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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: That Was the Week that Was
I’m sure I’ve used that headline before but it seems apt: two conferences in one week, plus a data management training session in conjunction with our friends at EDM Works and JWG. Yes, last week was quite a week. For those of you that attended, I’m sure you’ll agree that Thursday’s Data Management Summit was…
Data Management Summit: Regulatory Challenges Demand Better Data Management & Risk Data Aggregation
The increasing complexity and more onerous obligations of new regulatory initiatives, particularly the recent EMIR deadlines, is demanding more sophisticated data management and better risk data aggregation programmes at banks and other financial institutions, according to industry experts at the A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit (DMS) last week. The panellists agreed that too much of…
Data Management Summit: IBM and GoldenSource Unveil Reference Data Utility Solution
IBM used its participation in A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit last week to unveil details of its partnership with GoldenSource to deliver a reference data utility. The partners are running the GoldenSource enterprise data management (EDM) platform in the IBM cloud to provide the utility and are talking to prospective clients that are considering the…
Data Management Summit: UBS’s Brown on Creating a Data Map of the Financial Enterprise
Rupert Brown, lead architect in the office of the CTO at UBS Investment Bank, opened the A-Team Group Data Management Summit with a keynote presentation covering the creation of a data map for a financial enterprise. Taking a traditional map as his starting point and later touching on the topographical nature of the London Underground…
Euroclear Bank and SmartStream Build Out Central Data Utility
When Euroclear Bank and SmartStream joined forces in November 2012 to deliver a centralised reference data utility, many financial services firms were beginning to realise the need to improve data management and deliver higher quality data at a lower cost. Fast forward two years and the pressure to review and renew failing data management models…
Managed Reference Data Services – Are Utility Models the Way Forward?
The combination of cost, complexity and compliance are driving managers of reference data to examine new delivery models that avoid the duplication, manual intervention and expense of current business methods. But is a utility or managed service provider the best way forward? From recent industry conversations, not only do many believe it is, but are…
Regulatory Oversight Committee of the Global LEI System Addresses Demand for a Common Data Format
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has addressed the need for a common data format that can be used by all pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) with a set of basic data elements. It has also endorsed more pre-LOUs, bringing the total to 12. The basic data elements of…
Bank Muddles Over EMIR Compliance Could See Strategic Acceptance of New IT Business Models
As many as half of Europe’s financial institutions will have been “caught on the hop” and are now having to catch up after the latest deadline for complying with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) came into force last week, according to a leading industry observer. Elizabeth Goodchild, a senior consultant with Rules Financial, said…
Sapient Global Markets Details the Challenges and Opportunities of Trading on Swap Execution Facilities
As the US swaps market began the transition from telephone trading to electronic trading on swap execution facilities (SEFs) this week, a number of issues hung in the balance, including which of the SEFs that have registered with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will be successful, how vendors can support firms trading on…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: COREP/FINREP – Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Last week’s Regulatory Update seminar, hosted by Lombard Risk, was an eye-opener for anyone who thought their work was done after the past year’s huge efforts on COREP. In particular, the session focused on the challenges to come with respect to reporting under CRD IV, FINREP and incoming Asset Encumbrance (AE) rules. Indeed, such is…