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A-Team Group Interview about Valuations Data Benchmarking Results
A three minute overview about the valuations data seminar, organised by Interactive Data and moderated by A-Team Group, and the findings from A-Team’s recent performance benchmarking survey on valuations data. Andrew Delaney discusses the focus with A-Team’s CEO Angela Wilbraham. Running time: 3 minutes 4 seconds
SunGard’s Hug Talks up the Need for an Integrated Framework for Risk and Capital Management
There is a gradual change going on across the industry from considering compliance with the Basel framework as a box ticking exercise to using these underlying risk management practices as an opportunity to more intelligently allocate capital, conduct profitability analyses and make better business decisions, according to Andi Hug, general manager for SunGard’s Ambit Risk…
GoldenSource’s Vanlint Elaborates on Heightened Focus on Risk Data Management
EDM vendor GoldenSource’s recent risk data management focused launch is reflective of the requirement in the market for increased transparency around the data used to make risk management decisions, explains Neill Vanlint, managing director of Europe and Asia at the vendor. Regulatory developments such as Basel III and Solvency II are driving firms to adopt…
Datanomic Set to Dominate AsiaPac Risk and Compliance Screening Market with Comprehensive Japanese and Chinese Text Matching
Risk and compliance screening and enterprise data management specialist, Datanomic, today announced its intent to dominate the AsiaPac market with the enhancement of transliteration capabilities for its dn:Director for Sanctions & PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) Screening solution through an extended partnership with the CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI), one of the world’s leading providers of Chinese,…
ECB’s Trichet on the Importance of Stats: Reading from the Ref Data Utility Hymn Sheet?
Last month, European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet delivered the opening address to the central bank’s own conference on statistics and much of his speech was strangely familiar. Referring directly to the need for a “public reference data utility” that could provide “standardised information on instruments and entities that would be operated on the…
DTCC’s Lancaster Joins Swift as MD of Securities for the Americas
Following more than six years as vice president of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Global Corporate Actions (GCA) business unit, earlier this year Brett Lancaster joined industry network operator Swift as its new managing director of Securities for the Americas region. In line with his work alongside Swift and XBRL US in the…
Capital IQ Appoints Ted Vivian to Accelerate Market Share in EMEA
Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor’s business and a provider of data and analytics for global financial professionals, today announced that Ted Vivian has joined its London office as head of client development for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In this role, Vivian will be managing global sales operations and large client accounts in five…
Kingland Continues Innovation with 360 Data MDM Solutions and IBM
Kingland Systems continues to innovate its 360 Data line of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions with IBM, highlighted by an achievement last week at IBM’s Information On Demand 2010 conference in Las Vegas. Kingland’s premier financial services MDM platform, 360 Data Enterprise Hub, was one of three finalists out of more than 1,100 information management…
SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed Publish Consultation Paper on Reference Markets
SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed have published their questionnaire to consult with market participants and regulators on the significance of reference markets for securities and the rules which should govern them. All stakeholders are invited to give their valuable input until 30 November 2010. Link: http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/download/participants/consultation.pdf The issues raised can broadly be split into…
Information Mosaic’s O’Donnell Talks up ING’s Deployment of IMConnecting
Information Mosaic used this year’s Sibos as the platform to launch its new IMConnecting solution, which purports to provide a next gen interface to the post-trade environment for front office users and clients with its handheld device compatibility. Custody bank ING is the first to implement the solution in beta form and will install it…