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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…
Are These the Best Providers of Enterprise Data Management Platforms?
Do you think Goldensource is the best sell-side enterprise data management platform? Or Fidelity ActionsXchange is the best corporate actions processing platform? How about Wolters Kluwer as the best regulatory solutions provider? Or DTCC’s Avox as the best LEI data solution? These are some of the winners of last year’s Data Management Summit Awards. If…
Interactive Data Offers Compliance Solution for AIFMD
Interactive Data has introduced a compliance solution for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) that came into force this week, but compliance may not be plain sailing with the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) warning that implementation of the regulation is incomplete. Interactive Data has pulled together existing data and created new data required…
RiskFirst Builds Business in US with PFaroe Risk Analytics Platform
RiskFirst, a UK-based risk analytics provider, is building out its business in the US with the support of partner Winklevoss Technologies and early client wins with its PFaroe real-time, web-based valuation, analytics and reporting platform at Rocaton Investment Advisors and Nuveen Asset Management. The company, formerly known as PensionsFirst, introduced PFaroe in the UK market…