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Federated Approach to Data Management is Impractical, Say UBS’ Lux and Bachra
It is hard to develop good data governance practices with a federated approach to data management, according to Hans Lux, head of data architecture, and Jagtar Bachra, lead data analyst, both from UBS Global Asset Management. Speaking at this week’s TSAM in London, Lux and Bachra argued that a more traditional, centralised EDM approach would…
And Then One Day You Find … 10 Years Have Got Behind You
A-Team is 10 years old this month. Hurrah! Named for its founders – Angela Wilbraham, our CEO, and Andrew Delaney, our President and Editor-in-Chief – by the legendary John Whelan back in the Waters days. Enduring abuse of the choice ever since. But, no regrets. At our recent birthday party in London, we were touched…
JWG’s Di Giammarino Promotes European Input into US OFR Developments Via New GRIS Group
European firms need to collaborate with each other if they are to provide practical input to important regulatory driven standardisation efforts such as the development of a new legal entity identifier by the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), according to JWG’s CEO PJ Di Giammarino. In order to facilitate this transatlantic feedback process, JWG’s…
Broadridge Launches Mobile Voting on Major Mobile Platforms
Broadridge Financial Solutions announced today that Mobile ProxyVote.com is now live and available for proxy voting and compatible with an array of market-leading mobile devices, including Verizon’s new Apple iPhone 4, as well as the BlackBerry, Android, Microsoft , tablets and other smartphone platforms. “The availability of ProxyVote on thousands of mobile devices is in…
The Talk of TSAM
There’s nothing like a good bit of gossip and industry conference floors are often a hotbed of such activity; this year’s TSAM was a case in point. The talk of the show floor within the back office buy side community, much the same as last year’s FIMA, was legal entity identification, including Swift’s decision to…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing appoints Sue Baines as Head of Sales for EMEA
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has announced the appointment of Sue Baines as head of sales for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Baines will have responsibility for asset servicing sales and marketing across the EMEA region. She will be based in London, reporting to Frank Froud, head of EMEA for the Asset Servicing business. Baines…
SIX Telekurs Partners with Inforex to Increase its Market Presence in Greece
SIX Telekurs and Inforex, an official data vendor of the Athens Stock Exchange, have signed an agreement to pursue a common growth strategy in the Greek market. The agreement enables Inforex to offer international financial market data drawn from the products and the unique database of SIX Telekurs. Elena Pateropoulou, managing director of Inforex, comments,…
Xenomorph Extends Local Technical Support Capability in Asia Pacific
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solution provider to global financial institutions, extends local technical support capability to Australia and the Asia Pacific time zone with the relocation of two senior employees from the UK to Australia. Chris Budgen, chief technical architect and founding director, and Irina Taran, senior developer, have moved to Melbourne and…
Broadridge Achieves a Record Year in 2010 for Fixed Income Processing Platform Implementations
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that 2010 was a record year for client implementations of its fixed income securities processing platform. Eleven new banks and brokerage firms chose Broadridge because of the expansiveness of its fixed income processing platform, the speed and efficiency with which Broadridge brings clients onto the system, and its enhanced data…
Regulators Should Begin Work With the Data and Formats Already Being Reported, Says ICFR’s Ridpath
A lot has been said on the subject of systemic risk monitoring and the collection of macroprudential data over the last year or so (just look at the developments in the US around the Office of Financial Research for proof) and the International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) is aiming to play its part in…