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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…
Capital Markets’ Regulatory Burden: The Case for FIBO as a Relief
By Bob Iati, Senior Director of Capital Markets at Dun & Bradstreet The financial industry expends so much effort to meet difficult regulatory requirements that its ability to invest in innovative technologies is severely curtailed. However, many in the industry now find that investments in data standards – such as the Financial Industry Business Ontology…
Entity Data Management: Strategic Options and Approaches, London Seminar 13th April
By Dennis Slattery, CEO at EDMworks How do some teams keep winning? Every week, we see winners and losers in a variety of team sports. A tiny number of teams consistently outperform the rest. They lose occasionally, but on average they come out on top over a sequence of fixtures. Barcelona has dominated elite football…