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Opinion: ECB AnaCredit Project Will Subject Reference Data to a New Level of Scrutiny
By David Attenborough, Business Development Manager EMEA, AxiomSL The European Central Bank (ECB) is increasing its focus on credit risk. As part of the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) project, it plans to create a centralised register of granular data about the credit granted by financial institutions in Europe to the non-financial sector. The regulator is…
Data Management Companies Feature Highly in Institutional Investor’s 2015 Tech 50
Congratulations to our data management colleagues who have made it into Institutional Investor’s 2015 Tech 50 ranking. Among them are Lance Uggla, CEO at Markit; David Craig, president of financial and risk at Thomson Reuters; Brian Conlon, CEO at First Derivatives; Steven O’Hanlon, president and CEO at Numerix; and Brian Sentance, CEO at Xenomorph Software….
Commerzbank Details Use of Asset Control’s Data Management Platform
Commerzbank has upgraded its Asset Control AC Plus data management platform to gain extended audit capabilities, increase functionality around the creation and display of yield curves, and benefit from the company’s Risk Data Manager component, which was introduced in June and provides better risk controls than were previously available on the platform. This development is…
Silverfinch Sets Up Wiki to Support Information Sharing on Solvency II Data Model
Silverfinch, a fund data utility designed to support asset managers and insurance firms in meeting the look-through requirements of Solvency II, has set up a Wiki page dedicated to helping industry participants resolve issues around the regulation before it takes effect in January 2016. The company has loaded the Solvency II tripartite data exchange template,…
Dutch Pension Fund Service Provider PGGM Centralises Data with SimCorp Data Warehouse
PGGM Vermogensbeheer, the second largest pension fund service provider in the Netherlands managing close to €200 billion worth of pension assets and operating as a cooperative with 686,000 members, has selected Simcorp’s data warehouse to centralise data for reporting and analytics. The co-operative first worked with SimCorp in 2006, when it implemented SimCorp Dimension for…
Thomson Reuters Adds Continuous Evaluated Pricing Updates
Thomson Reuters continues to build out its pricing service with the provision of intraday evaluated pricing for government and corporate bonds, and the promise of similar evaluated pricing availability for all fixed income instruments either this year or next. The company says the addition of continuous pricing updates throughout the day from Monday to Friday…
A-Team Webinar Discusses the Challenges and Opportunities of Risk Data Management
Risk data management has become a focus for many financial institutions, not only as a means to comply with incoming regulations, but also as the basis of business benefits ranging from reacting quickly to deteriorating situations to optimising capital requirements and cutting operational costs. A recent A-Team Group webinar discussed the growing importance of risk…
Joining up your regulatory response: BCBS 239 attestation and the new Senior Manager Regime (SMR)
By Dennis Slattery, CEO, EDMworks The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is pushing forward with a strategy requiring senior managers to sign written statements or “attestations” in which they personally confirm their firm’s compliance with particular regulatory requirements. But it’s not just the FCA as global regulators are pursuing similar agendas. BCBS 239 being a case…
Opinion: Why the Client On-Boarding Conundrum Will Fuel Master Data Management (MDM) in Capital Markets
Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia for GoldenSource, explains how MDM can provide answers to the client on-boarding challenge facing financial institutions. Taking one step forward and two steps back – that’s what it must feel like for financial institutions at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution…
MoneyMate Rebrands Fund ProductMaster Platform as Accudelta and Extends Capabilities
MoneyMate Group has rebranded its Fund ProductMaster managed data service to Accudelta, creating a separate business line for the service that will sit alongside the group’s utility for secure data sharing, Silverfinch, and its market data vendor, Longboat Analytics. The rebrand coincides with improvements to the data distribution platform, including the addition of support for…