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Recorded Webinar: How to Track Data Lineage for Enterprise Data Management
Data lineage, the ability to track the source and lifecycle of your reference data, is becoming increasingly important as regulations call for greater transparency and risk managers require confidence in the data feeding their models. What regulations are driving the need for data lineage, what do you need to be able to demonstrate, and what…
Synechron Acquisition of Hatstand Extends Data Management Capability
Synechron has acquired financial services consultancy and capital markets specialist Hatstand with a view to building out its data management, regulation and risk capabilities. The company also gains Hatstand’s expertise in terminal consolidation. The acquisition of Hatstand follows a string of acquisitions made last year by Synechron, a New York based consulting and technology company…
State of Data Governance: Making Data Management Programmes Operational
By Gavin Kaimowitz, Global Data Practice Lead at Sapient Global Markets Global financial institutions are coming to the realisation that the business processes and operational models they have relied on in the past won’t necessarily help them succeed in the current increasingly regulated environment. That’s not to mention the struggle to overcome lower margins and…
ICBC Standard Bank Implements Fenergo Client Lifecycle Management
ICBC Standard Bank is implementing Fenergo’s client lifecycle management solution to meet Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and customer onboarding rules and regulations, and improve operational efficiency. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) acquired a majority stake in London-based Standard Bank from South Africa’s Standard Bank Group early last year and took on…
Asset Control Integrates Matlab with AC Plus Data Management Platform
Asset Control has integrated its AC Plus data management platform with MathWorks’ Matlab financial analytics language to bring data and financial models closer together and deliver more robust calculation and validation of risk factor and valuations data. The integration recognises the use of Matlab by many Asset Control customers and overcomes the need to move…
Markit Integrates EDM with VistaOne Data Warehouse and vReporter
Markit has completed the integration of VistaOne and vReporter with its enterprise data management (EDM) software and is preparing to bring a combined EDM, data warehouse and reporting solution to market. The company acquired the VistaOne data warehouse and reporting solution as part of its acquisition of CoreOne Technologies in August 2015. It also acquired…
SIX Financial Information Develops Utility for Compliance with Investor Protection Rules
SIX Financial Information is developing a document management utility designed to help financial institutions comply with investor protection rules issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and due to take effect on January 1st 2017. The rules are also an element of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), a European regulation…
Nice Actimize Moves into Middle Tier Market with Cloud Based AML Solution
Nice Actimize is moving into the mid-sized financial institutions market with a cloud platform that will initially provide an anti-money laundering (AML) software-as-a-service solution and later a complete suite of financial crime applications. The AML solution, Actimize AML Essentials, is a packaged and variant version of the company’s AML enterprise software. It covers suspicious activity…
Entity Data Management Handbook – Second Edition
Entity data management is this year’s hot topic as financial firms focus on entity data to gain a better understanding of customers, improve risk management and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Data management programmes that enrich the Legal Entity Identifier with hierarchy data and links to other datasets can also add real value, including new business…
Markit Releases Due Diligence Solution for Common Reporting Standard
Markit is addressing the customer due diligence requirements of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) with a solution based on its tax and Know Your Customer (KYC) experience, and designed in conjunction with five market participants including Barclays and Brown Brothers Harriman. Essentially, CRS is a global version of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act…