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Orc Sets Out Technology Integration Plans After Taking Ownership of Tbricks
Orc plans to integrate Tbricks’ technology, customers and employees into its derivatives trading technology business following an agreement by its owner Cidron Delfi Intressenter Holding, a company controlled by Nordic Capital, to acquire 100% of the shares in Tbricks. No financial details of the deal were disclosed, but it includes the transfer of ownership of…
New York Data Management Summit: Market Participants Argue the Case for LEI Hierarchy Data
Regulation, an entity-centric view of clients, and the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) are driving entity data management across capital markets, but the picture is not complete with market practitioners noting that the LEI needs hierarchy data to make it truly useful and a solution to the problem of monitoring systemic risk, for which it was…
New York Data Management Summit: Getting Ready for Basel Committee Regulation BCBS 239
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation BCBS 239 is a game changer, requiring banks to review and sometimes renew their data management processes in order to strengthen risk data aggregation capabilities and push risk reporting towards near real time. The challenges of BCBS 239 were the subject of a discussion session at A-Team Group’s…
New York Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Client Onboarding
The data management challenges of Know Your Customer (KYC) and client onboarding have been discussed for a couple of years, but as hefty fines are imposed for non-compliance and the struggle to reduce operational costs continues, financial institutions are reconsidering their approach and beginning to implement managed and shared service solutions. The challenges and opportunities…
New York Data Management Summit: Data Governance for Improved Data Quality
Regulatory requirements and internal needs for improved data quality are pushing data governance up the agenda at many financial institutions. In response, data governance policies are being implemented and firms are considering tools and techniques that could support and sustain better data quality. Approaches to data governance were discussed at A-Team Group’s recent New York…
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…
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…