SunGard Builds on APT Risk Engine to Deliver Integrated Risk Management Service
SunGard has introduced a hosted risk management service based on the APT risk engine that has been deployed by many of its institutional buy-side clients. The so-called APT Enterprise platform embeds the risk engine and market data in a single, accessible data repository and offers users an interactive dashboard and browser-based delivery. APT Enterprise was...
Sun Street Taking a Different Approach to Data Governance
With an increasing industry focus on data governance, one vendor has been taking a different approach to managing data quality from a business point-of-view by providing exceptions workflow, a range of data enquiry tools, and ‘what-if’ scenarios for data sourcing, all of which sit on top of a financial institutions’ existing data architecture. Sun Street...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The 100 Club Circa 1977
What do Colin Hall, Colin Gibson, Rupert Brown, Chris Johnson, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Tom Dalglish, Robert Hofstetter and Neville Homer have in common? They are all part of the unique mix of familiar faces and rising stars that makes our Data Management Summit the place where the enterprise and reference data community comes to share their...
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Pushing Forward the Global LEI System
While many capital markets participants eased off the pace and headed out for a vacation over the summer, it seems there has been no slowdown for those developing the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, with the system’s Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) taking two significant steps forward in as many weeks in August. First was...
GoldenSource Responds to Market Interest in Financial Industry Business Ontology
The decision by GoldenSource to map its enterprise data management (EDM) solution to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) signals initial industry take up of the semantic standard, which GoldenSource suggests could go as far as becoming a regulatory requirement for reporting. FIBO is an initiative of the EDM Council and describes in business terms...
Volksbank Employs MXG Team for Misys to Murex Migration
Volksbank ?sterreich is working with Murex system integrator MXG Team to migrate its trading and risk management activities from Misys Summit and Kondor+ platforms to a single Murex 3.1 MXpress platform. Phase 1 of the project was completed at the end of November 2012 and migrated a Summit front-to-back office system to the Murex platform...
EDM Council Plans to Show Semantic Solution for LEI at Next Week’s FSB Meeting
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council will throw its weight behind a semantic solution for the proposed global legal entity identifier (LEI) system at next week’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) meeting of the LEI Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) in Basel. Managing director of the EDM Council, Michael Atkin, who is also a member of...
A-Team Data Management Summit: Proliferation of Entity and Securities Identifiers Adds to Data Management Burden
Legal entity and securities identifiers have hit the headlines over past months, but their value to the financial industry and how they will be used remains uncertain. Leading an industry panel at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit, A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney asked panellists for their views on securities identifiers, particularly legal entity identifiers...
Talend Closes First Half of 2011 with Significant Growth and Increased Industry Recognition
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced the results of its first half of 2011. Within the first six months of the year, the company experienced significant success with record growth as a result of new customer deals and expansion within the existing customer base. “When we entered 2011 we had identified specific...
Sifma Led Financial Association Coalition Provides OFR with a Wish List for the LEI, Sets 30 May Deadline
The 13 strong, Sifma led coalition of industry associations involved in providing feedback to the regulatory community regarding the establishment of a new global legal entity identification standard has finally produced its comprehensive list of requirements for the ID. The group has also set a deadline of the end of this month (30 May) for...