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Opinion: Unique Data Types Needed for Capital Markets
By Robert Iati, Senior Director, Capital Markets, Dun & Bradstreet We’ve been hearing about the importance of Big Data for what seems like decades, but investment banks often approach data projects with insufficient attention to reference data. Typically, this is due to a prominent focus on ultra-fast market data and a limited amount of discretionary…
Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator Increases Transparency of Evaluated Pricing
Thomson Reuters has partnered with data analytics specialist Trovo to produce Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator, a software solution that automates reference data and pricing workflows, and allows users to search and analyse data from a wide range of data sources, compare multiple pricing options and optimise valuation and risk activities. The solution is data vendor…
Opinion: Why the Client Onboarding Conundrum will Fuel Master Data Management in Capital Markets
By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia, GoldenSource Taking one step forward and two steps back is what financial institutions must feel they are doing at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution to manage all reference, counterparty, client and customer data in one place ticks all the…
Rimes Employs Economic Framework to Calculate Benefits of Managed Data Services
Rimes Technologies has developed a framework to help potential customers discover the return on investment, payback time and benefits they can achieve by deploying the company’s cloud-based managed data services. The framework results from a Economic Impact study commissioned by Rimes to evaluate the financial impact of the company’s benchmark, reference data and data governance…
CPL Collapses; DTCC’s Avox in Line to Scoop Up Assets
CounterpartyLink is rumoured to have collapsed after falling into financial difficulties and failing to find an investor. Data Management Review understands that DTCC’s Avox is in line to purchase certain assets, thereby eliminating a competitor from the entity data business. A letter was circulated to clients of CounterpartyLink today informing them of the news. It…
DTCC Consolidates Data Products and Provisioning to Deliver DTCC Data Products and Data-As-A-Service
DTCC has embarked on a data management journey that will initially deliver a centralised data provisioning service called DTCC Data Products and later a Data-as-a-Service capability that will transform the way data is provisioned from fixed and custom feed delivery to on-demand data access. DTCC Data Products is a response to client demand for more…
Opinion: Data Management – Keeping the Financial Market Airborne
By Martijn Groot, VP Product Strategy, Asset Control In this new era of stress testing, how many financial institutions risk being grounded by the financial equivalent of air traffic control for failing to meet the new, challenging risk requirements? The production of risk and stress data is no longer a one off risk management exercise…
Achmea Combines Eagle Data Management with BNY Mellon Services to support Solvency II Compliance
Achmea, the largest insurance company in the Netherlands, is up and running with a Solvency II compliance solution that combines cloud-based enterprise data management from Eagle Investment Systems with data stewardship and administration services from its parent BNY Mellon. The company has been a BNY Mellon client since 2008, with BNY Mellon acting as its…
Global LEI Foundation and Regulatory Oversight Committee Address Data Quality and Hierarchy issues of Global LEI System
The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) is making significant progress as the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) makes operational improvements to the system and the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) prepares a consultation paper on how hierarchy data can be added to the business card data already attached to LEIs. On the operational front, the GLEIF…
Thomson Reuters TRPS Plus Provides Transparency into Evaluated Pricing of Structured Notes and OTC Derivatives
Thomson Reuters continues to build out its pricing service with the addition of Thomson Reuters Pricing Service Plus (TRPS Plus), a DataScope Select service offering transparency into the evaluated pricing of structured notes and hard to value OTC derivatives. TRPS Plus follows the company’s April 2015 introduction of AskTRPS, a price challenge tool for fixed…