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Intelligent Trading Summit Discusses Aspects of Optimal Performance
Regulation, optimal execution, intelligent trading solutions, high performance technologies and emerging capabilities including machine learning, sentiment analysis and predictive analytics were at the top of the agenda at A-Team Group’s Intelligent Trading Summit in New York City. Setting the scene for the summit, keynotes from Kevin O’Hara, senior advisor to the National Stock Exchange, and…
Interactive Data Integrates APEX with Asset Control EDM Platform
Interactive Data is working with a number of enterprise data management (EDM) vendors to integrate its APEX pricing and reference data delivery platform with EDM solutions. The first integration is with Asset Control’s AC Plus platform. The integration of APEX and AC Plus uses an APEX specific connector that adds to Asset Control’s suite of…
A-Team Webinar Discusses the SmartStream RDU With its Three Founding Banks
The reference data utility model is gaining traction with some firms joining SmartStream’s Reference Data Utility (RDU) and others building their own internal solutions, but whatever the selected solution, the overarching interest is in improving data quality and reducing the cost of data management. The establishment and development of the SmartStream RDU by SmartStream and…
Mondrian Investment Partners Uses Curium to Improve Data Control and Quality
Mondrian Investment Partners has renewed its data management environment with the implementation of Curium Data Systems’ platform. The implementation took three months from initiation to go live early this year and provides Mondrian with control of its security master process and data quality management within its investment operations. The investment manager previously worked with an…
A-Team Data Management Summit Outlines Elements of Optimal Data Management
Organising for optimal data management, transformation challenges, operational models, data quality, emerging technologies, data governance and, of course, regulation were top agenda items at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York City. The first keynote speaker, David Luria, vice president, front office data intelligence programs at T. Rowe Price, set the scene for…
Bloomberg Introduces Entity Exchange for KYC and Client Onboarding
Bloomberg has released Entity Exchange, a web-based platform designed to speed up onboarding on the buy side and help banks and brokers on the sell side meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. The platform enables hedge funds to provide entity data and documentation to their trading counterparties. It is supported by Bloomberg’s data intelligence team…
BCBS 239, Solvency II and Beyond: Current status and the next game changers – London Seminar June 2nd
BCBS 239 and Solvency II have driven the Data Governance Agenda for banks and investment firms. Both were enacted on 1st January and many firms are being assessed right now. At the EDMworks Data Practitioner Network on 2nd June we review the current state of the assessment process based on feedback from leading banks. Dennis…
Markit Mixes Old and New to Deliver FRTB Compliance Solution
Markit is pulling together existing products and new developments to deliver a compliance solution for the market risk capital requirements of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), which comes into force in 2019. The solution is based on a modular platform, allowing banks to supplement existing infrastructure and processes as needed, and is…
Anadolubank Nederland Selects AxiomSL for XBRL Regulatory Reporting
Anadolubank Nederland has selected AxiomSL’s XBRL solution to deliver regulatory reports to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). While most European central banks mandated use of XBRL for reporting in line with European Banking Authority (EBA) requirements in 2014 and 2015, DNB came late to the game, requiring banks within its scope to report using XBRL this…
FXecosystem Deploys Metamako Devices to Improve Network Control and Lower Latency
FXecosystem, a provider of outsourced connectivity services for the foreign exchange and fixed income markets, has embedded Metamako MetaConnect switches in its network to provide advanced control and visibility, as well as support for dynamic patching. The Metamako devices underpin FXecosystem’s FXeco-eye real-time network and flow monitoring and data visualisation tool, giving users of the…