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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…
People Moves: Alacra, Capco, BGC Partners, Thomson Reuters and more
Some industry people moves, courtesy of Áine Hall at Hawk Search Alacra announced three new additions to its management team, with the appointments of Alan Samuels, Kelvin Dickenson and Kevin Kollar. (Alacra press release.) Capco announced the appointment of Jonathan Rose as a partner in their UK team. (Capco press release.) BGC Partners announced the…
A-Team Webinar Details the Data Management Implications of Solvency II
Solvency II presents major data management challenges for insurance firms, asset managers, their custodians and fund administrators, but compliance can provide opportunities to optimise portfolios, reduce capital holdings and build data architectures that can satisfy not only Solvency II, but also other incoming regulations. The data management implications of Solvency II were discussed recently during…
Goldman Sachs’ Deployment of the Kensho Platform Signals Growing Maturity of Big Data Analytics
Goldman Sachs’ deployment of Kensho’s big data analytics and its investment in the company reflect growing commercial availability of big data analytics solutions and their use in financial services firms to automate analysts’ tasks and support better and faster decision making based on structured and unstructured big data. Kensho, a start-up out of MIT and…
Silverfinch Allies with Fundsquare to Promote Adoption of Solvency II Look-Through Solution
Silverfinch, a business within the MoneyMate Group, has tied up with Fundsquare to push its Solvency II look-through data utility further into the European market. Fundsquare, a data utility set up last year by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to support cross-border distribution of investment funds, has a larger European footprint than Silverfinch and will make…
SunGard Details Cost and Compliance Issues of BCBS 239
The Basel Committee regulation BCBS 239 could cost the financial services industry $1.5 billion to $2 billion a year as firms remodel their IT architectures to meet the demands of the regulation’s 11 principles – but while the cost of compliance is high, the regulation is a game changer and could improve firms’ profitability. The…