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Consorzio Operativo MPS Plans Implementation of GoldenSource Customers and Counterparties Solution

Consorzio Operativo MPS, the technology arm of Banca Monte Dei Paschi di Siena, the world’s oldest bank and flagship of the MPS Group, has selected the GoldenSource Customers and Counterparties data management solution to create, maintain and publish a standardised reference data repository for the group’s counterparty data. The technology operation is already rolling out…

Feature: Sizing the Problem and Finding Solutions for Risk Data Aggregation

Risk data aggregation became a hot topic after the financial crash in 2008, when it became clear that banks did not have the necessary risk information readily available to understand their exposures to counterparties and inform regulators of their positions. Senior managers were making poor decisions based on poor data and supervisory regulators failed to…

Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: It’s Data Management, Jim, but Not as We Know It

Markit’s decision to use Livingstone’s software asset management (SAM) services, announced last week, is the company’s first visible deal in our space since Dan Simpson, former head of CADIS Software, left his company’s acquirer to become Livingstone’s CEO some 10 months ago. Because it’s Markit, we at Data Management Review find the deal interesting. But…

A-Team Webinar Considers Collaborative Solutions for Client Onboarding

Collaborative industry solutions for client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes promise banks significant benefits in terms of reduced cost and increased efficiency, but the practical implementation of these types of solutions is equally challenging in an environment where banks are at different stages of process automation and manage both similar and different customer…

Thomson Reuters Details Build Out of Org ID Managed Service for KYC

Thomson Reuters is building out its Org ID Know Your Customer (KYC) managed service – winner of this year’s A-Team Award for Best KYC & Client On-Boarding Solution – with the addition of nearly 2,000 entity records a month, plans for geographic expansion, and expectations of signing an additional six deals for the service in…

Cattolica Assicurazioni Implements GoldenSource Solution to Support Solvency II Compliance

Italian asset manager Cattolica Assicurazioni is implementing GoldenSource’s Market Data Solution as part of a Solvency II project that aims to meet the regulation’s January 1st 2016 compliance deadline. The asset manager selected the GoldenSource solution ahead of other contenders for the project on the basis of is completeness, ease of use by non-technical staff,…

Alacra Plans Q1 2016 Release of Full-Scale Resolve Service

Alacra is piloting a full-scale version of its Resolve matching and cross-referencing service for publicly available entity identifiers, following the introduction of an entry level version of the service back in August. While the entry level version of Resolve allows searches of close to 5 million legal entities in the Alacra Legal Entity Directory on…

SmartStream Supports Open Source Identifiers in Reference Data Utility

SmartStream Technologies is planning to help users of its Reference Data Utility – or SPReD Securities Product Reference Data platform – adopt open source identifiers following an agreement with Thomson Reuters under which the latter will provide reference data including open source PermID identifiers to the utility. The company is also in conversation with Bloomberg…

New York City Data Management Summit Discusses Data as a Business Asset and Introduces A-Team’s BCBS 239 Handbook

Data governance, risk data aggregation, regulatory challenge, utility models, data architecture, Know Your Customer (KYC), data as an asset and machine learning were just some of the data management topics discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City. The conference also hosted the introduction of A-Team’s BCBS 239 handbook, which…

Regulation Review: BCBS 239

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation BCBS 239 takes effect on January 1, 2016 with global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) the first tranche of banks that must achieve compliance. Domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs) will follow three years after their designation as D-SIBs, although many national supervisors are expected to encourage compliance among these…