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The Lowdown from FIMA 2010: Reference Data Review Reports from the Show Floor

This year’s FIMA saw panellists debate the importance of reference data management in an environment that is increasingly focused on data quality and timeliness as a result of intense regulatory and industry scrutiny of the financial sector. Reference Data Review interviewed a number of speakers on the show floor for their views on the developments....

Ref Data Needs to go “Back to Basics” to Consider End User Requirements, Says Deutsche Bank’s Sean Taylor

Last year, Deutsche Bank’s director of financial intermediaries Sean Taylor predicted that the “winds of change” were due to blow through the reference data industry and this year’s FIMA saw him elaborate on what has changed thus far as a result of a regulatory shakeup and the profound shift in the way firms view risk management....

PolarLake Announce World’s First Semantic Web-based Reference Data Management Platform

PolarLake has announced the availability of the world’s first reference data management platform based on semantic web technologies. The platform enables the acquisition, management and distribution of vendor and internally sourced reference data. Already being used by a number of tier 1 financial services firms, the platform enables, data loading 11x faster, queries 17x faster...

Paladyne Releases Latest Version of its Reference Data Management Suite

Paladyne Systems, a provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced the release of Paladyne Security Master 7.0 and Paladyne Price Master 7.0, the major components of Paladyne’s reference data management suite. This release introduces many new product features and extends many areas of existing functionality. Today, Paladyne’s reference data management products are used...

Thomson Reuters Poaches Credit Suisse’s Hinds as its New Global Head of EDM to Lend User Cred to its Enterprise Ambitions

In line with its recent spate of hiring and reshuffles as it continues to integrate its business units, data giant Thomson Reuters has hired ex-programme manager for reference data at Credit Suisse Sally Hinds as its new global head of enterprise data management (EDM). It has been a year of change for Hinds, who was...

Cadis’ Simpson Elaborates on Recent Wins and Partnership Plans

EDM vendor Cadis has bagged 14 clients so far this year and is potentially set to sign three or four more before 2010 is out, according to CEO Daniel Simpson. The vendor, which has been touting its new Solvency II focused solution since its launch at Sibos last month, has also recently signed a deal...

Panopticon Partners with GoldenSource to Extend Scope of Data Visualization for the Securities and Investment Management Industry

Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and time series data, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with GoldenSource, a data management provider for the securities and investment management industry, to provide a user-friendly reporting and data visualization layer to its data management systems. GoldenSource will...

If You Can’t Explain the Benefits to the Business, You Probably Shouldn’t be Doing the Project, Says UBS’ Webster

The business benefits of investment in data management projects should be obvious in terms of improving efficiency and saving costs, said Ian Webster, global head of data management at UBS Asset Management to attendees at FIMA’s focus day in London. If there are no definitive practical benefits that can be explained to the business, then...

Reference Data Review on Securities Matching from the Sibos 2010 Opening Plenary

One of Swift’s biggest pushes for the securities sector as part of its new 2015 strategy is in the securities matching services space. During the Sibos 2010 opening plenary, Swift played the following video, demonstrating industry perspectives on this initiative. Reference Data Review elaborated on the utility versus competitive approach. Video of 16535038

A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Vendor Requirements

What do institutions want from their vendors, and what do they think about how they are stacking up? A discussion of the survey scores, with focus on data quality and transparency. Video 2 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 7 minutes 33 seconds