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Opinion: The Pricing & Reference Data Community – Helping You Tackle Regulatory Challenges
By Marion Leslie, Managing Director, Pricing & Reference Services, Thomson Reuters The current barrage of regulatory reforms sweeping the global financial services industry poses an enormous challenge for all sectors. These changes are impacting banks, broker/dealers, insurance companies, institutional asset managers, hedge funds and their asset servicers such as fund administrators, custodians and prime brokers...
First Derivatives and Pivotal Collaborate on Next-Generation Data Architecture
First Derivatives (FD) is providing consulting services around technology from Pivotal with a view to helping customers build next-generation data architectures and applications for risk management, regulatory compliance, market surveillance and trading. FD will work initially to help clients install and commission Pivotal software and build out intelligent data lakes using semantic tagging, but expects...
Moody’s Analytics Releases Enterprise Version of Solvency II Solution for Life Insurers
Moody’s Analytics has released an enterprise version of its B&H Proxy Generator, which is designed to help life insurers perform fast asset and liability calculations for Solvency II Internal Model and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment purposes. The enterprise version, V3.0, can be deployed centrally and accessed by multiple users, expanding on V2.0, which is...
Opinion: The Digital Data Navigator (Dat Nav?) Era – Part 2
Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft PLC. This section looks ahead to see if there are lessons from the age of digital cartography to provide insights into how data management and navigation might develop in the next few years. The Digital Divide Financial services organisations and their suppliers are still struggling to produce the data equivalent...
Software Vendors Welcome Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ Partner Programme
Software vendors and end users have welcomed the formalisation of Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ vendor partner programme that allows financial software vendors to make their apps ‘Bloomberg ready’ by connecting them to Bloomberg applications and providing access to Bloomberg data. Bloomberg introduced the programme with 125 financial software partners offering everything from order, execution and risk...
AIM Software Extends Market Reach with Business Applications for Data Management
AIM Software is challenging competitors in the enterprise data management (EDM) space with a business approach to data management that includes fixed price, packaged applications covering market data, reference data and corporate actions data. The Vienna, Austria based company says these solutions, plus a ‘Go West’ strategy focused on expansion in the US and UK,...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A New Kind of Single Source of the Truth
I’ve been struck in recent months by the changing attitudes within our marketplace to the concept of a golden copy, or single, accepted source of the truth as far as reference data is concerned. The industry seems to be moving away from established principles of on-site enterprise data management, most visibly – noisily, perhaps? –...
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Kaazing’s Living Web For Everything-as-a-Service
Founded in Silicon Valley back in 2007 as a better way to deliver interactive web apps, Kaazing is getting a new lease of life with the emergence of what it calls the Living Web – its marketing spin on what’s more often called the Internet of Things (IoT), where distributed applications of all kinds communicate...
Broadridge and Lombard Risk Forge Alliance on Collateral Management
Broadridge Financial Solutions and Lombard Risk Management will outline details of their global alliance to develop and deliver collateral management solutions late next month or early May, when the companies plan to announce products and rollout schedules. The alliance has been established to take Broadridge into the collateral management market by combining Lombard Risk’s Colline...
Deutsche Börse Extends AlphaFlash with Alerts of Upcoming Economic Events
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has added AlphaFlash Risk Signal to its AlphaFlash brand of automated news feeds. The service alerts users to upcoming economic releases, giving them the opportunity to adjust trading and risk management systems ahead of releases. The service has been developed in response to customer interest in accounting for economic...