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EDM Council Plans January Release of Version 1.0 of its Data Management Capability Model
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council will release version 1.0 of its Data Management Capability Model (DCAM) on January 15, 2015. The model defines the scope of capabilities needed to establish, enable and sustain a mature data management discipline, including strategy, organisational structure, technology architecture and operational best practices. The council’s DCAM model builds on…
A-Team Webinar Offers Solutions to the Data Management Problems of FATCA
The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) raises significant data management challenges, but it is only one of a number of tax avoidance schemes that are emerging, making a strategic rather than tactical approach the best way to achieve compliance. The challenges of FATCA were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar entitled ‘How…
A-Team Webinar Discusses the Next Frontier of Customer Due Diligence
Customer onboarding processes are often complex and burdensome, leading to poor customer service despite significant investment and costly penalties resulting from non-compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations. These problems can damage financial firms’ customer relationships, reputations and ongoing business, but they are not insurmountable if collaborative technology approaches are embraced…
Regulatory DataCorp Builds Up Risk and Compliance Business in Europe
Regulatory DataCorp (RDC), a provider of governance, risk and compliance solutions, has built up its European business to include over 50 global banking institutions, insurance firms, corporates and financial technology providers since it established a London office in May 2014. Set up in 2002 in the US by 20 leading financial institutions, RDC provides industries…
Chris Pickles Takes a Leading Role in Bloomberg’s FIGI Campaign
Bloomberg is continuing its campaign to make the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI), formerly the Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID), the world’s primary security identifier with plans to push the FIGI through the ISO standardisation process and showcase organisations benefitting from the use of the identifier. The campaign is being led by Chris Pickles, former head…
A-Team Webinar Considers the Practicalities of Implementing the LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has come a long way since it was introduced to financial markets by the Financial Stability Board back in June 2012, but it is far from becoming a primary entity identifier and needs further development to fulfill its initial purpose of providing a means to monitor systemic risk. The extent…
Opinion: How Many ‘R’s Are There in Financial Services Regulation?
By Alex Foster, Global Head of Strategy & Business Development – BT Financial Technology Services Throughout history, the letter ‘R’ has represented a succession of important codes of conduct. We have the famous ‘three ‘R’s of education’: reading, writing, and arithmetic, which can be traced back as early as 401 AD from Saint Augustine’s The…
AxiomSL Adds A Solution for Smart Cube Compliance to its Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL has stepped into the market with a solution for Austrian Smart Cube reporting, which comes into play next year. The solution is built on the same platform as AxiomSL’s other regulatory reporting products, providing data consistency across reports and the reduced complexity and costs of a single platform approach. Smart Cube reporting, which is…
AIM Software Automates Data Prep for Quant Modelling with Gain Quant DB
AIM Software has secured an initial three customers for it Gain Quant DB application that was originally designed to help its first customer automate data preparation for quant modelling. This customer, a large asset manager, is in production with the solution, while the second will be in production in the first quarter of next year…
SS&C Plans to Enhance Acquired DST Global products Anova and HiPortfolio
SS&C Technologies’ acquisition of DST Global Solutions adds the latter’s Anova and HiPortfolio products to the SS&C portfolio. The Anova data management and analytics platform provides a new market dimension for SS&C and complements the company’s Sylvan performance and performance attribution solution. The HiPortfolio investment and fund accounting platform joins the Portia and Pacer solutions…