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Managing Data Technology Remains a Challenges at Enterprise Level, DMRAV Delegates Told

Proving return on investment (ROI) while attempting to take an incremental approach to enterprise data management projects remains a significant challenge for managers seeking sign-off for EDM projects, delegates at A-Team’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London heard. According to panellists on the event’s discussion on ‘Technology Challenges of Building an…

Sybase’s Grant Highlights the Need for More Data Creation at Source

Rather than relying on data from external sources, firms should instead aim to create it from source documents, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development director for financial services at risk management solution vendor Sybase, during this afternoon’s keynote speech. Speaking to attendees at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London,…

Collaboration is Key to Resolving Data Issues Raised by Regulation

Financial institutions must collaborate to meet incoming regulatory requirements that challenge enterprise data management (EDM), according to a panel of industry experts assessing the impact of regulations on data management at today’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations Conference in London. Chairing the panel, Reference Data Review set the scene of incoming regulations requiring…

On Demand Analytics Have Become Increasingly Important, Says Sybase’s Grant

Regulatory and business pressures are driving firms to invest in risk management functionality such as on demand analytics capabilities, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development manager for financial services at Sybase, during his keynote speech at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London. There has been a serious increase in…

SCOR Global Investments Selects Cadis to Optimise Operational Efficiency

SCOR Global Investments (SGI), the investment management company of the SCOR Group, a global reinsurance company headquartered in Paris, has selected Cadis to implement its data management strategy. SCOR’s investment portfolio amounted to EUR 12.1 billion in June 2011. Cadis will be taking in data from multiple sources including Bloomberg, Interactive Data and EFA-European Fund…

Data Integration and Emerging Technologies Offer Beneficial Opportunities

Data integration and the adoption of technologies including data location aware computation, in database analytics and event stream processing will improve analytics, reduce decision making time and, in turn, contribute to cutting the costs associated with duplicated data. Addressing the issue of integrating data for high compute enterprise analytics, a panel discussion at A-Team Group’s…

Q&A: Sidera Networks’ Maura Mahoney on Partnerships and New Data Centres

Barely a day goes by when there isn’t an announcement from one of several wide area connectivity players, which underpin the world of low-latency trading. Sidera Networks is one of those at the centre of the action, and IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Maura Mahoney, vice president for marketing and business development at the company, to…

Financial Intergroup’s Grody and BT’s Pickles Debate the LEI Issue

Following on from the questions about the legal entity identification (LEI) work going on as a part of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) efforts to determine a global standard that were raised by BT Global Banking & Financial Markets’ head of industry initiatives Chris Pickles last week,…

CME’s Aurora Co-Lo: Quick Facts

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange opened its new data centre – housing the Globex matching engine – in August, 2010. Now it’s planning to add co-location services, beginning January 29, 2012. Here’s some more information … – The data centre is located in Aurora, IL – 40 miles west of the city. – It is a…

Virginie’s Blog – Musical Chairs

It seems that 2011 has been another year filled with management shakeups, M&A activity and high profile exits and entrances within the vendor and practitioner communities. EDM solution vendors and data vendors in particular seem to have engaged in an ongoing game of musical chairs, not least of which has been the continued reshuffling at…