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Conning Selects AIM Software GAIN Modules to Support Strategic Growth Plan
AIM Software is building its client base in North America with the selection of its GAIN enterprise data management (EDM) software by Conning, a global investment management firm headquartered in the region. The investment management company is implementing three GAIN modules covering security master, portfolio pricing and corporate actions as part of a drive to…
New Blood for Fenergo
Fenergo pulled off a coup today with the announcement of industry stalwart Conor Coughlan as its new Global Head of Marketing – a strategic poach from Thomson Reuters, where Coughlan has headed the marketing function for the risk division for the last two years. An award-winning B2B financial services marketer, Coughlan is a leading RegTech…
CAT Changes Could Cut Level of Client Data Collection and Shift Reporting Deadline
Changes to the controversial Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) – which will record all equities and options traded in the US – have been put forward in a bid to tackle serious concerns in the industry about the level of sensitive client data the CAT will collect. The CAT Operating Committee approved a different approach to…
Eagle Plans Cloud-Based Data Management Platform Powered by Microsoft Azure
Eagle Investment Systems is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver a cloud-based data management platform that it intends to develop into a multi-tenant solution. The platform will be powered by Microsoft Azure, although the collaboration will also build on Eagle’s private cloud, Eagle Access, to create a hybrid offer. The multi-tenant data management platform is designed…
Silwood Expands Series of GDPR Starter Packs for Major Application Packages
Silwood Technology, a vendor of metadata discovery software, has expanded its series of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Starter Packs for major application packages. Starter Packs for Oracle E-Business Suite and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 join existing solutions for SAP, JD Edwards and Siebel that are designed to help users quickly and simply identify the…
MiFID II Data Management: Where Are We Now?
Winston Churchill probably doesn’t spring to mind when considering Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), but his famous Battle of El Alamein description – “This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning” – fits the new EU regulation…
State Street Names Richard Irons as Head of Sales for Global Exchange EMEA
State Street has named Richard Irons as head of sales for Global Exchange in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Based in London, he will be responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy for Global Exchange’s solutions in EMEA, and will lead the regional sales team. He will report to David Pagliaro, head…
GoldenSource Plans Big Data Solutions, More Golden Copy Data and an EDM Utility
GoldenSource is building on its core enterprise data management (EDM) capabilities to develop big data solutions, extend the concept of golden copy data, and grow its market footprint. It is also considering the possibility of initiating an EDM utility that would provide shared infrastructure and respond to client views that ‘the time has come’. We…
IHS Markit Extends Derivatives Services Through Acquisition of DeriveXperts
IHS Markit plans to extend its derivatives data and valuations business following the acquisition of DeriveXperts, a provider of valuation services for OTC derivatives and other complex financial securities. Paris headquartered DeriveXperts specialises in daily and monthly computations of hard-to-value assets, such as equity derivatives, FX derivatives, interest rate derivatives and structured notes. IHS Markit…
Kingland Upgrades Fourth Generation Enterprise Software Platform
Kingland continues to develop the fourth-generation enterprise software platform it brought to market last year with the delivery of zero downtime deployment of platform components, improved performance, availability and security of microservices transactions, and refined artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities used to extract data from PDF documents. The introduction of the…