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SimCorp and Thomson Reuters Enhance Users’ Access to Pricing, Reference Content?

SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, and Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the installation of a dedicated adapter enabling portfolio managers to access DataScope Select pricing and reference data through the SimCorp Dimension software platform….

Recorded Webinar: Screening for Sanctions, Watch Lists and PEPs

How do you effectively screen for sanctions, watch lists and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)? Getting it right is essential for complying with regulations like AML, KYC and FATCA, reducing the risk of incurring heavy fines, and keeping your firm’s reputation intact. But what are the options, considerations and solutions available for effective data sourcing and…

Alacra Adds GIINs and Cross-References Them to Other Identifiers in its Alacra Authority File Plus

Alacra has added Global Intermediary Identifier Numbers (GIINs) to its Alacra Authority File Plus (AAF+) with a view to helping firms match the identifiers to other public and vendor proprietary identifiers. GIINs are assigned by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to foreign financial institutions that must comply with tax reporting requirements under the US Foreign…

New York Data Management Summit: Setting the scene for 2015

A-Team Group kicked off last week’s Data Management Summit in New York City with a review of the company’s Regulatory Data Index by A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney and a keynote on the challenges of data management by John Fleming, head of enterprise data governance at BNY Mellon. The A-Team Regulatory Data Index is…

CounterpartyLink Takes Top-Down View of Entity Hierarchies with CPL Hierarchy Profile

CounterpartyLink has reversed the process of building legal entity data hierarchies from the bottom up to deliver CPL Hierarchy Profile, a product designed to provide a top-down, single view of a legal entity including its entire group structure and links between entities in the structure. The company has been researching and validating entity data from…

Opinion: What Every Global Bank Should Know About Emerging KYC Solutions

Banks must navigate the maze of regulations or face costly fines. Lee Forsyth, Global Lead KYC Consultant at Thomson Reuters, explains there’s a way through with new solutions. No doubt you have noticed our industry is swimming in acronyms: AML, FATCA, UBO, FATF, KYC. This jumbled alphabet mash-up is the perfect symbol of the complex…

Opinion: Chief Data Officers – The Case for the Defence

A large number of financial institutions (FIs) have appointed chief data officers (CDOs) over the past couple of years. I know a few of them and while they come from a wide variety of backgrounds—some technical, some business, some ‘data geek’—they share a common belief that an organization’s data is one of its most important…

Data Management Summit: Finding Solutions to the Data Management Problems of Client Onboarding and KYC

Increasing enforcement of Know Your Client (KYC) regulations and large fines for non-compliance are driving banks to review client onboarding processes and make changes that will not only help them meet regulatory requirements, but also improve the client experience, increase efficiency and reduce time to revenue. The data management challenges of client onboarding and KYC,…

CGS and Ipreo Extend Partnership to Streamline Identifier Issuance for new Securities in Equity and Fixed Income Markets

Cusip Global Services (CGS) and Ipreo are building out an existing relationship in the US municipal market to allow users of Ipreo’s security issuance software in global equity and fixed income markets to automatically submit requests for Cusip and ISIN identifiers through the company’s global cross-asset class book building system. Once created, the identifiers are…

What’s Missing from your Client Onboarding Process?

There’s now a spotlight shining on the process of client onboarding due to regulations that are driving change in what is typically a fragmented and decentralised approach. While many firms recognise that getting their onboarding house in order is essential to achieving regulatory compliance and avoiding hefty penalties, addressing those functions in isolation is not…