A-Team Data Management Summit: Challenges and Opportunities of Regulation
Regulatory compliance deadlines in January 2016 and 2017 are a challenge for data managers, but also an opportunity to develop data management strategies that deliver business benefits. A panel session at next week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in London will debate these issues and look at how firms are getting ready to meet the deadlines....
The Single, Simple Goal of Every Data Operation (and the Three Roadblocks to Achieving It)
By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion To compete with rivals, comply with regulations and please customers, financial institutions must achieve one solitary operational goal: better quality data through smarter, more agile and transparent processes that generate end-to-end audit trails while simultaneously using fewer human resources, rationalising technology point solutions and increasing automation without burdening...
A-Team Webinar Identifies Big Data Apps
Big Data is taking off in financial services markets as firms begin to pull together structured and unstructured data, and implement enterprise and risk apps dedicated to issues including finding alpha, managing conduct risk and analysing market sentiment. The challenges and opportunities of Big Data were debated during a recent A-Team webinar entitled Practical Uses...
Opinion: Which standards for regulating the future?
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team This week, ESMA is expected to issue the final technical standards for MiFID II and MiFIR that it will propose to the European Commission for approval. The standards can then be implemented by investment firms in...
A-Team Webinar Discusses Outstanding Challenges in the Countdown to Solvency II Compliance
The January 1, 2016 compliance deadline for Solvency II is just months away, but not all insurers and asset managers are sure they will make the date and some data management problems are expected to remain unresolved as the regulation takes effect. The countdown to compliance was discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled...
Sun Street Renames as Curium Data Systems
Sun Street Limited, the technology company behind the Curium Data Management solution, has announced that it is changing its name to Curium Data Systems Limited. The name change, effective immediately, is a result of continued growth from the Curium product and is accompanied by a series of rebranding and product marketing plans being launched today....
LSEG and Boat Prepare MiFID II Trade Reporting Solution
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Boat Services have joined forces to develop a MiFID II trade reporting solution, but plans may not end there with Boat suggesting the platform could be built out to deliver a utility-type service supporting a number of regulations. Initially, LSEG and Boat have signed heads of terms that will...
Marc Alvarez Moves to Mizuho Securities as CDO
Marc Alvarez, a market and reference data expert whose 30-year career in financial markets includes roles with technology vendors TMX Group, IDC, Asset Control and Reuters, has moved to Mizuho Securities as chief data officer and head of data governance. Alvarez’s move to a technology user company follows a one-year contract at TMX Group, where...
Opinion: Reference Data and MiFID II/MiFIR: New ESMA Consultation
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Indications from ESMA are that it still intends to issue technical standards for reference data under MiFID II/MiFIR this month, so work being done now to examine the existing draft standards should pay off by enabling...
Tata Consultancy Services Details a Strategic Approach to BCBS 239 Compliance
As the January 2016 deadline for compliance with BCBS 239 approaches, banks are making substantial data management changes in order to meet the regulation’s requirement for on-demand enterprise-wide risk data aggregation and reporting. The task is not easy and includes data management challenges posed by data silos, legacy systems and poor data governance practices, but...