Interactive Data Offers Ready-to-Test Fatca Data Service
Interactive Data has added its name to the list of market data vendors with reference data offerings designed to meet the compliance requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). It is also talking to third-party software providers about working together to provide complete solutions that could be easier for customers to implement...
HSBC Group CDO Details the Requirements of Data Management Strategy and Practice
The chief data officer (CDO) needs to be a change agent with the aim of making data part of the business-as-usual process. Speaking at last week’s FIMA conference, Peter Serenita, group chief data officer at HSBC, described the role of the CDO and how best to develop data management strategy and practice. On the role...
SAP and SAS Partnership Develops In-Memory Analytics for Big Data
SAP and SAS have signed a strategic agreement to develop data management and analytics solutions that allow SAS’s analytics applications to run on SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The aim is to deliver real-time data analysis, with early solutions due in the first half of next year. The partners plan to develop high-performance solutions across a...
A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View
Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only...
GoldenSource, SIX Provide FATCA Solution for Big UK Bank
GoldenSource has secured its first customer for the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) solution it has developed using its enterprise data management (EDM) platform and Connections service. The customer, a UK-based global universal bank, has also signed a contract with SIX Financial Information to provide data for the FATCA solution. The GoldenSource Connections...
Xenomorph Adds S&P Capital IQ Data Connector to TimeScape
Xenomorph has added S&P Capital IQ to the list of data vendors it works with to provide connectors between data solutions and its TimeScape analysis and data management platform. The connectors enable data integration and allow commingling of multiple data sets from different sources, in support of applications such as dual sourcing of price information....
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: IBOR – The Next Great Hype?
Kudos to Ronan Brennan, CTO at fund data management specialists MoneyMate, whose blog – IBOR – The Next Great Hype? – explores whether the concept of the investment book of record (IBOR) is anything more than mere hype. I’m pleased to report that he concludes there’s more to it than just bluster. Certainly, it’s something...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: NYSE Tech – Breaking Bad?
In what on paper looks like an executive clear-out ahead of the November 4 completion of InterContinentalExchange’s acquisition of NYSE Euronext, NYSE Technologies’ CEO Jon Robson and COO Terry Roche are leaving the company, according to sources close to the arrangement. The development follows the apparent breakdown of talks to spin off the NYSE Tech...
Opinion: Data Management – Still Not Available in High Definition
By Steve Young, CEO, Citisoft “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty. ” – Abraham Lincoln...
Asset Control Names Richard Petti as CEO
Asset Control has named Richard Petti, a former SunGard Data Systems executive, as CEO, just two months after the company was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners. Petti replaces interim CEO Dean Goodermote, who took on the role after former CEO Phil Lynch left Asset Control in February 2013 to join SunGard as head of global...