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Opinion: ‘Global FATCA’ Clock Starts Ticking For Fund Management Industry, Warns Linedata
By Justin Hayes, Product Manager, Linedata Services When the FATCA returns and listing deadline of 1st June ends, financial institutions must quickly turn their attention to even more expensive and burdensome regulations. Justin Hayes, product manager at Linedata, the leading international software and solutions provider, outlines the impact the OECD Common Reporting Standards, dubbed ‘Global…
SimCorp and Thomson Reuters Enhance Users’ Access to Pricing, Reference Content?
SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, and Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the installation of a dedicated adapter enabling portfolio managers to access DataScope Select pricing and reference data through the SimCorp Dimension software platform….
Xenomorph Integrates Tableau to Extend Capability of TimeScape EDM+
Xenomorph has extended the capability of its TimeScape EDM+ enterprise data management solution through the integration of Tableau’s business intelligence and visualisation software. The integration is in line with the company’s strategy of adding tools for both data managers and business users to its TimeScape platform and follows the addition of native charting and heatmap…
eClerx and Comply Exchange Team Up to Offer Tax Reporting Solution
eClerx and Comply Exchange have teamed up to offer an end-to-end tax reporting solution that is designed to help financial institutions meet the requirements of regulations including the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) and the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard (CRS). The partnership brings together business process outsourcing provided by Mumbai based eClerx with tax…
A-Team Webinar Discusses Next Generation Enterprise Data Management
Technology options including cloud solutions, managed services and data utilities can take enterprise data management (EDM) to the next level and deliver business benefits, but there are challenges along the way as firms contend with legacy systems, increasing regulation and the ongoing divide between business and IT. The challenges and opportunities of emerging EDM solutions…
WorkFusion Hires Former Markit Exec Gautam Moorjani
WorkFusion, a specialist in machine learning and process automation, has hired Gautam Moorjani, former global head of reference data at Markit, as senior vice president of financial information. Moorjani joined WorkFusion in April after a stint of more than six years as a managing director with various roles at Markit. Moorjani joined Markit in 2008…
Mizuho International Goes Live with Second Phase of GoldenSource EDM Project
Mizuho International has gone live with the second phase of a project based on GoldenSource enterprise data management (EDM) solutions. The London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Securities, part of the Mizuho Financial Group, implemented GoldenSource’s entity master application, Customers & Counterparties, in January and recently went live with the company’s security master…
Alacra Adds GIINs and Cross-References Them to Other Identifiers in its Alacra Authority File Plus
Alacra has added Global Intermediary Identifier Numbers (GIINs) to its Alacra Authority File Plus (AAF+) with a view to helping firms match the identifiers to other public and vendor proprietary identifiers. GIINs are assigned by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to foreign financial institutions that must comply with tax reporting requirements under the US Foreign…
Ullink Builds Out its Connectivity and Trading Solutions Business under the Auspices of Interim CEO Bertrand Sciard
Ullink is building out its connectivity and electronic trading solutions business on the back of last year’s acquisition of NYFIX and its ability to meet growing market demand for managed services. At the helm is interim CEO Bertrand Sciard, who joined the company from Ullink’s private equity investor HgCapital when Ullink founder Laurent Useldinger stepped…
Rimes Buy-Side Survey Shows Room for Improvement in Data Quality and Governance
Data quality and data governance are the top data management priorities cited by buy-side firms in Rimes’ 2015 Buy-Side Survey. The survey respondents, particularly asset managers, also note that a lack of support for data governance and the limitations of existing operating models are hindering business agility and holding back strategy changes. Now in it…