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Rimes Buy-Side Survey Shows Room for Improvement in Data Quality and Governance
Data quality and data governance are the top data management priorities cited by buy-side firms in Rimes’ 2015 Buy-Side Survey. The survey respondents, particularly asset managers, also note that a lack of support for data governance and the limitations of existing operating models are hindering business agility and holding back strategy changes. Now in it…
Sun Street Offers Real-Time Data Quality Management in Version 5 of Curium
Sun Street has introduced real-time data quality management and a rules-based data quality scoring system in Version 5 of its Curium Data Quality Management (DQM) software. The developments are a response to business needs including risk reduction, improved data governance, regulatory compliance and, perhaps most importantly, the ability to keep decision makers and consuming systems…
Thomson Reuters Adds Price Challenge Tool to DataScope Select
Thomson Reuters has added a price challenge tool for fixed income professionals to its DataScope Select data delivery platform. The tool, AskTRPS, is designed to make the price challenge process faster, smoother, more transparent and easier to report for auditory and regulatory purposes. AskTRPS enhances the Thomson Reuters Pricing Service (TRPS) by allowing DataScope Select…
Capgemini Acquisition of IGATE Adds Financial Services Customers, Revenue and Technologies
Capgemini is set to fulfil its long-term aim of building presence in North American markets through a $4 billion acquisition agreement with New Jersey based technology and services company IGATE. The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year and will make North America Capgemini’s largest region, representing 30% of estimated…
Recorded Webinar: The Data Management Implications of BCBS 239
We plan to put the spotlight on this much overlooked but important regulation which has wide-ranging implications for risk data aggregation and reporting, data governance and data architecture. During this webinar we discuss: What is needed from a data management point of view to comply with BCBS 239 A view of progress across the industry…
Recorded Webinar: Enterprise Data Management – The Next Generation
What’s next for enterprise data management? We discuss technology approaches such as cloud, utility models and hybrid models, and the evolution of data, covering transaction data, regulatory data and other new trends impacting EDM.
New York Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Data Governance
The importance of data governance in financial services firms has never been greater as regulators scrutinise not only data but also its quality and business executives begin to understand data as a valuable asset. Reflecting the growing importance of data governance, A-Team Group addressed the problems it poses and the opportunities it presents at its…
Breaking News: Interactive Data Corporation Set for Sale
According to a news story on Thomson Reuters’ news service Interactive Data Corporation (IDC) is up for sale five years after it was purchased by private equity firms Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus. The firms are expected to sell IDC in a deal that could value the financial information business at $5.5 billion including debt,…
RFA Introduces Data Governance as a Service
RFA (Richard Fleischman & Associates) has teamed up with Varonis to provide a data governance solution-as-a-service for the alternative asset sector. The service is subscription based, with monthly costs depending on the number of users, and is available across the US and UK. The data governance service is a response to customer requests and has…
Bloomberg FIGI Finds Favour at U.S. Bank
Bloomberg’s open source Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) has won favour at U.S. Bank, where it will be used as a primary identifier to report on syndicated loans within collateralised loan obligations (CLOs). The company says other banks – so far unnamed – have adopted the identifier, but highlights the U.S. Bank as the first…