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Thomson Reuters’ Craig Talks up a More Integrated Approach to Risk Data
The launch of its new Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business unit at the end of last month, is the culmination of two years of integration work behind the scenes at data giant Thomson Reuters. David Craig, who was recently appointed president of the business unit, explains to Reference Data Review that GRC is aiming to support…
SIX Telekurs Expands its Evaluated Pricing Business
Responding to the more stringent demands of the latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and the increasing client need for transparency, SIX Telekurs has re-structured and expanded its Evaluated Pricing business. SIX Telekurs’ Evaluated Pricing is a solution which provides prices for a broad selection of fixed income instruments and derivatives, which are independent, transparent,…
JWG’s Di Giammarino Elaborates on Data Shortcomings of Industry’s Attempt to “Know Your Exposure”
Industry think tank JWG has just completed a research project into the industry’s level of preparation for the risk management challenges involved in the incoming tsunami of regulatory requirements that indicates a lot still needs to be done to get the right level of risk data consistency and accuracy. Conducted over the summer months and…
A Tower of Babel for Risk Data
There’s nothing better than a good analogy and this week’s JWG organised panel discussion on the topic of funds transfer pricing (FTP) saw one of the banking industry panellists (Chatham House rules prevent me from naming names) come up with a particularly good (if well used) description of the risk data challenge as one in…
Principia Adds Intex Performance Data to Structured Finance Platform
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance investments, today announced its integration of Intex performance data into the Principia Structured Finance Platform (Principia SFP). Intex Historical Collateral Performance Data for an extensive range of measures, including delinquency, loss and prepayment rates for over 23,000 Intex modelled RMBS, ABS, CMBS…
Instrument and Entity Identification are Key Issues for MiFID Forum’s Transaction Reporting Subject Group
Given the high profile fines that have been handed out over the last 12 months in the UK for data related transaction reporting failures, it is no surprise that the subject of entity and instrument identification is top of the list for the recently formed Transaction Reporting Subject Group of the MiFID Forum. Alan Jenkins,…
Broadridge Announces Shareholder Forum in Canada
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced the Canadian rollout of Shareholder Forum, a hosted online venue where validated shareholders can submit questions, vote their shares, respond to surveys and interact directly with their corporate issuers year-round. Corporate shareholders are increasingly relying on online tools to obtain information, voice their opinions, communicate and vote. The Broadridge Shareholder…
Eagle Expands EMEA Team
Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, today announced that it has hired a new regional sales director to address the business development needs of existing clients and prospects in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Atul Mehta brings extensive knowledge and experience selling back office systems…
Four Weeks and Counting…
Four weeks and counting until the juggernaut that is Sibos rolls into Amsterdam and already I’m struggling to fit all the meetings into the week and make sure I can attend the sessions relevant to my particular data focused corner of the market. As I noted back in May when the conference programme was first…
QBE European Operations Selects DataFlux to Improve the Value of its Corporate Information
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced that QBE, a business insurance specialist with operations in 18 European markets, has selected DataFlux technology to help it improve the quality of data within its European data warehouse and to enhance its data migration process for systems consolidation. QBE will use DataFlux technology to standardise,…