GoldenSource Partners with Xenomorph to Centralise Market and Reference Data
GoldenSource has partnered with analytics and data management specialist Xenomorph to offer the GoldenSource Market Data Solution (GSMDS), a single platform for market and reference data management that gives risk officers what GoldenSource describes as “a 360 degree view of all risk related data”. GoldenSource looked at a number of potential partners and considered the...
Ex-HSBC EDM Head Hinds Joins Credit Suisse as Programme Manager for Reference Data
Following her exit from HSBC at the start of this year, data management champion and regular FIMA speaker Sally Hinds has resurfaced as Credit Suisse’s new manager in charge of running the firm’s global reference data governance programme. At HSBC she spent more than four years as global head of EDM of the bank’s Global...
Investec Asset Management Planning to Rationalise London and Cape Town Data Hubs This Year, Says Schoonraad
Following its implementation of the Netik InterView data warehouse in separate iterations at its Cape Town and London operations, which began back in 2004 and was completed last year, Investec Asset Management is now planning to rationalise these two data warehouses so that it can operate from a single global data warehouse. Waldi Schoonraad, UK...
BCBS’ Corporate Governance Paper Highlights Need for a “Sufficiently Robust” IT Infrastructure for Risk Management
In keeping with the recent onslaught of regulatory papers aimed at fostering a more risk aware financial services industry, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published yet another consultative paper this week, this time focused on corporate governance. The paper includes 14 principles aimed at sparking investment by firms into their risk infrastructures...
Spain’s Third Largest Bank Banco Popular Installs Informatica Data Quality
Informatica Corporation announced that Banco Popular is implementing Informatica Data Quality to improve the quality of information handled by the company and contribute to the launch of more effective business campaigns. With a presence in Spain, Portugal and the United States, the Banco Popular Group is currently the third largest banking group in Spain, with...
IOSCO Elaborates on Data Template for Hedge Funds Risk Monitoring Purposes
Last month, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee published the details of the new agreed template for the global collection of hedge fund data in order to better manage systemic risk. These new data requirements are aimed at bringing a new level of transparency to the traditionally opaque sector but will, in...
GoldenSource Releases Market Data Solution for End-to-end Data Transparency
The ability of risk managers to adapt to changing regulatory environments and achieve more up to date and accessible views of immediate risk positions, has long been held back by the siloed treatment of market and reference data. Today at FIMA NY, GoldenSource announced the release of the GoldenSource Market Data Solution (GSMDS) allowing chief...
Half of Eagle’s Pipeline is Now from ASP Side of the Business, Says Newland
The focus of data management projects may change along with the questions around achieving business buy in, but the answers about the benefits and practical considerations remain the same, says Danielle Newland, product manager of data management solutions at Eagle Investment Systems. What has changed, however, is the level of interest around outsourcing and application...
Industry is Experiencing Second Wave of Outsourcing, Says Netik’s Close
The regulatory scrutiny of data quality is driving firms to join in with the second wave of outsourcing that is sweeping the market, according to Colin Close, CEO of hosted data management solution vendor Netik. Close reckons that firms should not wait for standards to be set, either by the regulator or bodies such as...
Strong Governance and Audit Trail is Key in the Data Management Endeavour, Says UBS’ Lux
The challenge of getting a whole firm “into the same boat” and understanding the true benefits of a data management project requires strong leadership and governance from the outset, said Hans Lux, enterprise data architect at UBS Global Asset Management, to the delegation in attendance at TSAM 2010 earlier this week. The importance of data...