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GoldenSource Extends Enterprise Data Management Solution to Include LEI
GoldenSource has enabled its enterprise data management (EDM) software to support legal entity identifiers (LEIs), but notes that early users are seeking point solutions to address tax requirements including the LEI rather than addressing the LEI as a means of gaining a consistent and accurate view of clients and counterparties that can improve onboarding and…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Back to the (Valuations) Grind
Back from a quick break in Bordeaux – well, Perigord – to the Spring term of 2013, and back to the thorny issue of valuations, the subject of our forthcoming special report and webinar combination next Tuesday April 9. (If you haven’t registered yet you can do so here). Back in November 2011, I posted…
Mizuho International Builds on Relationship with Wolters Kluwer for Basel III Reporting
Mizuho International, the London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Financial Group, is building on an existing regulatory data management relationship with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services to meet the needs of Basel III reporting. The bank has licensed Wolters Kluwer’s Basel III compliant common reporting (CoRep), financial reporting (FinRep) and liquidity coverage ratio modules…
Thomson Reuters Details Growth of Due Diligence around Evaluated Pricing Providers
Thomson Reuters experienced a four-fold increase in due diligence meetings examining its role as an evaluated pricing provider in 2012, signalling growing pressure on financial firms to check the viability of their content providers and underlining extended expectations of transparency. Jayme Fagas, head of evaluated pricing, enterprise content, at Thomson Reuters and a speaker at…
Thomson Reuters Outlines Plans to Lighten the Burden of Symbology
Thomson Reuters has set out its store on symbology saying it does not support the promotion of new identifiers as a means of improving data management, but is keen to support industry standards and has plans to offer services such as symbology cross-referencing to ease the burden on data managers. The company documents the development…
Fenergo Enhances Client & Counterparty Data Management Solution to Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Fenergo, a provider of customer lifecycle management software, has extended the model of its Client & Counterparty Data Management solution to capture and manage additional reference data that is essential for compliance with regulations such as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), Dodd-Frank, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Markets in Financial Instruments…
StatPro Partners Interactive Data in Push to Extend Evaluations Data
StatPro has taken a leap forward in evaluated pricing data following a partnership with Interactive Data that integrates the data providers’ evaluation data on 2.8 million fixed income securities into StatPro’s Revolution cloud-based portfolio analytics solution. StatPro will continue to offer evaluated pricing for about 0.5 million global equity securities, bringing its coverage to 3.2…
Data Management Summit – the Challenges of Corporate Actions
Automating corporate actions and reducing risk associated with manual intervention is proving difficult to pin down as the financial services industry struggles with a lack of standardisation, a growing volume and complexity of events, and different regional interpretations of events. A panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit grappled with the problems…
Data Management Summit – Emerging Technologies Deliver Business Benefits
Big data, cloud computing, the semantic web, big meta data, logical data models and in-memory analytics featured in a debate about emerging technologies for enterprise architecture at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. Colin Gibson, head of data architecture, markets and international banking at the Royal Bank of Scotland set the scene describing data…
Data Management Summit – Solving the Onshore or Offshore Conundrum
Christopher Bannocks, global head of reference data at Barclays Bank, detailed the pros and cons of offshoring and onshoring data management at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, concluding that value creation rather than cost arbitrage has become the decider on where work should be placed. He also fired a shot across the bows…