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Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: It’s Data Management, Jim, but Not as We Know It

Markit’s decision to use Livingstone’s software asset management (SAM) services, announced last week, is the company’s first visible deal in our space since Dan Simpson, former head of CADIS Software, left his company’s acquirer to become Livingstone’s CEO some 10 months ago. Because it’s Markit, we at Data Management Review find the deal interesting. But…

ModelDrivers Outlines the Potential of Data Point Modelling to Meet Regulatory Demands

ModelDrivers is piloting its ModelDR data point modelling solution at a large US headquartered investment bank that initially intends to use the software to support MiFID II reporting. To date, the European Banking Authority (EBA) is the only major financial services organisation that has adopted data point modelling – the authority’s Common Reporting and Financial…

Exchange Data International Adds ISO 15022 Compliant Corporate Actions Feed

Exchange Data International (EDI) has introduced a fixed income corporate actions service based on the ISO 15022 messaging standard. The service is a response to customer interest in moving away from corporate actions services based on proprietary formats and towards services that are compliant with the ISO 15022 standard. The fixed income ISO 15022 feed…

The Train on Platform MiFID 2 is Delayed by One Year

This is a contributed article from Steve Grob, Director of Group Strategy, Fidessa. Not surprising to see that it now looks odds-on that we’ll get a full one year delay on the implementation of MiFID 2. This will embarrass the politicians who don’t want to be seen as going soft on those “wreckless” bankers, but…

Calypso Adds Portfolio and Risk Management Functionality to Trading Platform

Calypso Technology has extended its trading and collateral optimisation platform with the integration of real-time portfolio and risk management functionality. The integration aims to support growing numbers of investment managers trading both derivatives and cash securities. The complete solution, Portfolio Workstation, builds on existing Calypso capabilities in areas such as pricing and position keeping to…

A-Team Webinar Considers Collaborative Solutions for Client Onboarding

Collaborative industry solutions for client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes promise banks significant benefits in terms of reduced cost and increased efficiency, but the practical implementation of these types of solutions is equally challenging in an environment where banks are at different stages of process automation and manage both similar and different customer…

Thomson Reuters Details Build Out of Org ID Managed Service for KYC

Thomson Reuters is building out its Org ID Know Your Customer (KYC) managed service – winner of this year’s A-Team Award for Best KYC & Client On-Boarding Solution – with the addition of nearly 2,000 entity records a month, plans for geographic expansion, and expectations of signing an additional six deals for the service in…

Cattolica Assicurazioni Implements GoldenSource Solution to Support Solvency II Compliance

Italian asset manager Cattolica Assicurazioni is implementing GoldenSource’s Market Data Solution as part of a Solvency II project that aims to meet the regulation’s January 1st 2016 compliance deadline. The asset manager selected the GoldenSource solution ahead of other contenders for the project on the basis of is completeness, ease of use by non-technical staff,…

Alacra Plans Q1 2016 Release of Full-Scale Resolve Service

Alacra is piloting a full-scale version of its Resolve matching and cross-referencing service for publicly available entity identifiers, following the introduction of an entry level version of the service back in August. While the entry level version of Resolve allows searches of close to 5 million legal entities in the Alacra Legal Entity Directory on…

Avox Sets Out Development Plans for 2016

Avox has set out its development plans for 2016, including the introduction of a sanctions screening service, support for MiFID II compliance and enhancements to its managed and Know Your Customer (KYC) services. The company, a specialist in entity data services, will also work with its parent DTCC and other subsidiaries, such as Clarient and…