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Thomson Reuters Builds Out Regulatory Change Management Offer
Thomson Reuters’ release of Regulatory Change Management is designed to help financial institutions harmonise their approach to regulatory change and compliance, mitigate risk and reduce administrative costs. The introduction of RCM follows Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of UK-based regulatory technology provider Empowered Systems in March 2016. RCM is offered on Thomson Reuters’ Connected Risk platform and…
Advanced Logic Analytics Discusses Proposals for Compliance and Trading
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA) plans to meet the data management requirements of regulatory compliance and the trading need for predictive, behavioural and emotional analytics with OneLogic, an analytics platform designed to process and analyse structured and unstructured data big data in real time. We caught up with ALA managing director, Nick Ellis, just a week…
MiFID II Best Execution Presents Challenges and Opportunities
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) raises the bar on best execution, presenting significant data management challenges, but also opportunities to use best execution data to gain competitive edge. Where MiFID required investment managers to show they had taken ‘reasonable’ steps to demonstrate best execution, MiFID II requires ‘sufficient’ steps, suggesting a more…
Privitar Provides Products to Meet Data Privacy by Design Requirements of GDPR
Privitar is meeting the privacy by design and default principles of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with innovative data privacy solutions that play not only into regulatory compliance, but also into gaining greater value from data, particularly big data. The company’s approach to GDPR data privacy requirements is based on risk mitigation provided by two…
Blockchain: Are we nearly there yet?
By Joshua Satten, Director of Business Consulting, Sapient Global Markets Recently, I led a panel discussion on blockchain case studies at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Asset Managers Forum in New York. The panel presented diverse perspectives on the current state of blockchain across the financial industry with representatives coming from State…
Markit EDM Lays Out 2017 Roadmap
Markit EDM, the enterprise data management (EDM) business of Markit that merged with IHS in July 2016, has laid out its roadmap for 2017 including functional expansion of its EDM platform and a focus on delivering improved data visualisation to business users. Working with IHS, a provider of proprietary information, analytics and solutions to a…
The Reference Data Utility Handbook
The potential of a reference data utility model has been discussed for many years, and while early implementations failed to gain traction, the model has now come of age as financial institutions look for new data management models that can solve the challenges of operational cost reduction, improved data quality and regulatory compliance. The multi-tenanted…
Nascent Exchange IPSX Implements GoldenSource Cloud EDM Platform
The International Property Securities Exchange (IPSX) is working with GoldenSource to implement the software vendor’s cloud-based enterprise data management (EDM) platform ahead of its planned launch towards the middle of this year. The exchange still needs approval from the Financial Conduct Authority, but expects to be the first regulated exchange dedicated to the admission and…
A Web of Complexity
By Martijn Groot, vice president of product management, Asset Control At the centre of financial services risk management and regulatory compliance is the convergence of data from a huge range of information silos, departments, product lines, customers and risk categories. Risk and finance are at the end of an extensive chain, examining the consolidated threads,…
DTCC Data Products To Add Trade Warehouse and Repository Information
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC’s) Data Products business expects to unveil more new offerings drawn from DTCC’s Trade Information Warehouses and its Global Trade Repository later this month, or early this year, according to Ron Jordan, managing director at DTCC, who heads its data services business. “2017 is about accelerating what we started…