New York Data Management Summit Considers the Challenges of Transformation
Transformational change in data management is on the agenda at many financial institutions, but how best can it be achieved and what types of solutions are available to support it? These questions and more will be addressed by experts during a panel session at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in New York. Independent consultant...
A-Team Data Management Summit Discusses Hot Topics and Technologies
Data governance, operations automation, data quality, regulation, blockchain technology, Know your Customer (KYC) and client onboarding were among the hot topics discussed at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. The first keynote of the day, Data Governance – Winning Hearts and Minds, was presented by Kevin Ayling, head of data quality governance...
Strategic Responses to Unrelenting Regulation
Financial institutions continue to take a tactical rather than strategic approach to data management for multiple regulations, but change is on the way and will be discussed during a panel session on the challenges and opportunities of incoming regulation at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. Panel member Peter Warms, manager of...
Developing Best Practice for Optimal KYC and Client Onboarding Performance
Know Your Customer (KYC) and client onboarding programmes are well established in the banking sector, driven by regulatory requirements and beginning to deliver tangible benefits – but there is still much to be done to achieve best practice for optimal performance. The data management challenges presented by KYC and onboarding, as well as the opportunities...
Data Management Experts Discuss the Dilemmas of Data Quality
Data quality has become an imperative for financial institutions as they face increasing regulation and look to data for business benefits and opportunities – but it is not always easy to achieve and requires significant investment in time and resources. For many institutions, a definition of data quality is based on some or all of...
Bloomberg PolarLake Adds Corporate Actions and Index Data to Data Management Utility
Bloomberg PolarLake has added corporate actions and index data services to its data management utility, which already manages reference, ratings, pricing, position, trade and legal entity data on behalf of both buy-side and sell-side customers. The corporate actions data service is based on data feeds from the company’s data vendor partners, data sourced from custodians...
Kingland Systems Delivers Risk and Compliance Solutions Based on Data Science
Kingland Systems is building out its portfolio of data management solutions with a data diagnostics service designed to help users improve entity data quality, the implementation of cognitive technology to ease the burden of data management, and plans for a platform that will support the lifecycle of data. Kingland was founded in 1992 with a...
Fidelity ActionsXchange Rebrands to Reflect Range of Corporate Actions Solutions
Fidelity ActionsXchange has rebranded to Fidelity Corporate Actions Solutions with a view to emphasising its provision of not only corporate actions data, but also analyst services and workflow solutions that ensure data accuracy and automate the lifecycle of corporate actions. The update comes as financial institutions extend their use of corporate actions data beyond back-office...
Exchange Data International Adds Reference Data Products to Airex Online Market
Exchange Data International (EDI) has listed its securities reference data and corporate actions data on the Airex Market, joining about 50 vendors of financial services apps, information and reports already offering products and services on the online market. Airex went live with a beta version of its digital information market in February 2015, with the...
Exchange Data International Adds ISO 15022 Compliant Corporate Actions Feed
Exchange Data International (EDI) has introduced a fixed income corporate actions service based on the ISO 15022 messaging standard. The service is a response to customer interest in moving away from corporate actions services based on proprietary formats and towards services that are compliant with the ISO 15022 standard. The fixed income ISO 15022 feed...