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DSB Industry Consultation Calls for Improved Data Quality and Cybersecurity
Following our recent report on the results of the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) first 2019 industry consultation the Bureau has today released the results of its second 2019 industry consultation. In line with the first 2019 report, the second shows ongoing industry interest in further analysis of DSB functionality with a view to the delivery…
Kingland Innovates to Meet Market Need for More Effective and Efficient Data Usage
Kingland is responding to financial institutions’ growing desire to use and manage their data to better effect and greater efficiency with the provision of solutions including artificial intelligence (AI) and text analytics. It is also focusing on firms’ ongoing challenges around core functionality such as entity data management for Know Your Customer (KYC), enterprise risk…
Active Legal Entity Identifiers Set to Top 1.5 Million by End 2019
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is forecast to pass the 1.5 million mark of active identifiers in the fourth quarter of this year, another landmark for the LEI, which has seen relatively slow adoption despite capital markets participants’ calls for data standards. The fourth quarter forecast is made in the Global LEI Foundation’s (GLEIF’s) second…
DataRobot on FactSet Adds Machine Learning into Investment Workflow
In early August, FactSet and DataRobot introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) investment workflow, DataRobot on FactSet, an automated machine learning (ML) tool that helps financial services firms – particularly those lacking significant data science teams – incorporate AI into their investment workflows. At the moment there is a shortage of data scientists within the investment…
Using Data Lineage to Manage Regulatory Compliance and Financial Reporting
By Mark Hermeling, Chief Technology Officer at Asset Control. Within data management, data lineage is increasingly becoming an important capability. From pinpointing the origins of data to how it evolves over time allows a wide range of sectors to achieve a clear view of their data, track the data exactly, and use it to assist…
SimCorp Completes AIM Software Acquisition, Details Data Management Strategy
At the beginning of August, SimCorp completed its acquisition of AIM Software. The integration of AIM’s data management capabilities is a strategic focus for SimCorp as it addresses an investment industry trend towards closer alignment of data management with other technology solutions. AIM’s data management solution, GAIN, will be renamed SimCorp Gain, and SimCorp says…
Axioma Partners OpenFin to Optimise User Experience, Workflows and App Deployment
Axioma, a provider of services including multi-asset enterprise risk management, portfolio construction, performance attribution, regulatory reporting and custom index design to portfolio managers, has partnered OpenFin to integrate its axiomaBlue technology layer with the OpenFin operating system for desktop interoperability. The result is designed to be a combined technology stack that provides front and back-end…
Regulators Discuss SM&CR and IT Failure at UK Parliamentary Hearings
The UK’s parliament’s treasury committee recently held a series of hearings on IT failures in the financial sector. Over the course of the hearings, at which representatives of the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulatory Authority spoke, the regulators discussed work completed and work in progress around operational resilience in…
Collibra Looks to the Future with New Privacy & Risk Product
US-based data intelligence specialist Collibra in July built out its data platform with the launch of Collibra Privacy & Risk, a new enterprise-grade product designed to help organizations manage personal data assets and future-proof against further regulatory developments in today’s changing climate. The new product expands the firm’s regulatory coverage, with modules covering the California…
Refinitiv Shareholders Agree Merger Deal with LSE, David Craig Remains CEO of Refinitiv
Following our review of the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) proposed acquisition of Refinitiv through a transaction valued at $27 billion, Refinitiv today announced that its shareholders have agreed definitive terms with LSEG on the acquisition. The approval of LSEG shareholders will be sought at a general meeting to be held before the end of…