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Xenomorph Refines TimeScape Functionality with Data Validation Dashboard
Xenomorph continues to refine its TimeScape data management and analytics platform with a data validation dashboard designed to give users the benefits of better workflow control and exceptions handling, higher quality data and a data management solution based on familiar Microsoft technologies. The company has developed the TimeScape Data Validation Dashboard with two banking clients…
Opinion: From Lehman to Amazon – Rethinking Financial Data Management
By Richard Petti, CEO, Asset Control The tide of regulation is rising inexorably, swamping the financial services sector with ever more prescriptive disclosure requirements; from Dodd-Frank to Basel III and Solvency II, the regulatory response to the enduring financial crisis continues to evolve but the direction of change is constant. It’s widely acknowledged that the…
Morningstar Augments Solvency II Solutions with UBS Delta’s Capital Requirement Calculations
Morningstar UK has extended its range of Solvency II solutions for asset managers through a partnership with UBS Delta that adds fund level Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) calculations to the company’s fund portfolio holdings data and Solvency II classifications. Morningstar has included fund portfolio holdings data for many years and Solvency II classification data since…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Data Utility – Inflexion Point?
For me, one of the most entertaining and informative sessions at our Data Management Summit in London last month was the panel on utilities. Yes, it was a little busy – with no fewer than six (count ‘em!) panellists – but the discussion certainly got the blood flowing. The utility panel session at our DMS…
Opinion: A Smarter Approach to the New Austrian Reporting Requirements
By Lauren Dearmer, Product Marketing Manager, Wolters Kluwer Financial Over the last couple of years Austria’s Central Bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), has been working with the financial services industry to radically restructure the way in which financial data is reported. The project was initiated to ‘improve the data quality, specifically methodological soundness and data…
Opinion: Will New Liquidity Reporting Lead to a Big Chill?
By Georges Bory, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Quartet FS The collapse and bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 is an extreme example of what can happen when the ratio of liquidity holdings to potential debt is inadequate. The bank was hit with a liquidity crisis as a result of the collapse in the sub-prime mortgage…
Etrali introduces Check Suite to Support Compliance with FCA and CFTC Rules on Call Recording
Etrali Trading Solutions has pulled together functionality it offers around the recording, storing and retrieval of traders’ voice calls to deliver Etrali Check Suite, a solution designed to help firms maintain compliance on the trading floor. The company previously provided on-site engineer checks of recording solutions as part of a managed service, but has packaged…
Opinion: Move over EDM – It’s Time for Collaborative Data Management
By Nigel Pickering, Founder, 1View Solutions Designing a data warehouse or consolidated database is next to impossible in a big company, or at the very least prohibitively expensive. The first step on the journey is defining the database that the user community wants or needs. While that sounds simple, for a large organisation it is…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Steep Learning Curve for Adaptive Trading
As many of you know, we like to spend some time with the marketplace to try to understand some of the nuances of the topics we cover, particularly as we prepare for our big conferences, like the forthcoming Intelligent Trading Summit in New York on May 13. Attendees of our London equivalent last month will…
Opinion: Regulators Blink on Derivatives Reform – Industry Leadership Required
By Allan D. Grody While the complications of Obama Care reform in the US has reached all Americans directly, the complications of the implementation of the swaps risk regime are similarly ‘problematic.’ But they are not yet well enough understood to touch the lives of everyday people, although indirectly they will impact everyone through higher…