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Video: Data Quality & Risk Management Panel at FIMA 2009

A-Team Group CEO Angela Wilbraham leads a panel discussion at FIMA 2009 titled, “Leveraging Data Quality to Build an Effective Risk Management Strategy”. Panelists include: Matthew Cox, Head of Securities Data Management, BNY Mellon, and Guy Leroux, Operational Risk Manager, Global Banking & Markets, RBS. Video of 7688823

Video: John Randles from PolarLake Talks to RDR at FIMA 2009

John Randles, CEO of PolarLake, talks to Reference Data Review. Video of 7724504

Video: John Mason from SmartStream Presents at FIMA 2009

John Mason, CEO for DClear Utilities at SmartStream, delivered a presentation titled “The Next Wave of Outsourcing: Taking operational efficiency to the next level” at FIMA 2009 in London. The entire presentation is embedded below, divided into three video segments. Click the play buttons to view them now. Video of 7726224

Majority of Reference Data Review Readers Facing Staffing Freezes or Job Cuts

Our November Reference Data Review reader poll indicates that times are tough for data management teams out there, with the majority facing either a moratorium on hiring new staff or job cuts. Despite the increased market volatility and its knock on impact on data volumes, most data managers are being forced to make do with...

Stronger SLAs, Governance and Data Champions are Recurring Themes at FIMA 2009

As well as the discussions around data standards and utilities, keeping a closer eye on your vendors, finding data champions and internal governance strategies were recurring themes throughout this year’s FIMA conference in London. Speakers challenges delegates to ask more of their third party vendor providers and to identify data champions within their own institutions...

JWG-IT’s Di Giammarino Elaborates on Five Elements of Successful Data Strategy

In a follow up to his comments at last week’s FIMA 2009 conference, PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of think tank JWG-IT, speaks to Reference Data Review about his perspectives on where the data management community should be focusing its attentions. “Financial institutions and the data professionals working in them do not live in a black...

Video: Gert Raeves from GoldenSource Talks to RDR at FIMA 2009

Gert Raeves, SVP of Strategic Business Development & Marketing at GoldenSource, talks to Reference Data Review. Video of 7724325

Kingland Systems Integrates IBM Software to Enhance Master Data Management Solutions for Financial Institutions

Kingland Systems, a provider of financial services software and data solutions, today announced it will embed IBM’s InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and other IBM software into its 360 Data line of enterprise data management solutions for the financial services industry through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with IBM. This agreement marks an expansion...

Alps Improves Client Reporting and Delivers Enhanced Online Service to Customers with Netik Information Portal

Netik, the global financial data management and reporting vendor, is pleased to announce that Alps Fund Services, a provider of asset servicing to the investment management industry, has successfully implemented Netik Information Portal to address their internal and external reporting needs. Since going live with Netik Information Portal, Alps has seen a reduction in the...

PolarLake Signs Unnamed Asset Management Firm Deal

PolarLake today announced it has signed a deal with one of the world’s leading asset management firms to use the PolarLake Reference Data Distribution (RDD) product as part of its strategic enterprise data management (EDM) programme. PolarLake will enable the firm, headquartered in the US with global operations, to distribute instrument, issuer, pricing, ratings, terms...