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Winners of the 2016 Data Management Review Awards
This year’s DMR awards ceremony was a tremendous event with 18 award winners, an entertaining address by guest speaker Mark Foster, one of Britain’s most decorated male swimmers, and a five-star lunch in the splendour of the Merchant Taylors’ Hall. A-Team Group CEO, Angela Wilbraham, and President, Andrew Delaney, hosted the event and were joined…
A-Team Webinar Addresses Rising Requirement for Accurate Shareholding Disclosure
Shareholding disclosure requirements are moving up the data management agenda at financial institutions as regulators increase their focus on systemic risk. A-Team will discuss the challenges of accurate shareholding disclosure during a webinar next Tuesday and present the results of a recent industry survey focused on how financial institutions are addressing shareholding disclosure obligations. The…
Thomson Reuters Lays Off Staff as Reorganisation Cuts 2,000 Jobs
Thomson Reuters is cutting 2,000 jobs as part of a reorganisation that kicked in this week with staff layoffs. Thomson Reuters announced the job cuts, 4% of its workforce of about 48,000 people globally, as it reported a slight dip in third quarter profit and flat revenue. The cuts will be made across 39 countries…
PRIIPs Compliance Deadline Postponed to January 2018
The European Commission has postponed the application date of Packaged Retail and Insurance based Investment Products (PRIIPs) regulation by a year, moving the date to 1 January 2018 and aligning compliance with that of Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II). The Commission’s decision to postpone PRIIPs and the creation of associated Key Information Documents…
LumRisk Scales with Markit EDM Managed Service
LumRisk, a Geneva based risk aggregating service provider, has gone live with the managed service version of Markit EDM. The enterprise data management solution improves LumRisk’s hedge fund and alternative risk premia (ARP) platform, allowing data analysis and risk monitoring services to be scaled up. LumRisk considered several enterprise data management solutions before selecting Markit…
Expert Guidance on How Best to Implement a Market Data Inventory Platform
Market data inventory platforms are becoming essential to financial institutions’ ability to manage market data costs, and for some firms costs such as index licensing, research, and publications and subscriptions – but how best can firms select and implement market data inventory platforms, and what benefits can be gained? These questions and more were answered…
Best Practice Approaches to the Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
The data management challenges of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) are dominated by sourcing required data and managing multiple identifiers, but despite these difficulties, financial institutions expect to gain significant operational and business benefits from compliance. Meeting the data management challenges of MiFID II was the subject of an A-Team Group webinar…
DMR Receives Mixed Response on ANNA Derivatives Service Bureau Article
Our recent item on the Association of National Numbering Agencies’ (ANNA) proposed Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has sparked a mixed set of reactions from the marketplace. The DMR article suggested questions about the operation of the DSB, which will allocate ISINs for OTC derivatives. Unsurprisingly, interested parties had widely divergent views on the DMR article….
GoldenSource Discusses the Pitfalls and Potential of Entity Data Management
Entity data is a fundamental building block of many systems, but all too often large financial institutions fail to manage the data strategically and incur negative customer reactions, increased costs and regulatory reporting errors. The solution to these problems is an enterprise-wide approach to entity data secured by strong data governance. The problems and potential…
ANNA Derivatives Service Bureau Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
The story of MiFID II and the selection of the ISIN as an identifier for all instruments in scope of the regulation, including OTC derivatives, has taken another turn, perhaps a final turn, with the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) pressing on with the build of a Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) by issuing an…