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Eagle Investment Systems Sets Out Growth Plans
Eagle Investment Systems, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, is planning to build out its Access cloud technology platform with the addition of data centres hosting the solution in Europe and Asia Pacific to an existing data centre in the US. The company expects to open a European facility, most probably outside London, in June 2015…
S&P Capital IQ Stands Ready to Fulfil Regulatory Oversight Committee Requirement for LEI Hierarchy Data
S&P Capital IQ is ready to meet the data hierarchy requirements for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that are expected to be set out by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global LEI System towards the end of this year. The company’s offer is based on existing products and can extend beyond LEI hierarchy data…
Danske Capital Implements AIM Software’s GAIN Applications
Danske Capital, the asset and fund management business of Danske Bank Group, is planning to implement AIM Software’s Gain enterprise data management applications to improve data quality in support of its ‘fit for purpose’ strategy. The company was looking for a solution that would discover and resolve data issues resulting from fragmented and incomplete data…
Opinion: What Every Global Bank Should Know About Emerging KYC Solutions
Banks must navigate the maze of regulations or face costly fines. Lee Forsyth, Global Lead KYC Consultant at Thomson Reuters, explains there’s a way through with new solutions. No doubt you have noticed our industry is swimming in acronyms: AML, FATCA, UBO, FATF, KYC. This jumbled alphabet mash-up is the perfect symbol of the complex…
Opinion: Chief Data Officers – The Case for the Defence
A large number of financial institutions (FIs) have appointed chief data officers (CDOs) over the past couple of years. I know a few of them and while they come from a wide variety of backgrounds—some technical, some business, some ‘data geek’—they share a common belief that an organization’s data is one of its most important…
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…