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Banks Being Pushed Towards a More Formalised Approach to Risk Management, Say Barclays’ Hayward and BNP Paribas’ Carette
The desire to restore trust and confidence in the market has become the driving force behind much of the investment that has gone into risk management systems, according to Bill Hayward, director of regulatory risk and group risk for Barclays Bank. Speaking at last week’s SAS user conference in Antwerp, Hayward joined Ivan Carette, director…
S&P’s Pagliaro Elaborates on the Details of its Valuations and Risk Partnership with Sapient
Earlier this month, Sapient Global Markets and Standard and Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies (S&P VRS) signed a partnership agreement to provide their respective client bases with greater data and risk and pricing analysis capabilities for structured finance products. Reference Data Review speaks to David Pagliaro, senior director at Structured Finance Solutions for S&P VRS, about what…
Kinetic Partners Hire Kevin Huby
Kevin Huby has been appointed a Member at Kinetic Partners to focus on building the firm’s risk management and remediation services. This new appointment will complement and significantly strengthen Kinetic Partners’ highly regarded regulation and compliance service offering. Kevin joins Kinetic Partners from Ernst & Young, where he established and led a team focusing on…
Moody’s Analytics Introduces Sovereign Correlations to RiskFrontier 3.0
Moody’s Analytics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions, today announced the release of RiskFrontier 3.0, the latest version of its credit portfolio management and economic capital calculation solution. This release features a new sovereign risk correlation model that enables financial institutions to better quantify and manage the sovereign risk exposure in their portfolios. The…
EDM Council Plans Fee-based Data Quality Rulebook, Ramps up Semantics Proof of Concept Work
The EDM Council has this month indicated that it is considering a new fee-based service that would provide members with data quality rules that firms could embed in their quality review processes. The idea has gone to the association’s board for approval and if it receives the green light, will be discussed with the membership…
SIX Telekurs Provides French Taxation and Regulation Information
SIX Telekurs has expanded its compliance-related services with French tax and regulatory information for investors and companies with tax liabilities in France. This new service helps financial institutions with French clients or French assets to correctly prepare their accounts to effectively and efficiently process French tax and regulatory requirements. SIX Telekurs, a leading financial information…
Omgeo Launches New Omgeo ALERT Capabilities to Drive Settlement Instruction Data Quality
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the availability of new Omgeo ALERT functionality, SI Compliance Scan. Omgeo ALERT is the world’s largest and most compliant web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of settlement and account instructions (SI). With this new functionality, users can measure the quality of SI data by…
SunGard to Offer Same Day Securities Lending Data
SunGard is now offering same day securities lending data through SunGard’s Astec Analytics Lending Pit solution, helping customers improve price discovery, increase profitability and decrease risk. Broker-dealers and lending agents currently rely on data that is at least one to two days old, making it difficult to monitor the fast moving securities lending market or…
Six Industry Associations Raise Concerns About Privacy of SIFI Data, Ask for More Time for Input on Requirements
The criteria surrounding regulatory assessments for firms that are to be considered systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) have proved controversial over recent months, but the most recent industry furore seems to be about what happens to the data about these firms once it has been collected. This week, six industry associations wrote a letter to…
SAS’ Rogers Talks up the Data Detail Store Layer in its Risk Management Platform, Signals Imminent Capital Markets Focused Developments
Risk management solution provider SAS has this week launched the latest iteration of its risk management platform, which features a data integration layer that has been dubbed the SAS Detail Data Store (DDS) for Banking and aims to act as an intermediary between data warehouses and the risk analytics function. David Rogers, global product marketing…