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Risklab Centralises Risk Data Management with Xenomorph TimeScape

Risklab, the investment and risk solutions specialist within Allianz Global Investors, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape to provide a dynamic risk data management platform that can support the risk services it operates on behalf of its institutional clients. The company considered a number of data management solutions before selecting Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management system….

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney – Back in N.Y.C.

On a conference call the other day chatting about – what else? – LEI, a friend remarked on how ridiculously busy he was. Jetting about the place, flying in to here and there, meeting with clients, risking life and limb for the good of the company. “It’s that time of the year,” he said. “Budget…

GoldenSource Offers Hosted Enterprise Data Management Platform

GoldenSource is back in the off-the-shelf solutions market with a hosted version of its enterprise data management (EDM) platform. The company released the first in a planned series of packaged applications, the GoldenSource Insight dashboard, earlier this month. GoldenSource OnDemand, like the packaged products, is a response to increasing cost pressure in the market and…

Market Participants Focus on the Cost, Adoption and Long-Term Success of the LEI

Issues of cost, adoption and long-term success dominated a debate on the legal entity identifier (LEI) held in London last week. The debate on ‘The Implications of Building a Global Legal Entity Identifier’ – organised by Interactive Data and Goodacre – featured speakers from DTCC, HSBC Securities, JP Morgan and Interactive Data. Mark Davies, vice…

S&P Capital IQ Works with Dun & Bradstreet to Build Out Private Company Data

S&P Capital IQ has more than doubled its coverage of private company data in Western Europe and North America following a deal with Dun & Bradstreet to provide raw data that is then cleaned and checked for integrity by S&P Capital IQ. While S&P Capital IQ has offered some private company information for a couple…

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…