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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…
Harmonising Data Can Deliver Value, But There Are Caveats
Harmonising data can help firms extract value, but success pivots on issues including the identification of business needs, effective data governance and a focus on data quality. The potential of a harmonised approach to building a strong data management foundation and reporting capability was discussed at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit during a panel…
KAS BANK Selects AIM Software to Support Digital Transformation
KAS BANK has licensed three modules of AIM Software’s GAIN business application suite as part of a digital transformation designed to the make the bank more agile and competitive. The GAIN solutions will be used to underpin data management and support the bank’s strategic focus on becoming more data driven and improving operations by streamlining…
Pontus Vision Offers Open Source GDPR Solution with GCHQ Style Security
If you are still looking for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance solution, London based regtech Pontus Vision may be able to help you with its open source, secure software that allows firms to search for any given customer and quickly access all of the data the business holds about them in a single…
SmartStream RDU Collaborates with APAs to Deliver a Centralised SI Registry
The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) is collaborating with a group of Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs) to fill a reporting gap in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) framework with a centralised Systematic Internaliser (SI) Registry that allows SIs to register financial instruments for which they are providing SI services in the…
MiFID II: Unfinished Business
Generic data issues and specific structural issues caused by the implementation of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) continue to challenge traders and brokers, despite the regulation’s relatively smooth debut on January 3, 2018 – the so-called ‘Day of the MiFIDs’. The pain points highlighted by an expert panel (see box) discussing the…
Mizuho International’s Gary Goldberg Outlines the Future of the CDO
Gary Goldberg, CDO at Mizuho International, headlined A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in London with a keynote titled ‘Using data to bring the business together’. He talked about the evolution of the CDO role, the power of data and the opportunity for the data office to become a strategic business partner. Setting the scene…
Identifying and Verifying Ultimate Beneficial Owners: Getting the Full Picture, Fast
By Paul Charmatz, Managing Director, encompass The increasing burden of identifying and verifying ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) of entities is a challenge faced by all regulated firms. However, Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations that enforce corporate transparency by identifying UBOs can reduce the risk of corruption and the cost of compliance. Firms undertaking appropriate due…