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Princeton Financial Systems Automates KID Creation for Financial Institutions
Princeton Financial Systems (PFS) today announced Switzerland based companies, Vontobel and Swisscanto recently joined a growing list of European institutions to use PFS’ solutions to support their Key Investor Information Documents (KID) creation process. PFS customers can organise and automate this process in accordance with current regulatory standards, which ranges from data provision to the…
New JWG Study Shows Firms Slow to Respond to Risk Data Management Requirements
Research launched by JWG today finds that global financial services organisations are not actively reviewing their risk data quality processes following the fall-out of the financial crisis. The study, which includes responses from 20 risk, data, and finance professionals in 16 global firms, shows that, while risk data quality is a pertinent issue, little has…
Broadridge Financial Solutions CEO Calls for Nationwide Effort to Increase Individual Shareholder Voting
In remarks before the National Press Club this morning, the chief executive of the nation’s largest shareholder communications company called on all CEOs to encourage individual shareholders, including employee shareholders, to vote their proxies. “In 2010, just one in 20 individual retail investors voiced their opinions about the companies they invested in by exercising their…
Sage and Talend Form Partnership to Boost Sage ERP X3 Interoperability Performances
Sage, a business management software provider and Talend, the worldwide leader in open source integration solutions, today announced the completion of a partnership, which will integrate Talend’s integration technologies with Sage ERP X3, Sage plc’s global ERP solution aimed at medium sized companies. Thanks to this global partnership, Sage ERP X3 customers will benefit from…
Schroders’ Walsh and HSBC’s Johnson Discuss the Tension Between Data Inputs and Outputs in the Face of Regulatory Change
The buy side community’s data managers are being faced with a tricky balancing act of ensuring their output to clients is optimised from a technology and data standpoint and that their data inputs are of sufficiently high quality for regulatory and client purposes, according to panellists at last week’s A-Team Group and SmartStream roundtable. Speaking…
Cadis Platform Puts Robeco in Control of Data Consumption
Robeco, the Netherlands based asset management specialist, has streamlined its data needs via the Cadis EDM platform. Live since February 2011, Cadis, the global EDM specialist, provides Robeco’s Price, Rates and Security Master Management – increasing flexibility and transparency. The decision to choose Cadis comes after a highly effective Proof of Concept (PoC) which saw…
Back Office Exec Registration on the Cards for Broker-Dealers, But What Impact Will it Have on Data Management?
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has this month announced that it will be pushing ahead with its proposals to introduce registration requirements for back office operations execs within broker-dealer firms. But what will be the financial and practical impact on these back office functions, including data management and potentially outsourced operations roles, in the…
Knock on Effect
The close link between data quality and better risk management has come under the spotlight in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and the ensuing regulatory crackdown on financial markets. Regulators such as the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have even been making noises…
ESMA Praises Joined up Approach to Valuations and Risk Management in IAS 39 Hedge Accounting Changes
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent a letter to the head of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) regarding its views and concerns about incoming hedge accounting changes that are included in the recent exposure draft on IAS 39. ESMA indicates in the letter that the proposals will allow for a more…
Opinion: Identifying Portfolio Exposures with Cross Reference Data
By Jackson Griffith, Director of Enterprise Solutions, S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, McGraw-Hill Financial When a negative market event occurs, risk managers need to quickly determine their exposure to it and the impact it may have on their portfolio. Exposure can come in many forms and may not be obvious at first glance. For example,…