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Regulation Review – Data Management Challenges of MiFID II
The compliance deadline for the European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) may yet be pushed back a year to January 2018, but the need to tackle the data management challenges of MiFID II is immediate, whatever the European Commission’s final decision on deadlines. The regulation is much broader than the initial…
What do banks need to do to survive in the new risk era?
By Neil Vernon, Chief Technology Officer at Gresham UK With high profile internal security breaches, stringent regulation and regulatory fines on the up, banks are under greater pressure than ever before to both guarantee and evidence the integrity of their data. But with existing banking IT infrastructure – patchworked systems, siloed processes and fragmented organisations…
Giving Away the Value of Reference Data
By Chris Pickles, Co-Chair of FIX Trading Community’s Reference Data Subgroup and Member of the Bloomberg Open Symbology Team Reference data is not only a foundation of data management, it is also a revenue earning commodity, particularly for exchanges and issuers of ISINs. MiFIR requires exchanges, multilateral trading facilities, organised trading facilities and systematic internalisers…
GoldenSource Partners Options to Extend Reach of OnDemand Managed Service
GoldenSource has extended its relationship with managed service and IT infrastructure provider Options to ensure it can meet growing global demand for the managed service version of its enterprise data management (EDM) solution. The company already uses Options’ Momentum managed application and hosting solution to support GoldenSource OnDemand, but has reinforced its partnership to deliver…
NeoXam Bases Growth Strategy on Data Management, Investment Management and Accounting
NeoXam has consolidated its acquisitions of the past couple of years, including enterprise data management (EDM) specialist SmartCo, and set out a growth strategy based on the three disciplines of data management, investment management and investment accounting, and extended geographic reach across North America and Asia. The Paris-based company is also developing cloud based on-demand…
Markit Migrates EDM Users to Amazon Web Services Cloud
The migration of Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud has attracted six clients since it went live last April. The clients are split between North America and Europe and range from asset managers to third-party application providers using the company’s platform. Markit has been offering managed services using…
SNL Financial Takes Upper Hand in Merger with S&P Capital IQ
The outcome of McGraw Hill Financial’s acquisition of SNL Financial in September 2015 and its merger with S&P Capital IQ is beginning to take shape in the form of an enlarged data, research and analytics company with a cumbersome name – S&P Capital IQ + SNL Financial – and a leadership line-up that suggests S&P…
Fenergo Teams Up with Markit and kyc.com to Improve Client Lifecycle Management
Fenergo has formed a strategic relationship with Markit that will allow banks using its client lifecycle management software to automate consumption of Know Your Customer (KYC) and counterparty data from Markit and kyc.com, a joint venture between Markit and Genpact. The automation is based on Data Integration Manager, an adjunct to Fenergo’s client lifecycle management…
Regulation Review – AIFMD
As January 1st 2016 approaches and regulations such as BCBS 239 and Solvency II come into force, bringing with them considerable data management demands, other more seasoned regulations, among them the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) that took effect in 2013, continue to pose data management challenges. AIFMD was introduced by the European Union…
SmartStream win Best Managed Services Solution at the recent Data Management Review Awards 2015
Take a look at the video of the Data Management Review Awards including an exclusive interview with SmartStream following their successful win in the ‘Best Managed Services Solution’ category.