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BCBS 239 and Beyond: Avoid the Traps and Navigate the Changing Landscape

The incoming Head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), reiterated the significance of The Senior Management Regime (SMR), which became law on 7th March. This gives executive management legal responsibility for their decisions. BCBS 239 regulates assembly of data used for these decisions. Individual managers are accountable for decisions they take and for ensuring data…

Schroders Selects Clarient Entity Hub to Support Know Your Customer Processes

Schroders Investment Management (Luxembourg) has selected Clarient Entity Hub to support Know Your Customer (KYC) processing for intermediary and institutional investors at its Luxembourg funds hub, and to help counterparties complete their KYC processing on Schroders’ Luxembourg funds. Before joining the Clarient Entity Hub, which offers a utility based service designed to simplify client data…

SmartStream Names Haytham Kaddoura as CEO, Philippe Chambadal as President

SmartStream Technologies has moved Philippe Chambadal from the role of CEO to the position of president and named Haytham Kaddoura as CEO. As president, Chambadal will focus on strategic initiatives, such as the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) and anticipated acquisitions, leaving day-to-day management of the company to Kaddoura. Kaddoura, a management consultant working with…

Is Information or Cyber Security finally becoming a strategic board level issue?

By Steve Daniels, Strategic Business Advisor – Cyber Security, CGI It’s my opinion that cyber security has for too long been seen by business leaders as a tactical activity left to a breed of specialists. Certainly, CGI research entitled ‘Cyber security in the boardroom: UK plc at risk’ found that 28% of respondents said this…

A-Team Webinar Discusses Progress in Data Lineage Implementation

The implementation of data lineage by financial institutions is making progress driven by regulations such as BCBS 239, Solvency II and the incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is due to take effect in 2018. It is also delivering early operational and business benefits that are expected to increase significantly as data lineage capability…

Data Management Summit Focuses on Blockchain and Fintech

Blockchain technology and fintech firms are high on the hype list, but their practical contribution to data management is beginning to materialise and is expected to be the subject of robust discussion at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in New York. Adam Bryan, an independent consultant, will moderate a panel session at the summit…

New York Data Management Summit Considers the Challenges of Transformation

Transformational change in data management is on the agenda at many financial institutions, but how best can it be achieved and what types of solutions are available to support it? These questions and more will be addressed by experts during a panel session at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in New York. Independent consultant…

Xenomorph Integrates TimeScape EDM+ with MongoDB NoSQL Database

Xenomorph has integrated its TimeScape EDM+ enterprise data management solution with the MongoDB NoSQL document database. The integration is available immediately and allows users to benefit from both the data processing and analytics of TimeScape EDM+, and the data storage scale and retrieval capabilities of the MongoDB open source platform. The integration is designed to…

The Next Game Changers for Data Governance

By Dennis Slattery, CEO at EDMworks Three seemingly unconnected pieces of legislation will fundamentally change the data management landscape over the next three years. They all have different causes, but their combined effect will be to enforce accountability for data, reinforce governance, underpin data architecture and mandate data quality management: The General Data Protection Regulation…

Synechron Acquisition of Hatstand Extends Data Management Capability

Synechron has acquired financial services consultancy and capital markets specialist Hatstand with a view to building out its data management, regulation and risk capabilities. The company also gains Hatstand’s expertise in terminal consolidation. The acquisition of Hatstand follows a string of acquisitions made last year by Synechron, a New York based consulting and technology company…