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Machine-Executable Regulations Promise Improved Data Quality and Efficiency in Reporting

Ensuring data quality for regulatory reporting is an ongoing headache for many financial institutions, but solutions that could ease the pain are emerging. We talk to Sassan Danesh, a member of the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) management team, about approaches to regulatory data quality issues using machine-executable validation rules ahead of his keynote at next...

Data Governance Interview with Kim Woodward – Data Management Summit’s Out of Industry Keynote Speaker

Kim Woodward, senior director, head of information operations at AstraZeneca, is a collaborative data governance leader specialising in the strategic design, delivery and implementation of global data management and governance practices in the finance and pharma sectors. She has been involved in the design of enterprise data policies, maturity models and data governance operating frameworks...

MCO Closes Acquisition of Schwab Compliance Technologies for Conduct Risk

Dublin-based conduct risk and compliance technology specialist MCO (MyComplianceOffice) has completed its acquisition of Schwab Compliance Technologies (SCT). The purchase – for an undisclosed sum – adds the ability to monitor employees’ trading activities to MCO’s product line and brings its client base to more than 1,300 firms globally. SCT – which started life as Compliance11 Inc....

Market Data in the Virtual Reality World

By Yousaf Hafeez, Head of Business Development for Financial Solutions at BT If you think that market data volumes are high today, you’ve seen nothing yet! With virtual reality (VR) tools for trading edging closer to becoming practically usable on trading floors, any larger scale uptake of such applications will mean an exponential rise in data...

DataBP Partner and Deutsche Boerse to Digitise Market Data Licensing

Data licensing and subscription management platform DataBP has partnered with Deutsche Boerse Group (DBAG) to introduce a digital data licensing and management platform that aims to streamline business operations and optimise the customer experience for the exchange group’s Market Data + Services (MD+S) business. DBAG provides its global client base with market data and services...

Vendor Strategy: Acuity Knowledge Partners Braces for Growth of ESG Business

Acuity Knowledge Partners has enabled its financial services clients to achieve more than US$3 billion in savings by providing research and analytics services that has streamlined their enterprise workflows and processes. The UK-headquartered company is now rapidly expanding its operations to do the same for those clients’ ESG reporting and management obligations. The data and...

Data Quality Remains ESG Hurdle, says Buy-Side Report

ESG data quality remains the biggest hindrance to buy-side financial institutions’ sustainability programmes, according to a new survey, which found low satisfaction rates among a range of data types. Just a quarter of 30 senior executives questioned on their ESG practices by sustainability research firm Verdantix said they thought the quality of ESG data offered...

A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit is Back in Town – Don’t Miss It!

A-Team Group will be live in London on Wednesday 11 May hosting its renowned Data Management Summit – and you are invited. This year’s London event will push the boundaries, with leading data practitioners, innovators and vendors covering everything from data-driven business strategy to data monetisation, perpetual KYC, data fabric, ESG data, value-added data governance,...

DTCC Names BNY Mellon Executive Frank La Salla as President and CEO

DTCC has named Francis (Frank) La Salla as president and CEO of the company with effect from 12 August 2022. He will join DTCC from BNY Mellon, where he is CEO of the bank’s issuer services business and a member of the executive committee. La Salla’s appointment is the result of long-term succession planning and...

Implementation Analysis: The Catalyst for Rapid Analytics Success in Capital Markets

By Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Mosaic Smart Data. Harnessing the data explosion has become one of the biggest challenges facing capital markets participants today. With such massive amounts of data – all sourced by different methods and stored in different locations across the institution – the challenge can sometimes feel insurmountable. The benefits that come...