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Andrew’s Blog – The Problem with Standards?
Every few years I feel the compulsion to write a rant – known these days as a blog – about the problem with standards, and in particular standards relating to financial information. Usually, this is sparked by some new initiative to get competing vendors to live together peacefully so the marketplace can reap the benefits...
Virginie’s Blog – Keeping an Eye on Google
I noted the announcement of Google’s participation in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s new data standards subcommittee this month with interest. Given its potential in the financial services market in the area of data management (in the cloud) and the experience it brings to the table, it’s a surprise that steps hadn’t been taken sooner...
Broadridge Enhances Investigo Solution with Customized Data Scrubbing Capabilities
Broadridge Financial Solutions, announced today the development of a flexible two-tier Data Scrubbing Service as an enhancement to its Investigo insurance and investment data aggregation solutions. This enhancement adds a flexible, rules-based, data scrubbing engine to the already robust aggregation capabilities of the Investigo solution. The new Investigo data scrubbing engine identifies unreconciled positions and...
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Extends Relationship with SunGard’s FastVal
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), one of Europe’s leading banks, has extended its relationship with SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. SEB’s prime services offering will now broaden its instrument type coverage through its use of FastVal, when offering its clients an outsourced service for the valuation and risk...
UBS Hires John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution
UBS today announced the appointment of John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution, based in New York. Dyment will be responsible for the management and development of UBS’s strategically important hedge fund franchise, with global functional responsibility for sales, capital introduction and business consultancy services to the hedge fund community within Global Prime...
Allan Boardman, of London, Appointed Director of ISACA
Allan Boardman, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CA (SA), CISSP, information risk manager at JP Morgan (UK), was appointed director of ISACA—a global association serving 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its World Congress: INSIGHTS 2011 conference in Washington DC, USA, today. Founded in 1969, ISACA develops international standards for information systems...
BNP Paribas Improves Customer Service with Open Source Data Integration
BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, a leading provider of real estate services, has today announced that it has selected the Talend Integration Suite (TIS) to effectively manage its client data. The move is a significant part of the company’s development strategy and aims to improve customer service, by enabling the migration of confidential client data...
State Street to Provide Multi-Domicile Investment Manager Operations Outsourcing for the F&C Group
State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, announced today that it has been appointed by F&C Asset Management (F&C) to provide investment manager operations outsourcing for some £106 billion in assets. State Street will provide F&C, and its subsidiary Thames River Capital with services for their global...
J.P. Morgan Completes Industry’s First Two ‘Second Generation’ Outsourcing Transactions for Asset Managers
J.P. Morgan’s Worldwide Securities Services business (J.P. Morgan WSS) today announced it has successfully completed the industry’s first two migrations of assets from an existing middle and back office services provider to its own strategic platform, on behalf of fund managers Artemis Investment Management (Artemis) and J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The range of services WSS...
Thomson Reuters Launches Cost Effective Workflow Solution for Hedge Funds
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of a fully integrated workflow solution bringing together the best in class capabilities including Thomson Reuters Eikon and Elektron to provide the content, portfolio tools and connectivity hedge fund managers need to systematize their operations and drive returns. In an increasingly competitive marketplace hedge funds have been under greater...