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Software Vendors Welcome Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ Partner Programme
Software vendors and end users have welcomed the formalisation of Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions’ vendor partner programme that allows financial software vendors to make their apps ‘Bloomberg ready’ by connecting them to Bloomberg applications and providing access to Bloomberg data. Bloomberg introduced the programme with 125 financial software partners offering everything from order, execution and risk…
Opinion: The Digital Data Navigator (Dat Nav?) Era – Part 2
Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft PLC. This section looks ahead to see if there are lessons from the age of digital cartography to provide insights into how data management and navigation might develop in the next few years. The Digital Divide Financial services organisations and their suppliers are still struggling to produce the data equivalent…
Moody’s Analytics Releases Enterprise Version of Solvency II Solution for Life Insurers
Moody’s Analytics has released an enterprise version of its B&H Proxy Generator, which is designed to help life insurers perform fast asset and liability calculations for Solvency II Internal Model and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment purposes. The enterprise version, V3.0, can be deployed centrally and accessed by multiple users, expanding on V2.0, which is…
First Derivatives and Pivotal Collaborate on Next-Generation Data Architecture
First Derivatives (FD) is providing consulting services around technology from Pivotal with a view to helping customers build next-generation data architectures and applications for risk management, regulatory compliance, market surveillance and trading. FD will work initially to help clients install and commission Pivotal software and build out intelligent data lakes using semantic tagging, but expects…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A New Kind of Single Source of the Truth
I’ve been struck in recent months by the changing attitudes within our marketplace to the concept of a golden copy, or single, accepted source of the truth as far as reference data is concerned. The industry seems to be moving away from established principles of on-site enterprise data management, most visibly – noisily, perhaps? –…
LEI Adoption Will Raise Standards, Governance & Transparency, says Webinar Panel – Even if It Isn’t Obvious Yet
The turmoil and confusion caused by the adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI’s) for EMIR reporting last month will be worth it in the end, was the overriding conclusion of our expert webinar panel last week, who expect to eventually see meaningful improvements to industry standards, governance and transparency as a result. The panel comprising…
Opinion: Data Management – Taking the Bus Without a Map?
Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft PLC. The first maps were probably scratched with sticks on the ground for people from the same locality who knew the surrounding area. Now when travelling we use satellite navigation. But when navigating data it feels as if we are still scratching around. We use electronic documents, not sticks, but…
Thomson Reuters Benchmark Services Unit to Echo RTSL
Thomson Reuters’ decision to set up a subsidiary to provide financial benchmark services reflects not only the company’s strength in this area – it has grown its portfolio of benchmarks to 160 over the past 25 years – but also the wider industry’s desire to distance itself from benchmark scandals and rebuild trust as it…
Thomson Reuters Eases the Burden of KYC Compliance with Accelus Org ID Managed Service
Thomson Reuters has set up a managed service designed to help financial institutions and their clients comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. Called Accelus Org ID, the service aims to increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of compliance by providing accurate, up to date identity data and avoiding the need to repeat the…
CounterpartyLink Adds Risk Screening to Legal Entity Information Service
CounterpartyLink has augmented its legal entity and counterparty intelligence service through a partnership with RDC, a provider of risk and compliance data for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, Politically Exposed Persons protection, corruption, fraud and crime protection, vendor screening and monitoring, and credit risk monitoring. The partnership is a response to…