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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Time to Mark to Markit?
We may have been waiting, watching for some time, and that time has now come: Markit has registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. No date, no share price. But still a momentous occasion for our marketplace, and a significant milestone for a company that opened its doors in…
A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into the Data Management Challenges of FATCA
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) comes into effect on 1 July 2014 and presents, perhaps, the most challenging data management issues that financial institutions will face this year. The volume of data is one problem, the complexity of requirements is another, and the whole is not helped by recent changes to FATCA rules…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s All About the People
Social media is a wonderful thing. It’s how I know that an industry friend is gallivanting around Australia. Or making an intriguing connection with another industry friend. Or has got a new job. This week, LinkedIn yielded a couple of interesting snippets. As you’ll have seen, Kate Toumazi has moved to the new role of…
LuxCSD Becomes a pre-Local Operating Unit in the Global LEI System
LuxCSD, a central securities depository jointly owned by the Central Bank of Luxembourg and Clearstream International, has become Luxembourg’s pre-Local Operating Unit (LOU) which, with the help of DTCC, will issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) within the Global LEI System. LuxCSD is sponsored as a pre-LOU by the Central Bank of Luxembourg and has been…
Swift Adds Compliance Analytics Tool for Network Traffic Data
Swift has extended its Compliance Services portfolio with the addition of Compliance Analytics, a business intelligence tool that aggregates Swift network data to help banks visualise their global transaction flows and identify any unexpected activities. Swift touched on the analytics tool back in January when it discussed its intention to build a portfolio of compliance…
Xenomorph Refines TimeScape Functionality with Data Validation Dashboard
Xenomorph continues to refine its TimeScape data management and analytics platform with a data validation dashboard designed to give users the benefits of better workflow control and exceptions handling, higher quality data and a data management solution based on familiar Microsoft technologies. The company has developed the TimeScape Data Validation Dashboard with two banking clients…
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Risk and Reward in An Open Source World
I just read the latest from Michael Lewis, and while I can’t say I’m fully in agreement with regard to his “rigged market” position, I did find Flash Boys to be a pretty good basic description of high frequency trading and the technologies that underpin it. It was not, however, the main HFT focus that…
Kate Toumazi Switches Role to Become Head of Risk and Data Services at Thomson Reuters
Kate Toumazi has moved from the role of global head of front office in the Enterprise Content leadership team at Thomson Reuters to take up the new role of global head of risk and data services in the Pricing and Reference Services leadership team within the company’s risk division. The new role has been designed…
Opinion: From Lehman to Amazon – Rethinking Financial Data Management
By Richard Petti, CEO, Asset Control The tide of regulation is rising inexorably, swamping the financial services sector with ever more prescriptive disclosure requirements; from Dodd-Frank to Basel III and Solvency II, the regulatory response to the enduring financial crisis continues to evolve but the direction of change is constant. It’s widely acknowledged that the…
Andbank Selects AIM’s Gain Portfolio Pricing Data Management Application
AIM Software’s business approach to data management has been endorsed by Andbank, a private bank based in Andorra that has gone live with the company’s Gain Portfolio Pricing data management application. The AIM solution was chosen following a comprehensive evaluation and selection process and is being used to service the bank’s primary private banking and…