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Data Management Summit – the Challenges of Corporate Actions
Automating corporate actions and reducing risk associated with manual intervention is proving difficult to pin down as the financial services industry struggles with a lack of standardisation, a growing volume and complexity of events, and different regional interpretations of events. A panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit grappled with the problems…
Interactive Data Adds Extensible Service for Financial Transaction Tax
Interactive Data has added a data service to support the identification of instruments liable for French and Italian financial transaction taxes (FTTs). The service shifts the burden of maintaining and updating lists of securities that fall within the scope of transaction tax in each jurisdiction from financial firms to Interactive Data, and is ready to…
Data Management Summit – Regulation is a Game Changer for Reference Data
Regulation has become a game-changer for many financial firms as regulators look beyond reports and demand access to detailed data that must be accurate and complete in a regime of zero regulatory tolerance. Introducing a panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit entitled Enterprise Data Management Business and Regulatory Drivers, A-Team Group…
Data Management Summit – The First Wave of the LEI System
Peter Warms, head of product development for global data and symbology at Bloomberg Data Solutions tackled issues around legal entity identifiers (LEIs) at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. He acknowledged the aim of a global LEI system to improve risk management and counterparty reporting, detailed industry challenges posed by the system and noted…
Data Management Summit – Emerging Technologies Deliver Business Benefits
Big data, cloud computing, the semantic web, big meta data, logical data models and in-memory analytics featured in a debate about emerging technologies for enterprise architecture at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. Colin Gibson, head of data architecture, markets and international banking at the Royal Bank of Scotland set the scene describing data…
Data Management Summit – Solving the Onshore or Offshore Conundrum
Christopher Bannocks, global head of reference data at Barclays Bank, detailed the pros and cons of offshoring and onshoring data management at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, concluding that value creation rather than cost arbitrage has become the decider on where work should be placed. He also fired a shot across the bows…
MapR Sets New MinuteSort Record; Grabs $30 Million
Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies recently announced that it had set a new world MinuteSort record using Google’s cloud-based compute offering. Following up on that, the company just raised a further $30 million in investment. The MinuteSort record saw MapR’s Hadoop offering sorting 15 billion 100-byte records (or 1.5 TB) in 60 seconds, using the Google…
Data Management Summit – Paolo Mittiga Maps the Road Ahead
Paolo Mittiga, data management domain partner at Wipro Technologies, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit (DMS) outlining a future of data management that will focus on the legal entity and real-time access to all data and be underpinned by technologies including semantic logic and dynamic ontology. Mittiga was welcomed…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Morning After the Night Before
Even if I say so myself, our Data Management Summit in London on Tuesday was a knockout event. It felt just right: all the right people were there, meeting with the right contacts. It had an intimate feel, even though it was heaving. And everyone learned a lot from the compelling presentations and discussions. We’ll…
Latency – All About A, B and C (for Compute)
I often describe latency as the time it takes to move data from point A to point B, and/or the time taken to process that data at points A and B. I think it’s true to say that the majority of content on this site is about moving data from A to B. But processing…