Data Management Summit: Meeting Management Demand for Enterprise and Risk Analytics
Regulation is driving many data management projects in financial firms, but when tactical projects morph into strategic approaches to enterprise data the requirements of senior management for enterprise and risk analysis can begin to be fulfilled. Leading a panel discussion entitled Reporting for the C-Suite: Data Management for Enterprise and Risk Analytics at A-Team Group’s...
Data Management Summit: IBM and GoldenSource Unveil Reference Data Utility Solution
IBM used its participation in A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit last week to unveil details of its partnership with GoldenSource to deliver a reference data utility. The partners are running the GoldenSource enterprise data management (EDM) platform in the IBM cloud to provide the utility and are talking to prospective clients that are considering the...
Data Management Summit: UBS’s Brown on Creating a Data Map of the Financial Enterprise
Rupert Brown, lead architect in the office of the CTO at UBS Investment Bank, opened the A-Team Group Data Management Summit with a keynote presentation covering the creation of a data map for a financial enterprise. Taking a traditional map as his starting point and later touching on the topographical nature of the London Underground...
Euroclear Bank and SmartStream Build Out Central Data Utility
When Euroclear Bank and SmartStream joined forces in November 2012 to deliver a centralised reference data utility, many financial services firms were beginning to realise the need to improve data management and deliver higher quality data at a lower cost. Fast forward two years and the pressure to review and renew failing data management models...
Managed Reference Data Services – Are Utility Models the Way Forward?
The combination of cost, complexity and compliance are driving managers of reference data to examine new delivery models that avoid the duplication, manual intervention and expense of current business methods. But is a utility or managed service provider the best way forward? From recent industry conversations, not only do many believe it is, but are...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Eikon – A Window to Enterprise Data
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? While the initial vision may have been of a modern premium trader desktop, the latest incarnation is more of a...
Bloomberg Integrates OneTick with EMSX to Augment Analytics
Bloomberg has augmented the analytics available to users of its EMSX execution management system with the integration of OneTick’s complex event processing (CEP) engine and database. The aim is to offer more actionable analytics and provide EMSX users with access to real-time venue analytics, intra-day market impact analytics and advanced liquidity signal indications. Bloomberg looked...
SAS Combines Software Modules to Deliver Capital Management Solution
SAS has packaged two of its existing software modules to deliver SAS Capital Planning and Management, a solution designed to help banks meet regulatory and internal capital management requirements quickly and efficiently. The package combines SAS Financial Management with specific capabilities added for capital planning, such as calculation rules and capital allocation, with SAS Operations...
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Solutions to Solve the Data Management Conundrum
As in-house reference data management models near breaking point, talk is turning to hosted solutions, managed services and data utilities. These solutions could provide some of the cost reductions that firms must find, but they do not come without their own problems of data quality, responsibility for data, timely collection and distribution of data and,...
Thomson Reuters Embeds Tagging Technology to Improve Transparency of Benchmark Submissions
Thomson Reuters has embedded tagging technology into its Enterprise Platform software with the aim of helping banks improve transparency and reporting around benchmark submissions and other contributed data. The development is a timely response to the issue flagged by the recent penalties imposed on banks for rigging of the key Libor benchmark. The Thomson Reuters...