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Reference Data Review on Securities Matching from the Sibos 2010 Opening Plenary
One of Swift’s biggest pushes for the securities sector as part of its new 2015 strategy is in the securities matching services space. During the Sibos 2010 opening plenary, Swift played the following video, demonstrating industry perspectives on this initiative. Reference Data Review elaborated on the utility versus competitive approach. Video of 16535038
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Systems
We’ve evolved: Spreadsheets are no longer the primary method for managing valuations pricing! So how are financial institutions managing pricing validation? Video 4 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 5 minutes 39 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Valuations Frequency
A look at the current frequency of valuing assets and why there is a trend toward increased frequency and a move towards intraday valuations. Video 3 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 6 minutes 21 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Vendor Requirements
What do institutions want from their vendors, and what do they think about how they are stacking up? A discussion of the survey scores, with focus on data quality and transparency. Video 2 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 7 minutes 33 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Drivers
Intro to the event and valuations performance benchmarking by moderator Angela Wilbraham, A-Team’s CEO, introduction to our panellists, and discussion about the drivers for valuations data spend that our buy-side institutions and securities services firms’ survey participants are responding to. In particular, a focus on the types of regulations and the type of impact they…
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…