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Data Management Strategy: The Next Chapter
With regulatory compliance still at the top of the agenda and business demand for meaningful data rising, is your firm’s data management strategy effective? Join next week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City to answer the question with the help of Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream RDU. Moss will discuss today’s data management…
Asset Control Adds ACX Cloud-Based Data Exploration and Distribution Platform
Asset Control has released ACX, a cloud-deployed delivery, storage and analytics platform designed to manage increasing data volumes, reduce infrastructure costs and provide business and technical users with easy access to data exploration. The platform is an additional module in the company’s AC Plus product family and includes open source technologies, although it is not…
Gearing up for GIPS 20/20
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute released the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) 20/20 Exposure Draft for public comment late last month. The draft outlines significant changes to the current standards that could alter financial firms’ approaches to compliance. Comments on the draft must be made by December 31, 2018, with final adoption of the…
Data Service Bureau Details Functional Changes – And Their Costs
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) set up to issue ISINs for OTC derivatives under MiFID II has published a report covering functional changes that will be made based on industry feedback to a second industry consultation that opened at the end of June 2018 and closed a month later. The final consultation report also notes industry interest…
Nasdaq Adds Alt Data Sets Analytics Hub Platform
By Uri Inspector, Staff Reporter Nasdaq’s Analytics Hub, an alternative data platform for institutional investors, fund managers and traders, has expanded its offering with a string of new and diverse data sets. The additions include an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) offering, a social media sentiment data set, a global news aggregator and a supply…
AIM Software, West Highland Partner to Target Front-, Middle-Office EDM
EDM platform provider AIM Software has partnered with New York-based West Highland Support Services to forge a combined offering aimed at addressing the data management challenges faced by front- and middle-office operations managers. The move expands AIM’s activities in the US, home to its financial backers Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and where most recently…
Could Privatisation Give Dun & Bradstreet the Push It Needs to Succeed?
The $6.9 billion acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) by a consortium of private equity investors led by CC Capital and Cannae Holdings, announced this week, could herald the streamlining and modernisation of the venerable 177-year-old, publicly traded credit data specialist, according to observers. Founded in 1841 as a credit information provider, the company is…
Silwood Adds Collibra to Fast-Growing Reseller List
Collibra will resell Silwood Technology’s Safyr self-service metadata discovery software, under a partnership arrangement between the two companies. The accord will enable financial institutions to draw metadata from their SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft ERP and CRM packages into Collibra’s Data Governance and Catalog solutions. Safyr provides a single source of intelligence for users who…
AxiomSL to Assist Bank of China with French AnaCredit Reporting Needs
Bank of China, which first started using AxiomSL’s regulatory capabilities back in 2015 to meet liquidity reporting requirements in Singapore, has extended its use of the platform to implement AnaCredit reporting requirements in France. AnaCredit is a project set up by the European Central Bank (ECB) to collect detailed information on individual bank loans in…
Quilter Investments Opts For Managed EDM Service From IHS Markit
Quilter Investments (formerly Old Mutual Investment Management), a London-based fund manager with over £17 billion in assets under management, has selected IHS Markit to provide it with a new Enterprise Data Management (EDM) system for security and account master management. Quiler Investments will also utilise IHS Markit’s investment management solution, thinkFolio, to distribute the data…