SIX Financial Information Takes Solvency II Compliance Solution to Market
SIX Financial Information has brought together the reference data requirements of Solvency II to deliver a compliance service that is available immediately and is being implemented with initial insurance clients ahead of take-up among asset managers. The service uses reference data already owned by SIX Financial Information as well as some new attributes. These include...
OpenGamma Includes Redis In-Memory Technology in Margining Platform
OpenGamma has the Redis in-memory data management technology with its own analytics and risk engine to create a margining platform offering. The new platform is designed to support fast and precise calculations, allowing clearing members to meet the initial margin calculation requirements of central counterparties on OTC swap transactions. OpenGamma developed the new margining platform...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The CDO Complex
Quietly, amid our industry’s X-Factor-like preoccupation with the comings and goings at NYSE Technologies (Robson, Roche, Wombat, NYFIX – all going), there have been some equally significant human capital movements within the reference and enterprise data space. Most notably, perhaps, is that Barclays has named a group chief data officer. And this is no ordinary...
SIX Financial Information Adds Bloomberg Global Identifiers to Data Feeds
SIX Financial Information has incorporated Bloomberg Global Identifiers (BBGIDs) into its Valordata Feed and plans to do the same for its Market Data Feed, a development that adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to more than 30 security identification schemes already supported by the company. BBGIDs are available immediately and at no extra cost within the Valordata...
Xenomorph Extends Reach of TimeScape into Commercial Banking Sector
Xenomorph has extended the reach of its capital markets data management and analytics solution TimeScape into the institutional and commercial banking sector through an arrangement with client engagement platform provider i2i Logic. i2i Logic, a start-up company, is using the cloud version of Xenomorph’s TimeScape, which runs in the Windows Azure cloud, and Xenomorph’s recent...
Interactive Data Offers Ready-to-Test Fatca Data Service
Interactive Data has added its name to the list of market data vendors with reference data offerings designed to meet the compliance requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). It is also talking to third-party software providers about working together to provide complete solutions that could be easier for customers to implement...
HSBC Group CDO Details the Requirements of Data Management Strategy and Practice
The chief data officer (CDO) needs to be a change agent with the aim of making data part of the business-as-usual process. Speaking at last week’s FIMA conference, Peter Serenita, group chief data officer at HSBC, described the role of the CDO and how best to develop data management strategy and practice. On the role...
A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View
Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only...
SAP and SAS Partnership Develops In-Memory Analytics for Big Data
SAP and SAS have signed a strategic agreement to develop data management and analytics solutions that allow SAS’s analytics applications to run on SAP’s HANA in-memory platform. The aim is to deliver real-time data analysis, with early solutions due in the first half of next year. The partners plan to develop high-performance solutions across a...
GoldenSource, SIX Provide FATCA Solution for Big UK Bank
GoldenSource has secured its first customer for the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) solution it has developed using its enterprise data management (EDM) platform and Connections service. The customer, a UK-based global universal bank, has also signed a contract with SIX Financial Information to provide data for the FATCA solution. The GoldenSource Connections...