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Onwards and Upwards for Autorek
AutoRek, a global financial controls, regulatory reporting and data management platform headquartered in Glasgow, has big ambitions – seeking to expand into new markets following a big win for its reconciliation business with the addition this month of the Bank of England as its latest client. The firm, which launched back in 1994 as an…
From Wall Street to the Fashion District: Applying Big Data Principles to the Fashion Industry
By Ken Price, Founding Partner, Blake Mill. Having worked within financial technology, risk and data management for the majority of my career, I have found the transition from this sector to fashion ecommerce both fascinating and challenging. Most surprising to me was the applicability of the data quality and analysis disciplines I used in the…
Hierarchies – Approach with Care
By Colin Gibson, Architecture & Data Management Consultant at Katano Limited. What is the item you find hardest to locate in a supermarket? You know where to find it in your local store, but what confounds you when you try to find it in a different chain? What about Bovril Yeast Extract (other yeast extract…
MEET THE MAKER … Seth Brotman, CEO of Canoe Intelligence
Welcome to our newest interview series introducing the most innovative entrepreneurs and start-ups breaking the mold within the Data Management space. Have you heard of Canoe Intelligence yet? First launched in 2018, this adventurous enterprise applies sophisticated machine-learning and artificial intelligence techniques to reduce the burden of manual investment data management by transforming unstructured reporting…
Collibra Debuts Data Lineage Solution
Collibra has revealed its latest solution, a data lineage tool that enables organizations to understand where data comes from and how it flows and transforms across the enterprise. The launch marks the first integration since the firm acquired automated technical lineage provider SQLdep back in July 2019. Targeting large enterprises, the solution offers native lineage…
Decision-Making, Not Compliance, Drives Data Governance Programs
Data governance drivers have shifted, with better decision-making now a priority when it comes to data governance decisions – but organizations are still grappling with data governance challenges and still depend largely on manual approaches for data lineage, data cataloguing and data mapping. So finds data modelling specialist erwin in its latest report on the…
IHS Markit and MSCI Team Up on Yet Another ESG Initiative
In the latest signal that ESG (environmental, social and governance) data is becoming big news, last week saw yet another initiative in the sustainable investment space as MSCI joined forces with information and analytics giant IHS Markit to broaden the reach of its ESG data and research services via collaboration on a range of fixed…
Goldman Sachs Integrates Bloomberg Pricing and Reference Data for Digital Clients
Goldman Sachs will integrate Bloomberg’s Data License content with its own client-facing Marquee platform, making it the first global investment bank to use Bloomberg data for in-house applications offered to clients. In 2018 Bloomberg expanded its Data License content (which sits within its Enterprise Data business) from 12,000 data fields to over 40,000 – building…
Can EQT Partners Repeat $3 Billion BvD Flip with Rimes Investment?
Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners has emerged as the mystery suitor behind talk that managed data management specialist Rimes Technologies was up for sale. EQT is best known in the data management space as the investor that in 2014 acquired entity data specialist Bureau van Dijk (BvD) and flipped it three years later to…
DTCC Adds API Marketplace to Streamline Access to Services
DTCC has introduced an Application Programming Interface (API) Marketplace to provide its clients, partners and internal developers with a central location for APIs developed by DTCC. The solution externalises and extends an internal DTCC API marketplace for developers that was established about a year ago, and is designed to streamline access to services and improve…