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DataArt Round Table Discusses the Implications of Innovation

Financial services firms need to innovate to meet changing client expectations, but will innovation prove transformational for large incumbent firms or will it support only evolutionary development? This question and others around business models, new technologies, fintech start-up and regtech were the subject of a recent round table discussion hosted by technology consultancy DataArt. Chris…

A-Team Publishes BCBS 239 Handbook

As the January 1, 2016 compliance deadline for BCBS 239 approaches, A-Team Group has published a BCBS 239 Handbook dedicated to the regulation and designed to help data management and data governance practitioners implement its 14 principles successfully. The regulation embodies the post-financial crisis need for effective and efficient risk data aggregation and reporting across…

AxiomSL Plans Software-As-A-Service Version of its Regulatory Reporting Platform

AxiomSL is planning to introduce a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its regulatory reporting and risk management platform next year with a view to supporting asset managers and hedge funds that do not have sufficient IT resources to deploy the platform in-house. The SaaS solution will offer these types of firms an additional option on access…

Exchanges Increase Market Data Revenue at Greater Rate than Traditional Vendors

The acquisition of Interactive Data (IDC) by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will make ICE the third largest market data vendor after Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. It will also increase exchanges’ market data revenue, which in 2014 rose 12.05% to $3.26 billion. In the same period, traditional data vendors grew market data revenue by 4.07% to close…

Smart Machines: A $10 Trillion Capacity Windfall or a $10 Trillion Jobs Deficit?

By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion Predictable, monotonous data work costs the United States, Canada and Europe over $10 trillion of human intelligence each year, and that number is growing. You know the kind of work: a data analyst sitting in front of two screens, one flashing an endless stream of unstructured content, the…

The Challenges and Opportunities of Smart Data Governance Strategies

The development of data governance strategies is being driven by regulation, but a smart strategy can deliver far more than regulatory compliance and give financial firms the ability to improve their customer relationships and increase profitability. With data governance at the top of the agenda at many banks, its challenges and opportunities will be discussed…

Interactive Data to be Acquired by Intercontinental Exchange for $5.2 billion

After much debate about the future of data vendor Interactive Data, it has emerged that Intercontinental Exchange has bought the company from its private equity backers for $5.2 billion. The backers Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus originally purchased the company for $3.4 billion in 2010. The deal ends over a year of speculation about when…

Finding a Balance Between Standards and Flexibility in Data Architecture

The integration of standards and flexibility into data architecture is an ongoing challenge for financial firms that must not only improve operational efficiency, but also sustain adaptability to support business and regulatory change. Both are important, but potentially opposed to each other, begging the question of how best to find an optimal balance between standards…

MarkLogic and ModelDR Propose a BCBS 239 Compliance Solution Based on Data Point Modelling

MarkLogic and ModelDR are challenging traditional approaches to BCBS 239 compliance with a solution that combines MarkLogic’s non-relational, multiple model database platform and ModelDR’s data point modelling software. The companies detailed their approach in a recent webinar, Sustained Compliance with BCBS 239, and said banks implementing the solution could lower costs, increase agility and ensure…

Thomson Reuters Eases Burden of Regulatory Shareholding Disclosures

Thomson Reuters has added significant shareholder and beneficial ownership data to its DataScope Select reference data platform in support of asset managers that must comply with regulations covering the disclosure of holdings in sensitive industries and holdings that exceed a percentage threshold of the outstanding capital of a company. The global regulations covering these disclosures…