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TMX Atrium Adopts NPL Time to Offer Accurate Time Stamp Service
TMX Atrium has signed an agreement with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) to distribute NPL Time, a certified and precise time signal that is directly traceable to Coordinated Universal Time and can be used by TMX Atrium customers for regulatory compliance and audit purposes. TMX Atrium’s adoption of the NPL Time service is designed…
First Derivatives Plans Significant Investment in Kx Systems following Acquisition of Majority Shareholding
First Derivatives’ acquisition of a majority shareholding in Kx Systems gives the company ownership of the kdb+ technology stack, access to over 100 Kx customers and a business unit that is expected to be earnings enhancing in the current financial year. First Derivatives, a Newry-based provider of software and consulting services to the financial services…
Unigestion Selects AIM Software’s GAIN for Enterprise Data Management
Unigestion, a Geneva headquartered asset manager, has selected AIM Software’s GAIN enterprise data management (EDM) platform and business applications to provide an integrated front-to-back-office data management and operations solution. The selection of GAIN plays into the asset manager’s recent decision to implement SimCorp’s Dimension, an investment management platform that has already been integrated with GAIN…
Xignite Teams Up With FactSet to Deliver Global View of Fundamental Data
Xignite is closing a gap in its fundamental data offering by adding a subset of FactSet’s Fundamentals database to its cloud-based market data platform. The company already provides fundamental data for the US and Canadian markets, and will use the FactSet data to extend coverage and provide a global view of all major markets, including…
Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of BCBS 239
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation BCBS 239 presents a significant data management challenge for banks, but it also offers opportunities for those that reach compliance. Moderating a panel discussion on risk data aggregation under BCBS 239 at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in London, Dennis Slattery, CEO of EDMWorks, set the scene noting…
Charles River Adds Thomson Reuters Pricing & Reference Data to its Managed Data Service?
Charles River, an enterprise-wide, front- and middle-office investment management solution provider, has enhanced its Managed Data Service with the addition of Thomson Reuters pricing and reference data. This is the latest in a series of continued enhancements to the Charles River Data Service which provides benchmark, reference and issuer data, real-time pricing and new security…
Data Management Summit: Trending Technologies
State-of-the-art technologies such as hardware acceleration and in-memory databases increase processing speeds and support high performance analytics, making them first choice for some, but not all, trading environments. Moderating debate about the promise of big data and high performance analytics technologies at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London, A-Team chief content officer Andrew…
Data Management Summit Keynote: Enterprise Data Governance
Data governance is less about data and more about trust, trust between people and trusted information that can open up business opportunities for financial services firms and deliver benefits to customers and shareholders. Presenting a keynote at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London, Lorraine Waters, deputy group chief data officer at HSBC, outlined…
Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Rewards of KYC Compliance
Financial firms are investing significant sums to meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements, but there are rewards beyond regulatory compliance for those that take a centralised approach to collecting and managing client data and documentation. Addressing the data management challenges of KYC and client on-boarding at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in London, A-Team chief…
Standard Bank South Africa Implements Eagle Solutions
Standard Bank South Africa is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ accounting and enterprise data management solutions across its private client business. The solutions will be hosted on Eagle’s Access private cloud and will support the bank as it centralises operations and moves towards a single record of data. The bank is replacing legacy systems with the…