Agio Technology Targets Top 200 Hedge Funds with Outsourcing Offering, Plans HK Office Opening This Year
Pressure to focus on the core of their business is driving hedge funds to outsource many of the operational aspects of their business, including data management, explains Bart McDonough, CEO and founder of the new vendor on the managed services block, Agio Technology. Following nearly nine years of working in a systems architecture role for...
Trillium Software Unveils Latest Version of Trillium Software System to Help Companies Achieve Data Certainty
Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, announced today its latest version of the Trillium Software System. This newly-released software platform provides an easy-to-navigate interface which supports the data lifecycle methodology that companies engage in to “Discover, Develop, Deploy and Manage” their information quality initiatives. Designed to visualise data issues, improve business rule validation and enhance...
Regulators Focusing on Data Sharing Cross Border, Says FRSGlobal’s Blair-Ford
Not only is the regulatory community asking firms to get their data management systems in order, it is also seeking greater coordination between its own constituents, explains Selwyn Blair-Ford, head of global regulatory policy at solution vendor FRSGlobal. A lot of the recent work that has gone into structuring the new EU regulatory framework has...
Agio Technology Names Nakashian as Head of Client Services
Agio Technology, a provider of managed IT services for premier hedge funds, today announced that it has appointed Nicole Nakashian, former executive director at UBS Investment Bank, as managing director, Client Services. “Nicole was our number one choice to lead Client Services since our inception,” says Bart McDonough, CEO of Agio Technology. “She is very...
UK FSA’s Living Wills Deadline Creeps Closer, Data Challenges Incoming
Six of the UK’s largest banks will be required to submit their preliminary draft recovery and resolution plans to the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) next month as part of the regulator’s living wills pilot programme. In order to be able to submit these drafts by the end of October, HSBC, Barclays, Royal Bank of...
EDM Council Readies Industry Benchmarking Survey, Continues Semantics Repository Development
The EDM Council has been working in partnership with IT consultancy firm Headstrong to put together a global data management benchmarking survey, aimed at providing comparable metrics on the data management projects going on across the industry. The survey involved 65 firms and will be discussed at an upcoming launch event in New York in...
Netik Promotes Lott to Head of Product Management
Netik, a global provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, announced today the promotion of Brian Lott to the role of head of product management. He will sit on Netik’s executive management team reporting directly to Rob Flatley, CEO and president of Netik. Lott will assume responsibility for all strategic product direction...
Two Implementation Phases Down, Four More to go at ABN Amro, Says PaceMetrics’ Giblin
After six months of implementation time, EDM vendor PaceMetrics has completed the first two phases of ABN Amro’s data management project, which it began as a follow up to the acquisition of a portion of its business by a consortium last year. According to Gerry Giblin, CEO of PaceMetrics, the firms started talking back in...
Goldman Sachs Selects Lucsan Capital to Assist with Data Migration Projects
Lucsan Capital, an innovative technology, consulting services and advisory group specialising in system implementation and data migration for the financial services sector, is pleased to announce that they have been selected by Goldman Sachs & Partners Australia Pty Ltd (Goldman Sachs) to assist with two major data migration projects. Lucsan Capital will provide a range...
ABN AMRO Deploys PaceMetrics’ Assure Data Management Solution
PaceMetrics, a global provider of process-driven enterprise data management solutions, today announced that Dutch bank ABN AMRO has implemented its Assure solution to manage data across all asset classes. Now live, Assure will enable continuous management of pricing and reference data, including data cleansing and distribution to a large number of downstream systems and departments....