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Etrali Develops Solution for Market Communication Requirements of MiFID II
Financial firms subject to MiFID II must tackle the problem of recording, retaining and providing access to market communications in order to comply with the regulation’s data retention requirements and satisfy any increased regulatory scrutiny of recorded calls and emails. Robert Powell, global head of compliance and product management at Etrali Trading Solutions, says many…
Tom Dalglish Joins SmartStream
Tom Dalglish has moved on from iGate Global Solutions to join SmartStream Technologies, where he takes the title of head of transformation services. In this role, Dalglish will use his reference data management expertise to manage transformation projects for post-trade processing and data management services for global clients. His initial responsibility will be to manage…
Opinion: “Big Data” Analytics will Play an Important Role in the Fight Against Payments Fraud
By Mike Urban, Director, Financial Crime Risk Management, Fiserv Fighting payments fraud has become one of the biggest challenges for financial organisations across the globe. In recent years there has been an explosion in both access channels and real-time payment methods meaning that monitoring financial transactions and ensuring that they are secure and legitimate has…
LIBOR: Could We Have Seen it Coming?
The repercussions of the LIBOR price fixing scandal are likely to run and run. We now know that from around 2005 onwards a number of banks were attempting to manipulate rates. Over $6 billion has already been levied in fines, and with $300 trillion-worth of contracts pegged to this all-important benchmark, the figure could well…
Eagle Investment Systems Supports Sovereign Wealth Funds
Eagle Investment Systems is working on enterprise data management (EDM) projects with an increasing number of sovereign wealth funds across Asia, the Middle East and South Africa as they recognise the need to invest in financial technology and operate along similar lines to large institutional asset managers. The drivers behind technology investment include the need…
Adaptive Combines Software AG Solutions to Deliver Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Adaptive Consulting has extended its relationship with Software AG to become a strategic partner working across the software company’s in-memory data management, streaming analytics, complex event processing (CEP) and universal messaging solutions. The consultancy has implemented Software AG’s messaging solution in global banks for a few years and is now working with two of the…
SunGard Measures the Gap Between Data Reporting and Business Intelligence
The gap between financial data reporting and business intelligence has still to be closed at many firms as they struggle to move away from after-the-fact reporting and adopt proactive and investigative reporting strategies. The gap is often exacerbated by the use of multiple systems, but it can be narrowed by improving data management, automating reporting…
DTCC Pushes Forward with Clarient Client Reference Data Utility
DTCC is coming closer to delivering the client data and documentation utility it described last year as it tests the first release of Clarient Entity Hub ahead of general availability in the fourth quarter of this year. The company signed a memorandum of understanding to design and develop a utility that would support client on-boarding…
LEI Foundation Fixes Fees to be Paid by LOUs to Fund Global LEI System
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has fixed the licence fee that Local Operating Units (LOUs) must pay to the foundation for each LEI they issue at $20 a year. It has also introduced a member credit fee of $10 per LEI that LOUs must pay to the foundation to supplement funding of initial…
EMIR Reporting Continues to Pose Data Management Challenge
The reporting requirements of European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) continue to challenge financial institutions six months after they came into force and ahead of regulatory intent to fine firms that fail to report correctly under the regulation. Industry estimates suggest that, to date, only 1% of trades have been correctly matched under EMIR due to…