DMS Review: Regulation, Data Complexity Seen as Key Drivers in Coming 18 Months
Regulation will be the main challenge for data managers over the next two years, but it won’t be the only challenge as data complexity and volumes increase, business users demand better data, and unstructured data becomes part of the big picture. Still more, these challenges must be tackled in an environment of cost constraint. That...
DMS Review: Emerging Technologies Respond to the Challenges of Data Management
High performance technologies can support the delivery of efficient and effective data management, but they are not the only tools for the task as financial firms strive to centralise reference data, deliver the right data at the right time, and move towards on demand, always available data. This was the assessment of a panel of...
DMS Review: Chief Data Officers Rise Above Operations to Set Data Management Strategy
The role of chief data officer (CDO) has become increasingly prevalent in financial services firms over the past couple of years. It has no exact definition, but tends towards responsibility for strategy and change, rather than data and operations. Discussing the role of the CDO and how to measure the success of the data management...
DMS Review: Reference Data Utilities Offer Cost Savings, but Challenges Remain
Managed services and utilities can cut the cost of reference data, but to be truly effective managed services must be more flexible and utilities must address issues of data access and security. A panel session led by A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London set out to discover...
Data Management Summit: Keynote Questions the Use of Sticks or Carrots in Data Architecture
Putting data architecture before data management, Colin Gibson, head of data architecture in the markets division of Royal Bank of Scotland, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. As well as a deep dive into data architecture, the summit considered the role of the chief data officer, drivers...
DTCC Plans Roll Out of Global Client Reference Data Service
DTCC’s joint development of a client entity reference data utility with a number of global banks is expected to yield first results early next year, with an initial release of a client reference data service to be followed by further releases through the year. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Towards Analytics
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team Towers in anticipation of tomorrow’s Data Management Summit at the America Square conference centre in London. If you haven’t registered already, you can here. But you’d better hurry up. As readers know, I’ve been discussing the content and approach of this DMS event for quite some time, so I’ll...
Sapient Global Markets Adds Sentiment to Data Management Maturity Assessment
Sapient Global Markets, a division of Sapient dedicated to technology services for capital and commodity markets, is taking a sentiment-based approach to data management maturity assessment with a service that is designed to expedite the process, provide a heat map of maturity across an enterprise and inform spending decisions. The company’s Sentiment-Based Data Management Maturity...
Linedata Repackages Fund Accounting Solution to Offer Investment Book of Records
Linedata has repackaged the components of its Icon fund accounting software to deliver an investment book of records (Ibor) platform that aggregates data from multiple sources across an organisation and manages position data to provide start-of-day and intraday views of positions and cash. Called Linedata I-BOR, the platform operates in real time and provides historical...
NYSE Technologies and First Derivatives Detail Shared Services
The tie-up of NYSE Technologies and First Derivatives to deliver ‘as a service’ solutions combines data provided by the former and Delta products from the latter, with the first solution, Tick as a Service, due to be introduced next month. The partnership is exclusive and will see NYSE Technologies taking the lead on marketing ‘as...