Kingland White Paper and Webinar Discuss How to Improve Entity Data Quality
Reliable entity data is critical to business strategy, but it can be difficult to manage, raising questions about how financial institutions can improve the measurement of entity data quality and manage it in a way that best suits their organisation. Answering the questions are emerging cognitive technologies that can identify and automatically fix incorrect entity...
Spreadsheets: Empowering Users while Managing Operational Risk
By Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph I read a great piece in the FT by Lisa Pollack recently about the future of spreadsheets and their potential to bridge the gap between those of us who don’t program and those that do. The piece referred to the broad global community of more than 750 million Excel users...
General Data Protection Regulation Calls for Increased Investment in Data Security and Governance
Paul Nemitz, the director for fundamental rights in the justice directorate of the European Commission, has warned companies operating in the EU that they must invest in data security to ensure they can demonstrate compliance with the data privacy by design and security elements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and thus reduce potential...
Top Tips for Overcoming the Challenges and Achieving the Benefits of Data Quality
Improving and sustaining data quality has become essential to meeting business and regulatory compliance requirements across capital markets, but challenges remain with firms facing problems raised by data silos, disparate data sources, large data volumes, lack of standardisation and a poor understanding of data quality across the organisation. Addressing these issues, a recent A-Team Group...
Synechron Apps Support Fast Implementation of Blockchain Solutions
Business consulting and technology services provider Synechron has released six blockchain applications designed to help financial institutions get up and running on a blockchain network or in a sandbox environment within weeks. The applications are cloud based and include solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC), global payments, trade finance, smart margin calls, insurance claims processing...
Solving the Outstanding Pain Points of Solvency II
Solvency II continues to trouble insurance firms and asset managers, with many insurers still using manual workarounds and struggling to get the fund look through element of the regulation right despite the elapse of nine months since the compliance deadline on January 1, 2016. The ongoing pain points and potential benefits of a successful Solvency...
Peter Moss Discusses His Plans for the SmartStream Reference Data Utility
The appointment of Peter Moss as CEO of SmartStream’s Reference Data Utility (RDU) signals renewed energy behind the utility and a drive to move beyond early users and make the RDU a solution for many financial institutions, as well as a commercial success for SmartStream. Moss joined the company in August, a year or so...
Expert Advice on the Implementation of Client Lifecycle Management
Financial institutions implementing client lifecycle management solutions are challenged by working across departments, poor data quality and sourcing required data – but despite these challenges, once implemented these solutions can provide significant operational and business benefits. The challenges and benefits of implementing client lifecycle management were discussed during a recent webinar covering best practice solutions....
Sapient Releases Synapse Platform to Support Data Usage and Requirements Management
Sapient Global Markets has released Synapse, a hosted platform designed to help business and technology users manage data requirements and metadata, accelerate project delivery, and increase accountability. The platform brings together siloed metadata to create a more efficient way for firms to track, view and analyse data usage and understand how user actions affect other...
SmartStream Names Peter Moss as CEO of its Reference Data Utility
SmartStream Technologies has named Peer Moss, former head of Thomson Reuters Financial division, as CEO of its Reference Data Utility (RDU). Moss joins the company after 25 years with Thomson Reuters, during which time he set up the Thomson Reuters Enterprise business, was responsible for the data and technology operations of the Financial Markets business...