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Breaking the EDM Mould
The regulatory drive for transparency across capital markets is pushing traditional enterprise data management (EDM) solutions, such as data warehouse platforms and extract, transform and load (ETL) systems, towards breaking point. An emerging and disruptive approach to EDM is based on open source high-performance data bus technologies that are particularly good at ingesting and routing…
Misato Takes Disruptive Technology Approach to Enterprise Data Management
Misato is addressing financial institutions’ enterprise data management (EDM) challenges with a disruptive approach based on open source high-performance data bus technologies. The company’s Data Hub moves away from traditional data warehouse and extract, transform and load (ETL) solutions to focus on how data is consumed by applications. Working backwards, the hub can then reduce…
How to Implement Data Quality Metrics that Deliver for the Business
Data quality metrics are essential to financial firms and can deliver significant operational benefits that are increasingly driven by emerging technologies such as machine learning. The business case for metrics, best approaches to implementation, and the potential of technology to improve both data quality and metrics were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar, Using…
Making Data Valuable Requires Quality and Structure
Building the ability to recognise the value in data and derive that value for the enterprise is a complicated proposition to include in data management models, according to experts who spoke at the Data Management Summit hosted by A-Team Group in New York earlier this month. First, firms should establish an “accountability structure through a…
GLEIF Eases LEI Acquisition as Identifier Passes the Half Million Mark
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has passed the half million mark, the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) is encouraging the creation of registration agents that will help firms get LEIs, and plans are on the board for mapping services that will link SWIFT BICS and Association of National Numbering Agency (ANNA) ISINs to the identifier. Will…
IBM CDO Presents the Case for a Cognitive Enterprise
Creating a cognitive enterprise is within reach and could ease the regulatory burden, increase the efficiency of data management, and improve decision making. Discussing the use and potential of cognitive technologies at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York, Inderpal Bhandari, global chief data officer at IBM, set out IBM’s view of cognition…
Webinar Discusses Data Management Processes in Run up To MiFID II Compliance
The 3 January, 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, so how ready are financial institutions to meet the directive’s requirements and what outstanding data management challenges do they face? A recent A-Team Group webinar answered these questions and more, highlighting the need to get cracking on…
BCBS Says Bank Compliance with Risk Aggregation Principles is Unsatisfactory
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) reports that the level of compliance with its principles for effective risk data aggregation and reporting is unsatisfactory at globally systematically important banks (G-SIBS). It urges the banks to step up their efforts and recommends that they should develop clear roadmaps to achieve full compliance, supervisors should communicate…
Project Sentinel Makes Headway on MiFID II Compliance
Project Sentinel, a consortium of banks working to mutualise the cost of implementing Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) in the OTC front office, will pass a significant milestone on Monday 3 April when Adaptive, a software firm selected by Sentinel as a technology provider, will deliver the backbone of the Sentinel solution…
Challenges of MiFID II Reporting Leave Firms Unready for Compliance
Few financial institutions are ready to meet the requirements of transaction reporting under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), while many are facing ongoing challenges including understanding the regulatory requirement, sourcing required data and integrating standard data codes. The data management challenges of MiFID II transaction reporting, approaches to compliance, and the benefits…