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Thomson Reuters Develops Accelus Governance, Risk and Compliance Platform
Thomson Reuters is building out its Accelus governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform with an updated user interface for Accelus Risk Manager, additional workflow tools and further functionality including the company’s BoardLink portal, enhanced disclosure capabilities and e-learning. Thomson Reuters’ GRC business was established about three years ago, with the Accelus brand following about six…
OFI Mandats Switches from Deployed to SaaS Version of Linedata Chorus
OFI Mandats, the investment management services provider for insurance funds within OFI Group, has switched from the in-house deployed version of Linedata’s Chorus investment accounting software to the recently released software-as-a-service (SaaS) version. Its aim is to modernise and improve the security of the solutions it offers to its clients and, through the inclusion of…
SAS Integrates Technologies to Deliver Decision Manager Platform
SAS has pulled together existing and new technologies to deliver SAS Decision Manager, a platform that integrates predictive analytics, business rules and data management to support decision making. The platform is also being built into other SAS products with the first to host the technology being SAS High-Performance Risk. The risk solution uses the platform…
Volante Partners SwiftRef to Offer Users a Single Source of Payments Reference Data
Financial data integration specialist Volante Technologies has joined the SwiftRef partner programme, allowing its users to connect to the payments reference data utility and access datasets and query tools required to make timely and accurate payments. The companies have worked together for some years, with Volante technology offering transformation between messaging formats for over 70…
Razor Risk and Numerix Partnership Delivers Integrated Enterprise Risk Solution
TMX Group’s Razor Risk Technologies, the Australian enterprise risk provider acquired by TMX early last year, has teamed up with Numerix to strengthen its front-office capability and offer an integrated front-to-back risk solution. The Razor platform will call on Numerix’s pricing models for its credit risk, market risk and economic capital management solutions, supporting clients…
Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Data Quality and the LEI
Progress in the development of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system, including the issue of 83,000 pre-LEIs by two active pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs), is acting as a catalyst for change with many financial institutions investing heavily to get their entity data in order. The process should prove beneficial in terms of improved data…
StatPro Adds Regulatory Compliance Solutions to Revolution Cloud Platform
StatPro has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to the StatPro Revolution App Store. The module is designed to help asset managers meet UCITS IV regulation and is the first in series of regulatory compliance solutions being developed for the StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics cloud platform. The exposure and liquidity monitoring tool is…
Big Data and Rising Internet Use Require Innovative Reference Data Management Solutions
Big data and internet proliferation are creating great opportunities in the financial sector, but firms must move quickly to develop innovative reference data solutions if they are to take advantage of these opportunities and remain competitive. Presenting at an ISITC Europe reference data briefing, Ken Price, vice president of sales at data management specialist Strevus…
Swift Enhances SwiftRef Reference Data Utility and Plans Managed Services
Swift is building on last year’s introduction of SwiftRef, its payments reference data utility, with plans to extend web and cloud data services and develop managed services around the data it collects, cleanses, consolidates and publishes. SwiftRef went live in January 2012 and is delivering 194 data files every day to about 1,000 subscribers worldwide….
Markit Plans New-Build Corporate Actions Platform Post Acquisition of DTCC’s GCA Validation Service
Markit’s acquisition of DTCC’s Global Corporate Actions (GCA) Validation Service has been some time in the making – we first flagged it in Reference Data Review back in February – but it is a significant move for the company as it pursues a managed services strategy. The deal will be finalised on 1 July, at…