A-Team Insight Blogs The latest content from across the platform
New York Data Management Summit: Mapping Developments in Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture for data management is moving on, leaving behind traditional enterprise data warehouses and embracing the potential of semantic data models, decoupling systems, building on open source platforms, and deploying hybrid solutions. The limitations of existing architectures for data management and the possibilities of emerging ideas were discussed at the fall A-Team Group Data…
New York Data Management Summit: Emerging Data Management Models Could Solve Quality and Cost Problems
New commercial models for enterprise and reference data management differ significantly from those already installed in financial institutions and may be the solution to ongoing problems including reducing costs, improving data quality and providing scale to support increasing data volumes – but as yet they have not been widely accepted and proven in the market….
AIM Software Survey Outlines Pain Points and Planned Investments in Reference Data Management
A shortfall in budgets and an excess of regulations are financial institutions’ biggest reference data management challenges and they are not likely to ease with any speed as firms tackle ongoing needs to increase efficiency, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and improve data governance and risk management. AIM Software’s ninth global reference data management survey,…
New York Data Management Summit: Proving the Potential of Utility Solutions for Reference Data Management
Reference data utilities can improve data accuracy, completeness and timeliness, reduce financial firms’ data management costs, and support regulatory compliance – but to be successful they need to mutualise rather than outsource processes and offer flexible data consumption. Presenting a keynote entitled ‘Mutualising Data Governance and Regulatory Compliance Through the Use of a Utilty’ at…
Markit | Genpact KYC Services Builds Out Offer and Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec Jon May as CEO
Markit | Genpact KYC Services has marked six months of operation with the appointment of former Goldman Sachs executive Jon May as CEO, the registration of more than 600 buy-side firms and corporations with its Know Your Customer (KYC) service, and the development of workflows that allow large asset managers operating thousands of funds to…
London Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Solvency II Compliance
Solvency II has been some time in the making, but as deadlines loom for interim requirements in 2015 and full implementation in January 2016, the data management challenges of the regulation must be tackled not only by firms in the insurance industry, which Solvency II seeks to regulate, but also by third-party administrators and asset…
London Data Management Summit: Getting to Grips with Entity Data
Entity data management has moved up the agenda over the past year, driven by regulatory requirements, the establishment of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and, in some cases, a desire to centralise and provide enterprise-wide access to entity data. A-Team Group’s London Data Management Summit discussed the progress of entity data management, as well as…
DataStax and Azul Partnership Delivers High-Performance Enterprise Version of Cassandra
DataStax, provider of an enterprise version of the Apache Cassandra distributed database, has partnered with Azul Systems, provider of the Zing Java virtual machine (JVM). The partnership allows DataStax to provide its customers with a combined technology platform on which to build low-latency data management solutions for applications that require increasing amounts of in-memory data…
SunGard Accelerates Adaptiv Analytics with GPU Technology
SunGard has accelerated the speed of calculations within its Adaptiv Analytics solution by adding an underlying hardware layer of graphical and computer processing units to the software. The hardware, used in conjunction with the software, is designed to provide rapid credit risk analytics that can support growing demand for scenario-based risk and sensitivity analysis, as…
AIM Acquisition of Joss Technology Adds Entity Data Application and US Presence
AIM Software’s acquisition of Joss Technology will add an entity data business application to AIM’s Gain data management platform, as well as US based employees and customers who will help to power the company’s ‘go west’ strategy. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but once it is complete, Joss Technology will be…