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A-Team Group Data Management Summit Virtual Hit the Hot Topics of Data Strategy, Regulatory Reporting, KYC and Onboarding
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit Virtual, hosted last week by president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney, got off to a great start with a day one keynote by Deborah Lorenzen, managing director, head of enterprise data governance at State Street. Lorenzen was followed by panel sessions focused on using data strategy to drive data…
AWS Adds Amazon FinSpace Managed Service Offering Data Management and Preparation for Analytics
AWS has released Amazon FinSpace, a data management and analytics managed service designed to store, catalogue and prepare financial industry data at scale, as well as reduce the time it takes to find and access data for analysis from months to minutes. FinSpace avoids the heavy lifting of building and maintaining a data management system…
Australian Superannuation Fund QSuper Selects Matrix IDM for Integrated Data Management Solution
QSuper, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds, has selected Matrix IDM’s data management product to provide a fully integrated solution across security, pricing, positions, accounts, risk, performance, and corporate actions data. The fund was looking for an off-the-shelf data warehouse to support a data strategy project that would create a vendor and custodian agnostic data…
Guotai Junan Securities Asset Management Selects Bloomberg Data License Plus to Support Digital Transformation
Bloomberg has reached cooperation on financial technology with Guotai Junan Securities Asset Management (GTJA AM) to support the asset manager’s digital transformation. Guotai Junan is based in Shanghai and is the first Chinese financial institution to adopt Bloomberg Data License Plus (DL+), a hosted data management solution that the firm will use to enhance its…
Fenergo Transaction Gives 70% Ownership to Astorg and BridgePoint at $1.64 Billion Valuation
After months of speculation, Fenergo has secured new ownership and capital for future growth in a deal that values the Irish provider of KYC and client relationship management software at $1.64 billion. Under the transaction, French private equity group Astorg and BridgePoint, a London-based hedge fund, have acquired a majority stake in Fenergo, buying out…
Tableau Supports Capital Markets Participants’ Priorities, Adds Business Science
Tableau, a provider of business intelligence and analytics software, is working with capital markets participants to achieve priorities of driving customer growth, ensuring regulatory compliance, using data analytics for business insight, and identifying operational efficiencies. Most recently, it has added business science to its capabilities, democratising data science and providing business users and analysts with…
A-Team Group Releases Entity Data Management Handbook 2021
The use of accurate, complete and timely entity data and modern entity data management solutions can be the difference between regulatory compliance and penalties for non-compliance, doing business with the right or wrong customers, and complying with sanctions and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) requirements or breaching these and incurring eye-watering financial fines and reputational damage….
Former HSBC Global CDO Lorraine Waters Joins Solidatus as the Company’s First CDO
Lorraine Waters, who took early retirement from her role as global chief data officer at HSBC in September 2020, has returned to the capital markets data management community in the role of chief data officer at Solidatus. She joins the company, a leader in metadata management software, as it expands in size, extends its geographic…
Bank of England Progresses Data Standards Plan to Improve Data Collection at Lower Cost to Industry
The Bank of England is pressing ahead with plans to deliver data standards for data collection based on its vision that ‘the bank gets the data it needs to fulfil its mission, at the lowest possible cost to industry’. It acknowledges the challenges of setting standards, such as coordinating collective action, and says it will…
CUSIP Calls on Financial Institutions to Get More Involved in Data Standards Development
CUSIP Global Services is working in partnership to accelerate data standards development in emerging markets including digital securities and ESG investing. The standards organisation is also working with the ANNA Service Bureau to improve coverage and quality of ISINs, and with regulators and the Derivatives Service Bureau on the introduction of the UPI later this…