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Investec Asset Management Planning to Rationalise London and Cape Town Data Hubs This Year, Says Schoonraad
Following its implementation of the Netik InterView data warehouse in separate iterations at its Cape Town and London operations, which began back in 2004 and was completed last year, Investec Asset Management is now planning to rationalise these two data warehouses so that it can operate from a single global data warehouse. Waldi Schoonraad, UK…
Auris Gestion Privee Chooses Pricing Partners for the Independent Valuation of its Structured Products
Pricing Partners announced today that Auris Gestion Privée has selected the Price-it Online platform for the independent valuation of its structured products. Marc de Saint Denis, chairman of Auris Gestion Privée, commented: “Our company had been looking for a reliable and recognized solution for some time now. After carefully evaluating several tentative solutions, we have…
Moving Interactive Forward – Slowly
Unsurprisingly, there has been little news from Interactive Data on how its ‘strategic review’ is progressing. As you’ll recall, the company took everyone by surprise – including its staff – with the announcement that it’s exploring options as its current owner, Pearson, looks at focusing on its core business, which increasingly seems to be not…
Lehman Investigation Indicates Immense Scale of the Data Challenge Due to 350bn Pages of Data and “Arcane Systems”
The recently published examiner report into the Lehman bankruptcy indicates the scale of the data challenge faced when winding down a financial institution of its size: the examiner was faced with three perabytes (otherwise known as 350 billion pages) of electronically stored data to process. Unsurprisingly, given the fact that information needed to be presented…
Broadridge Announces New Head of Continental Europe for its International Securities Processing Solutions Business
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced the appointment of Andreas G?nther as head of Continental Europe for its international securities processing solutions business, which currently operates from its offices in Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. He will continue to report to Tom Carey, president, Securities Processing Solutions, International, Broadridge. In his new role, G?nther will…
FactSet Research Systems Witnesses Revenue Uptick of 0.5% for Second Quarter
After a difficult first quarter of fiscal 2010, data and analytics vendor FactSet Research Systems seems to be experiencing a return to form with an overall revenue increase of 0.5% for the second quarter on previous year’s figures. Phil Hadley, chairman and CEO of the vendor, indicates that he believes the investment in its business…
BCBS’ Corporate Governance Paper Highlights Need for a “Sufficiently Robust” IT Infrastructure for Risk Management
In keeping with the recent onslaught of regulatory papers aimed at fostering a more risk aware financial services industry, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published yet another consultative paper this week, this time focused on corporate governance. The paper includes 14 principles aimed at sparking investment by firms into their risk infrastructures…
Spain’s Third Largest Bank Banco Popular Installs Informatica Data Quality
Informatica Corporation announced that Banco Popular is implementing Informatica Data Quality to improve the quality of information handled by the company and contribute to the launch of more effective business campaigns. With a presence in Spain, Portugal and the United States, the Banco Popular Group is currently the third largest banking group in Spain, with…
IOSCO Elaborates on Data Template for Hedge Funds Risk Monitoring Purposes
Last month, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee published the details of the new agreed template for the global collection of hedge fund data in order to better manage systemic risk. These new data requirements are aimed at bringing a new level of transparency to the traditionally opaque sector but will, in…
Maples Finance Adopts Paladyne’s Industry-Standard Technology Platform
Paladyne Systems, a solutions provider to the global hedge fund industry, today announced that Maples Finance, an independent global fund services provider with US$30 billion in assets under administration, has successfully implemented the Paladyne product suite as its middle and back office solution. Maples Finance licensed Paladyne’s Application Service Provider (ASP) platform, a comprehensive software,…