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Data Management Summit: Finding Solutions to the Data Management Problems of Client Onboarding and KYC
Increasing enforcement of Know Your Client (KYC) regulations and large fines for non-compliance are driving banks to review client onboarding processes and make changes that will not only help them meet regulatory requirements, but also improve the client experience, increase efficiency and reduce time to revenue. The data management challenges of client onboarding and KYC,…
CGS and Ipreo Extend Partnership to Streamline Identifier Issuance for new Securities in Equity and Fixed Income Markets
Cusip Global Services (CGS) and Ipreo are building out an existing relationship in the US municipal market to allow users of Ipreo’s security issuance software in global equity and fixed income markets to automatically submit requests for Cusip and ISIN identifiers through the company’s global cross-asset class book building system. Once created, the identifiers are…
Data Management Summit: Techniques and Technologies to Improve Data Quality
Data quality has become an imperative of data management, and while it is often difficult to achieve, improvements can be made to meet both business and regulatory requirements by implementing data governance policies as well as big data and artificial intelligence technologies. Andrew Delaney, chief content officer at A-Team Group, led discussion on data quality…
RiverRock Uses Horizon Automated Trader to Develop Algo Trading Strategies
Alternative investment firm RiverRock is up and running with Horizon Software’s Automated Trader solution that offers an out-of-the-box low latency and high frequency trading platform, as well as a flexible development environment that RiverRock is using to develop proprietary algorithmic trading strategies. The firm previously built algo trading strategies manually and went to market with…
Bloomberg Hires Richard Robinson to Promote the FIGI
Bloomberg has added former Wipro Technologies executive Richard Robinson to its open symbology team. Robinson was hired this month and will work alongside Chris Pickles to raise awareness of the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier, that Bloomberg is promoting as a global standard for securities identification. Robinson has stepped into…
Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Managed Services and Shared Utilities
Managed services and shared utilities designed for data management have the potential to cut banks’ costs, improve time to market and ease the burden of regulatory compliance, yet despite increasing maturity, these types of solutions face barriers to adoption including banks’ reluctance to change, concerns about relationships with data vendors and a lack of trust…
Julius Baer Extends its Use of AxiomSL’s Regulatory Reporting Platform
Swiss private banking group Julius Baer has extended its use of AxiomSL’s regulatory reporting platform to automate its group level and Swiss entity Basel III calculations and reporting, as well as its group level and Swiss entity statistical reporting. The banking group is already using the AxiomSL platform for financial reporting in Hong Kong and…
Data Management Summit Workshop: EDMworks Maps a Route to Successful Data Governance
Data governance is essential to managing not only regulatory requirements, but also client lifecycles, product innovation and cost and risk reduction programmes. While this is increasingly the case, developing data governance policies and processes that deliver tangible outcomes can be difficult. Dennis Slattery, CEO of EDMworks, set out the requirements for successful data governance –…
Data Management Summit: The Case for Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is evolving and becoming a realistic option for reference data management on a large scale, despite ongoing concerns about data security and control. The potential of reference data management in the cloud was discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London during a panel session led by A-Team chief content…
Quotix and Celer Technologies Implement Azul Systems’ Zing JVM
Azul Systems continues to build its direct and third-party customer bases with recent wins for its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) at Quotix, a provider of intelligent trade execution and management for the foreign exchange market, and Celer Technologies, a provider of adaptable high performance trading platforms. Quotix selected Zing to support and optimise the…