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GoldenSource’s Vanlint Elaborates on Heightened Focus on Risk Data Management

EDM vendor GoldenSource’s recent risk data management focused launch is reflective of the requirement in the market for increased transparency around the data used to make risk management decisions, explains Neill Vanlint, managing director of Europe and Asia at the vendor. Regulatory developments such as Basel III and Solvency II are driving firms to adopt…

Datanomic Set to Dominate AsiaPac Risk and Compliance Screening Market with Comprehensive Japanese and Chinese Text Matching

Risk and compliance screening and enterprise data management specialist, Datanomic, today announced its intent to dominate the AsiaPac market with the enhancement of transliteration capabilities for its dn:Director for Sanctions & PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) Screening solution through an extended partnership with the CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI), one of the world’s leading providers of Chinese,…

Kingland Continues Innovation with 360 Data MDM Solutions and IBM

Kingland Systems continues to innovate its 360 Data line of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions with IBM, highlighted by an achievement last week at IBM’s Information On Demand 2010 conference in Las Vegas. Kingland’s premier financial services MDM platform, 360 Data Enterprise Hub, was one of three finalists out of more than 1,100 information management…

SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed Publish Consultation Paper on Reference Markets

SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Exfeed have published their questionnaire to consult with market participants and regulators on the significance of reference markets for securities and the rules which should govern them. All stakeholders are invited to give their valuable input until 30 November 2010. Link: http://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/download/participants/consultation.pdf The issues raised can broadly be split into…

Information Mosaic’s O’Donnell Talks up ING’s Deployment of IMConnecting

Information Mosaic used this year’s Sibos as the platform to launch its new IMConnecting solution, which purports to provide a next gen interface to the post-trade environment for front office users and clients with its handheld device compatibility. Custody bank ING is the first to implement the solution in beta form and will install it…

Principia Exposes Gaps in Structured Finance Investors’ Risk Oversight as ABS and MBS Trading Increases

Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance investments, today announced the findings of its structured finance investor due diligence survey. The results highlight increasing investor and issuer confidence in securitisation as an asset class, with 60% of investors stating they would increase their activity within the next 12 months….

SuperDerivatives and Algorithmics to Deliver Exceptional Risk Management Across OTC Derivatives to the Buy and Sell Side

SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark and multi asset front office system, has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Algorithmics, a provider of risk solutions, to offer banks, funds and asset managers a comprehensive solution to improve their risk management capabilities. The collaboration, which is subject to final contract, includes two elements: integrated data for…

Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Introduces TrilliumApps Online Applications Library

Trillium Software officially introduced today its TrilliumApps online business rules and applications library, a web-based collection of pre-developed information quality rules, processes and full workflows that can be easily downloaded at no cost and snapped into existing Trillium Software System environments. TrilliumApps has been built leveraging the broad and deep experience of Trillium Software consultants…

BarCap’s Data Quality Head Nagle to Join Deutsche Bank Later This Month

Current global head of data quality at Barclays Capital Llew Nagle is soon to depart for data pastures new, when he joins Deutsche Bank later this month in a similar role. Nagle has been with BarCap since 2001 and earlier this year was promoted to the brand new role of head of data quality. Over…

iPads, Apps and Tweets, Oh My!

One of the most notable things about this year’s Sibos, on both the exhibition floor and in the sessions, was the prevalence of mobile technology. Many of the vendors and banks in attendance were touting their new apps to bring the middle and back office into the 21st century. Whether it was the ability to…