Data Management Summit: Keynote Questions the Use of Sticks or Carrots in Data Architecture
Putting data architecture before data management, Colin Gibson, head of data architecture in the markets division of Royal Bank of Scotland, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London. As well as a deep dive into data architecture, the summit considered the role of the chief data officer, drivers...
DTCC Plans Roll Out of Global Client Reference Data Service
DTCC’s joint development of a client entity reference data utility with a number of global banks is expected to yield first results early next year, with an initial release of a client reference data service to be followed by further releases through the year. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a...
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Towards Analytics
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team Towers in anticipation of tomorrow’s Data Management Summit at the America Square conference centre in London. If you haven’t registered already, you can here. But you’d better hurry up. As readers know, I’ve been discussing the content and approach of this DMS event for quite some time, so I’ll...
Sapient Global Markets Adds Sentiment to Data Management Maturity Assessment
Sapient Global Markets, a division of Sapient dedicated to technology services for capital and commodity markets, is taking a sentiment-based approach to data management maturity assessment with a service that is designed to expedite the process, provide a heat map of maturity across an enterprise and inform spending decisions. The company’s Sentiment-Based Data Management Maturity...
Linedata Repackages Fund Accounting Solution to Offer Investment Book of Records
Linedata has repackaged the components of its Icon fund accounting software to deliver an investment book of records (Ibor) platform that aggregates data from multiple sources across an organisation and manages position data to provide start-of-day and intraday views of positions and cash. Called Linedata I-BOR, the platform operates in real time and provides historical...
NYSE Technologies and First Derivatives Detail Shared Services
The tie-up of NYSE Technologies and First Derivatives to deliver ‘as a service’ solutions combines data provided by the former and Delta products from the latter, with the first solution, Tick as a Service, due to be introduced next month. The partnership is exclusive and will see NYSE Technologies taking the lead on marketing ‘as...
Talking Reference Data with Reference Data: Maximising Utility
It comes as no surprise at all that the managed services panel at our Data Management Summit in London next week is the most oversubscribed. Everyone wants to be on it. That reflects the mood in London that I’ve picked up on in recent months. The concept of outsourcing data management to a third party...
Russia’s National Settlement Depository Selects GoldenSource for Corporate Actions Solution
GoldenSource has secured a contract with Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD), which will use the vendor’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform for the distribution of automated corporate actions data across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The contract was signed last week and the parties expect to have initial elements of the system up and...
Eagle Taps In-Memory VoltDB For Performance Measurement
BNY Mellon unit Eagle Investment Systems has selected and will resell in-memory database technology from VoltDB. Eagle will leverage the VoltDB database to underpin real-time analytics and decision support functionality initially for its performance measurement offering. VoltDB is an ACID-compliant relational database offering a SQL interface and Java stored procedures, designed to support high velocity...
Experts Debate the Data Management Issues of Fatca
Financial institutions in the scope of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) need to start work on compliance immediately, if they have not already done so, as deadlines are looming, the data management task is onerous and penalties for non-compliance are severe. This call for action was made in an A-Team Group webinar...