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AIB’s McMorrow Explains Benefits of Teradata Warehouse Implementation and Ongoing Challenges
Allied Irish Bank’s (AIB) enterprise data warehouse project manager Michael McMorrow is a great proponent of Teradata’s functionally neutral and self-managing approach to data storage. The bank rolled out the vendor’s Teradata Warehouse solution a few years ago and is now focused on keeping up with the data management changes required as a result of…
UBS Using Front Office Technology to Deal With Reference Data Processing, Says Berry
In a move that confirms that the worlds of the front office and the back office are moving ever closer, UBS’ executive in charge of market data sourcing and strategy, David Berry has indicated that the bank is using Celoxica’s hardware appliance-based data feed handlers to process its market and reference data. The rationale behind…
HSBC’s One Reference Data Project Now Tracking Overall Instrument Data Usage, Says Pujol
HSBC has been working on its group reference data management integration programme, dubbed One HSBC, for some time now and the work has resulted in the consolidated data management being able to track data usage, says Dominique Pujol, senior project manager in the EDM team. The bank has moved a large part of its reference…
S&P’s Valuations & Risk Strategies Group Launches New Web Portal for Access to Underlying Pricing Data
As indicated by Lou Eccleston, executive managing director of S&P’s Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS) business, last month, the vendor has extended its transparency initiative by launching a new web-based portal to access its end of day pricing data and terms and conditions data. The launch comes from FIRMS’ new Valuation & Risk Strategies…
SuperDerivatives Appoints Leading Equity Derivatives Specialist
SuperDerivatives, the derivatives benchmark, has appointed Mikael Benguigui to head up its expert equity derivatives sales team. Reporting to global head of sales Russel Levi, Benguigui joins SD as head of equity sales. He will be responsible for promoting SD’s equity system to a global customer base and managing relationships with large equity derivatives desks….
Fed’s Tarullo Pushes For Mandatory Reference Data Reporting and Standardisation
This week, US Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo brought the issue of data standardisation to the attention of the US Senate during his testimony before the Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance, following up on his comments last year about the data challenge related to living wills reforms. He is proposing to establish…
European Regulators Ready to Engage With Data Management Community, Says CESR Tech’s Voipio
As Fed governor Daniel Tarullo’s speech drives forward the data agenda in the US, across the pond, Arja Voipio, senior advisor at the Financial Supervisory Authority in Finland (FIN-FSA) and chair of CESR-Tech, the information technology governance structure of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), told delegates to Marcus Evans’ reference data conference that…
QuIC Financial Technologies Promotes Wilson to Chief Operating Officer
QuIC Financial Technologies, a provider of risk management, pricing and analytic solutions, today announced the promotion of Stephen Wilson to the position of chief operating officer as part of a series of management moves to enhance QuIC’s capability in executing on it’s long-term growth strategy. “Steve’s in depth experience with QuIC makes him the ideal…
ECB’s Utility Has a Place But Not Before Standardisation, Says BarCap’s Nagle
The old adage of not putting the cart before the horse was pertinent this week, during discussions at the Marcus Evans reference data conference on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposed reference data utility. The concept has been a topic of significant debate for some time now and panellists including Llew Nagle, who is in charge…
BarCap Adds ABN Amro’s Thomas to Entity Data Role and Nagle as New Head of Data Quality
Barclays Capital has promoted ex-project manager for global reference data Llew Nagle to the brand new position of head of data quality for the bank and added ex-ABN Amro entity data specialist David Thomas as a vice president in charge of client data. In their new roles, Nagle is responsible for the management of data…