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Talking Reference Data With Andrew Delaney: Back to School

Our five-year-old was stunned this morning when I told her she was starting school tomorrow, this after having spent weeks, nay months, in preparation – buying uniform, signing up for music lessons, selecting a lunchbox, choosing sandwich flavours and the like. Happily, she was thrilled with the news. I feel equally thrilled to be back…

The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Big Data Users – According to Forbes

We’re still grappling with just how to apply Big Data to the real world of financial data management. Interestingly, this article by Forbes’ contributor Adrian Bridgwater (@ABridgwater) takes the well-known book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and uses the seven-habit approach to apply to big data analytics for users, analysts,…

Etrali Develops Solution for Market Communication Requirements of MiFID II

Financial firms subject to MiFID II must tackle the problem of recording, retaining and providing access to market communications in order to comply with the regulation’s data retention requirements and satisfy any increased regulatory scrutiny of recorded calls and emails. Robert Powell, global head of compliance and product management at Etrali Trading Solutions, says many…

LIBOR: Could We Have Seen it Coming?

The repercussions of the LIBOR price fixing scandal are likely to run and run. We now know that from around 2005 onwards a number of banks were attempting to manipulate rates. Over $6 billion has already been levied in fines, and with $300 trillion-worth of contracts pegged to this all-important benchmark, the figure could well…

Eagle Investment Systems Supports Sovereign Wealth Funds

Eagle Investment Systems is working on enterprise data management (EDM) projects with an increasing number of sovereign wealth funds across Asia, the Middle East and South Africa as they recognise the need to invest in financial technology and operate along similar lines to large institutional asset managers. The drivers behind technology investment include the need…

Adaptive Combines Software AG Solutions to Deliver Real-Time Big Data Analytics

Adaptive Consulting has extended its relationship with Software AG to become a strategic partner working across the software company’s in-memory data management, streaming analytics, complex event processing (CEP) and universal messaging solutions. The consultancy has implemented Software AG’s messaging solution in global banks for a few years and is now working with two of the…

SunGard Measures the Gap Between Data Reporting and Business Intelligence

The gap between financial data reporting and business intelligence has still to be closed at many firms as they struggle to move away from after-the-fact reporting and adopt proactive and investigative reporting strategies. The gap is often exacerbated by the use of multiple systems, but it can be narrowed by improving data management, automating reporting…

DTCC Pushes Forward with Clarient Client Reference Data Utility

DTCC is coming closer to delivering the client data and documentation utility it described last year as it tests the first release of Clarient Entity Hub ahead of general availability in the fourth quarter of this year. The company signed a memorandum of understanding to design and develop a utility that would support client on-boarding…

EMIR Reporting Continues to Pose Data Management Challenge

The reporting requirements of European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) continue to challenge financial institutions six months after they came into force and ahead of regulatory intent to fine firms that fail to report correctly under the regulation. Industry estimates suggest that, to date, only 1% of trades have been correctly matched under EMIR due to…

Are These the Best Providers of Enterprise Data Management Platforms?

Do you think Goldensource is the best sell-side enterprise data management platform? Or Fidelity ActionsXchange is the best corporate actions processing platform? How about Wolters Kluwer as the best regulatory solutions provider? Or DTCC’s Avox as the best LEI data solution? These are some of the winners of last year’s Data Management Summit Awards. If…