Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Eikon – A Window to Enterprise Data
At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? While the initial vision may have been of a modern premium trader desktop, the latest incarnation is more of a...
Bloomberg Integrates OneTick with EMSX to Augment Analytics
Bloomberg has augmented the analytics available to users of its EMSX execution management system with the integration of OneTick’s complex event processing (CEP) engine and database. The aim is to offer more actionable analytics and provide EMSX users with access to real-time venue analytics, intra-day market impact analytics and advanced liquidity signal indications. Bloomberg looked...
SAS Combines Software Modules to Deliver Capital Management Solution
SAS has packaged two of its existing software modules to deliver SAS Capital Planning and Management, a solution designed to help banks meet regulatory and internal capital management requirements quickly and efficiently. The package combines SAS Financial Management with specific capabilities added for capital planning, such as calculation rules and capital allocation, with SAS Operations...
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Solutions to Solve the Data Management Conundrum
As in-house reference data management models near breaking point, talk is turning to hosted solutions, managed services and data utilities. These solutions could provide some of the cost reductions that firms must find, but they do not come without their own problems of data quality, responsibility for data, timely collection and distribution of data and,...
Thomson Reuters Embeds Tagging Technology to Improve Transparency of Benchmark Submissions
Thomson Reuters has embedded tagging technology into its Enterprise Platform software with the aim of helping banks improve transparency and reporting around benchmark submissions and other contributed data. The development is a timely response to the issue flagged by the recent penalties imposed on banks for rigging of the key Libor benchmark. The Thomson Reuters...
EDMworks Debates the Data Management Demands of Regulatory and Business Change
As numerous regulations come into force this year and financial firms pursue product innovation, client retention and cost reduction, the pressure is on to deliver data management programmes that can absorb change and meet both regulatory and business requirements. The EDMworks Data Practitioner Network gathered recently to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by regulatory...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Getting Real About The Utility Model
There’s been a lot of air – some of it hot – expressed around the concept of a shared utility for reference data management. On my travels around the City, and on Wall Street, I get the sense of a polarisation of views, between the perhaps naively optimistic and the deeply cynical. What’s a utility...
Swift Replaces SwiftRef Event Data with SmartStream Global Holiday Calendar
Swift has added SmartStream Technologies’ Global Holiday Calendar to its SwiftRef reference data utility, replacing calendar data from Copp Clark and delivering global events data in real time. SwiftRef was introduced a couple of years ago and has since been developed with the addition of more data and more frequent updates. Patrik Neutjens, head of...
Eze Software Prepares a Data Management Solution for AIFMD Reporting
Eze Software Group is bringing its experience of data management for Form PF, a Dodd Frank reporting requirement, to reporting under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). It is also encouraging funds within the scope of the directive to meet this week’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) deadline to file a Variant of Permission (VOP)...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: No Rest for the Wicked
I don’t know about you but the misconception that I could ease back into the swing of things post-holidays was rapidly blown away last week and continues to be blown away in a whirlwind of activity. At the risk of coming across as naively optimistic, members of our community across the board seem to be...