strategy. Corvil announced a collaboration with Cisco Systems (which is also an investor in Corvil), to integrate its CorvilNet latency monitoring technology with Cisco’s Nexus 3548 switch, so that the latter can provide time stamping functionality...