SNL Financial Takes Upper Hand in Merger with S&P Capital IQ
The outcome of McGraw Hill Financial’s acquisition of SNL Financial in September 2015 and its merger with S&P Capital IQ is beginning to take shape in the form of an enlarged data, research and analytics company with a cumbersome name – S&P Capital IQ + SNL Financial – and a leadership line-up that suggests S&P...
Fenergo Teams Up with Markit and kyc.com to Improve Client Lifecycle Management
Fenergo has formed a strategic relationship with Markit that will allow banks using its client lifecycle management software to automate consumption of Know Your Customer (KYC) and counterparty data from Markit and kyc.com, a joint venture between Markit and Genpact. The automation is based on Data Integration Manager, an adjunct to Fenergo’s client lifecycle management...
Regulation Review – AIFMD
As January 1st 2016 approaches and regulations such as BCBS 239 and Solvency II come into force, bringing with them considerable data management demands, other more seasoned regulations, among them the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) that took effect in 2013, continue to pose data management challenges. AIFMD was introduced by the European Union...
Collibra win Best Data Governance Solution at the recent Data Management Review Awards 2015
Take a look at the video of the Data Management Review Awards including an exclusive interview with Collibra following their successful win in the ‘Best Data Governance Solution’ category. Video of 149630705
SmartStream win Best Managed Services Solution at the recent Data Management Review Awards 2015
Take a look at the video of the Data Management Review Awards including an exclusive interview with SmartStream following their successful win in the ‘Best Managed Services Solution’ category. Video of 149632783
Eagle Sets out Plans for 2016 and its Part in BNY Mellon’s Nexen Platform Development
Eagle Investment Systems has set plans for 2016 that include working closely with its parent BNY Mellon to take advantage of the investment bank’s emerging Nexen technology platform. The platform is cloud based and open source, and designed to help BNY Mellon clients become more flexible, client responsive, efficient and fast, in many cases through...
Living with Delay – Postponing the Implementation of MiFID II will Simply Delay the Inevitable
By Tomas Kindler, Strategic Services, SIX Securities Services The decision in mid-December by the US Federal Reserve to begin the process of raising interest rates has been hailed in the press as the start of a change of mindset, situating the 2008 financial crisis and the reaction to it as a past event. However, both...
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Implements Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management Solution
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, a US regional bank operating across nine states, has implemented Fenergo’s client lifecycle management solution to provide a single view of clients, improve operational efficiency around client onboarding and meet client entity data requirements across a number of regulations. The bank, which operates predominantly in capital markets, selected Fenergo following a competitive...
SmartStream Signs Up Data Vendors for Reference Data Utility
SmartStream Technologies is building out its Reference Data Utility (RDU) – informally known as the SPReD Securities Product Reference Data platform – through the addition of data vendor agreements with Interactive Data, Exchange Data International, SIX Financial Information, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices and Euromoney Tradedata. These agreements add to a tie-up with...
The FIGI Moves Forward Via Inclusion in ISO 20022 Messaging Standard
The open source Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), is coming closer to being a primary security identifier following its inclusion in the ISO 20022 external code set for financial instrument identification and its formal approval as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG). The identifier is also starting...