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OFR’s Blaszkowsky Challenges Industry to Make Data Fit for Purpose
David Blaszkowsky, senior policy advisor at the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), has challenged perceptions of data management in financial markets, saying data is not a conundrum but a business problem that can be tackled in a way that other industries have tackled problems using a rigorous and judicious approach. Speaking at this week’s…
CSC’s Ferrara: Turn Regulatory Compliance into Competitive Advantage
It is no longer enough to take a point-in-time approach to each financial regulation as it emerges. Rather, firms must adopt coherent data management strategies if they are to fulfil all compliance requirements and create competitive advantage from investing in meeting regulations. That’s the message from Davide Ferrara, partner in retail and wholesale banking, financial…
The LEI Standard: Universal Acceptance
By Bill Meenaghan, Global Product Manager, Omgeo ALERT These are interesting times for the reference data industry. Ambitions for a universal standard to quickly and easily identify the legal entities of financial institutions globally may, at one time, have been considered over-ambitious. The global coordination and project management required to establish a universal standard –…
Interactive Data Joins the Growing Crowd of Solvency II Solution Suppliers
Interactive Data pitches into the Solvency II market today with a service based on existing technology plus one data element sourced from DTCC’s Avox. The company’s Solvency II Service is available immediately to help insurance companies, asset managers and fund administrators ready themselves for the first Solvency II deadline of January 1, 2013. By this…
Reference Data Management Takes Center Stage
By Sol Zlotchenko, VP Product Management, Paladyne Systems. Market developments and a host of major regulatory initiatives are forcing the arcane world of reference data into the spotlight. Reference data drives all investment firms’ activities. As Accenture points out, accurate reference and market data are essential for effective investment decisions, trade execution, securities pricing, portfolio…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: NYSE Tech Bags Robson – What Next?
It was with a mix of satisfaction and relief that I read the press release confirming the appointment of former Thomson Reuters Enterprise group president Jon Robson as CEO of NYSE Technologies. You, of course, read it here first. The question now is what it means for our marketplace. Doubtless our colleagues over at sister…
MIK Lures Data Management Clients with Free Form PF Filing Software
No such thing as a free app? Probably not, but MIK Fund Solutions comes close with the offer of free-of-charge software for Form PF filing. The catch is simple, if users like the software, MIK hopes they will be interested in licensing its data management platform. According to Marshall Safer, co-founder and chief operating officer…
VistaOne Packages vReporter to Deliver Hosted Solvency II Solution
VistaOne Solutions, a division of Netik rebrand CoreOne Technologies, has pulled together some of its existing software and service technologies to deliver a hosted end-to-end packaged solution for Solvency II compliance. The offering is expected to be the first of many, with VistaOne planning to package the vReporter data management and reporting software it acquired…
SIX Financial Information Adds Data to Meet Final Withholding Tax Requirements
SIX Financial Information is meeting the data demands of withholding tax treaties between Switzerland and the UK, Germany and Austria with the integration of tax qualifications for securities and corporate actions in its Valordata data feed and Telekurs iD data look-up terminal. The company has been working with paying agents, essentially banks, in Switzerland over…
GoldenSource Develops Packaged Solutions for Data Management Tasks
GoldenSource is responding to market demand for quick and easy to use data management solutions with out-of-the-box products. The company’s first packaged product is GoldenSource Insight, a real-time graphical dashboard and data visualisation solution powered by Information Builders’ WebFocus platform and pre-configured with chart and report templates that integrate with the company’s enterprise data management…