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A-Team Publishes BCBS 239 Handbook
As the January 1, 2016 compliance deadline for BCBS 239 approaches, A-Team Group has published a BCBS 239 Handbook dedicated to the regulation and designed to help data management and data governance practitioners implement its 14 principles successfully. The regulation embodies the post-financial crisis need for effective and efficient risk data aggregation and reporting across…
AxiomSL Plans Software-As-A-Service Version of its Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL is planning to introduce a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its regulatory reporting and risk management platform next year with a view to supporting asset managers and hedge funds that do not have sufficient IT resources to deploy the platform in-house. The SaaS solution will offer these types of firms an additional option on access…
Exchanges Increase Market Data Revenue at Greater Rate than Traditional Vendors
The acquisition of Interactive Data (IDC) by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will make ICE the third largest market data vendor after Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. It will also increase exchanges’ market data revenue, which in 2014 rose 12.05% to $3.26 billion. In the same period, traditional data vendors grew market data revenue by 4.07% to close…
Smart Order Routers: Transparency Clashes with Broker Proprietary Model
How do you strike a balance between providing transparency into smart order routing so that buy-side firms can understand how their orders are routed and can meet their best execution obligations, whilst protecting the intellectual property of the sell side firms providing order routing services? That’s a question that traders, asset managers and smart order…
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: Looking Under the Sentiment Analysis Hood
Our own sentiment analysis here at Intelligent Trading Technology is that sentiment analysis’ star is rising. A few weeks back, I chimed in on the progress this segment of our market has made as evidenced by the sophistication and enthusiasm on show by both presenters and audience members at a recent Bloomberg-hosted seminar on machine…
Smart Machines: A $10 Trillion Capacity Windfall or a $10 Trillion Jobs Deficit?
By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion Predictable, monotonous data work costs the United States, Canada and Europe over $10 trillion of human intelligence each year, and that number is growing. You know the kind of work: a data analyst sitting in front of two screens, one flashing an endless stream of unstructured content, the…
The Challenges and Opportunities of Smart Data Governance Strategies
The development of data governance strategies is being driven by regulation, but a smart strategy can deliver far more than regulatory compliance and give financial firms the ability to improve their customer relationships and increase profitability. With data governance at the top of the agenda at many banks, its challenges and opportunities will be discussed…
A Strategic Approach to BCBS 239 Implements Best Practice Data Management and Promises Business Benefits
BCBS 239 compliance is a challenge and its January 1, 2016 deadline for global systemically important banks is fast approaching, but successful implementation of the regulation’s principles, particularly those covering risk data aggregation, can deliver significant business opportunities. These include cost and capital savings, data rationalisation, improved data quality and links between datasets that have…
Interactive Data to be Acquired by Intercontinental Exchange for $5.2 billion
After much debate about the future of data vendor Interactive Data, it has emerged that Intercontinental Exchange has bought the company from its private equity backers for $5.2 billion. The backers Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus originally purchased the company for $3.4 billion in 2010. The deal ends over a year of speculation about when…
Finding a Balance Between Standards and Flexibility in Data Architecture
The integration of standards and flexibility into data architecture is an ongoing challenge for financial firms that must not only improve operational efficiency, but also sustain adaptability to support business and regulatory change. Both are important, but potentially opposed to each other, begging the question of how best to find an optimal balance between standards…