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DTCC Consolidates Data Products and Provisioning to Deliver DTCC Data Products and Data-As-A-Service

DTCC has embarked on a data management journey that will initially deliver a centralised data provisioning service called DTCC Data Products and later a Data-as-a-Service capability that will transform the way data is provisioned from fixed and custom feed delivery to on-demand data access. DTCC Data Products is a response to client demand for more...

Opinion: Data Management – Keeping the Financial Market Airborne

By Martijn Groot, VP Product Strategy, Asset Control In this new era of stress testing, how many financial institutions risk being grounded by the financial equivalent of air traffic control for failing to meet the new, challenging risk requirements? The production of risk and stress data is no longer a one off risk management exercise...

Achmea Combines Eagle Data Management with BNY Mellon Services to support Solvency II Compliance

Achmea, the largest insurance company in the Netherlands, is up and running with a Solvency II compliance solution that combines cloud-based enterprise data management from Eagle Investment Systems with data stewardship and administration services from its parent BNY Mellon. The company has been a BNY Mellon client since 2008, with BNY Mellon acting as its...

Nice Actimize Integrates with Alacra to Deliver Automated Customer Due Diligence Suite

Nice Actimize has pulled together its customer due diligence anti-money laundering software and Alacra’s Compliance Enterprise customer onboarding data platform to deliver the Actimize Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Suite, an enterprise solution that automates onboarding and ongoing customer risk profiles. The Actimize CDD Suite allows banks to manage CDD operations centrally and support multiple Know...

SS&C Technologies Gets Clearance to Acquire Advent Software

SS&C Technologies has been given the go-ahead for its acquisition of Advent Software by the US Department of Justice. The companies reached a definitive agreement on the $2.7 billion acquisition back in February and now expect the transaction to close in the third quarter of this year. The acquisition of Advent is one of 40...

DTCC Recommends Data Harmonisation Across Trade Repositories

DTCC has recommended that global trade repositories in the OTC derivatives market should harmonise 30 data fields that are critical to financial stability and systemic risk analysis. The company, which operates Global Trade Repository, the industry’s largest derivatives trade reporting service spanning nine jurisdictions, made its recommendations this week to the harmonisation working group overseen...

AxiomSL Offers AnaCredit Reporting and Prepares for CRS and MiFID II

AxiomSL is ready to support the reporting requirements of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) regulation, which is expected to affect a large number of financial institutions in the European Union and is due to be implemented in stages from the end of 2017. AnaCredit aims to create a central register of...

Time to put Legal Contract Data Front & Centre

By Akber Datoo, Founder and Partner, D2 Legal Technology LLP Every financial institution knows the essential importance of legal contract information – it underpins everything from regulatory compliance and the management/optimisation of capital, liquidity and collateral. So why are just 16% of organisations completely satisfied with the current level of contract data accuracy? The implications...

Asset Control Adds Risk Data Management Component to AC Plus Platform

Asset Control has added a risk data management component designed to help risk managers improve risk data governance to its AC Plus data management platform. Called AC Risk Data Manager, the component uses the underlying data management platform to integrate risk data from across an organisation and allows risk managers to view and manage risk...

SIX Financial Information Adds AIFMD Data Service to Regulatory Solutions

SIX Financial Information has added a data service that supports compliance with the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) to its regulatory solutions and is preparing further services for forthcoming regulations. The company’s AIFMD service includes the data needed by alternative investment fund managers to register themselves and their managed funds as required by the...