Charles River Adds Thomson Reuters Pricing & Reference Data to its Managed Data Service?
Charles River, an enterprise-wide, front- and middle-office investment management solution provider, has enhanced its Managed Data Service with the addition of Thomson Reuters pricing and reference data. This is the latest in a series of continued enhancements to the Charles River Data Service which provides benchmark, reference and issuer data, real-time pricing and new security...
Data Management Summit: Trending Technologies
State-of-the-art technologies such as hardware acceleration and in-memory databases increase processing speeds and support high performance analytics, making them first choice for some, but not all, trading environments. Moderating debate about the promise of big data and high performance analytics technologies at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London, A-Team chief content officer Andrew...
Data Management Summit Keynote: Enterprise Data Governance
Data governance is less about data and more about trust, trust between people and trusted information that can open up business opportunities for financial services firms and deliver benefits to customers and shareholders. Presenting a keynote at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London, Lorraine Waters, deputy group chief data officer at HSBC, outlined...
Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Rewards of KYC Compliance
Financial firms are investing significant sums to meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements, but there are rewards beyond regulatory compliance for those that take a centralised approach to collecting and managing client data and documentation. Addressing the data management challenges of KYC and client on-boarding at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in London, A-Team chief...
Standard Bank South Africa Implements Eagle Solutions
Standard Bank South Africa is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ accounting and enterprise data management solutions across its private client business. The solutions will be hosted on Eagle’s Access private cloud and will support the bank as it centralises operations and moves towards a single record of data. The bank is replacing legacy systems with the...
Pictet Integrates Wolters Kluwer Risk and Reporting Solutions to Create Single Platform
Pictet Group is extending its use of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services solutions with the addition of the supplier’s financial risk management software to existing regulatory reporting capabilities. The Geneva-based asset manager has started to integrate the solutions with a view to creating a single platform and standardised data management processes across its risk and finance...
Data Management Summit: Building Enterprise Architecture
The increasing importance of data management as a business driver brings with it questions about the underlying enterprise architecture that supports it. Should legacy systems be part of the architecture, is it best to build or buy new systems, and how can enterprise architecture projects be designed in the first place? Matt Cox, director and...
Data Management Summit: New Models for Data Management
Managed services and data utilities hold the promise of reduced data management costs, streamlined operations and support for regulatory compliance, but they also raise questions about flexibility, legacy systems and the ongoing costs of internal data management. These issues, and more, were debated during a panel session moderated by Chris Bannocks, founder of Grasp Associates,...
Data Management Summit Keynote: The Builders and The Architects
Data management veteran and SmartStream senior vice president, Tom Dalglish, led this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London with a thought provoking keynote covering ‘all things data’. He started with a review of what he called a tumultuous year in which people, including himself, moved jobs, data management solution vendors changed hands, and...
Orchestra Networks Adds Data Governance and Visualisation to Latest Release of EBX5
Orchestra Networks has added data governance and visualisation to its EBX5 master and reference data management software in response to customer demand and in line with its strategy of delivering a complete multi-domain data management solution including governance, metadata and master and reference data. Release 5.5.1 of EBX5, which manages data such as country codes,...