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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…
Swift Eases Payments Data Consumption With SwiftRef APIs
Swift has added 12 application programming interfaces (APIs) to its SwiftRef reference data utility with a view to helping financial institutions and corporates automate payment processes by identifying and validating payments reference data in real time using information in SwiftRef. The APIs have been piloted for 18 months and are now market ready. They cover…
New York Data Management Summit: Setting the scene for 2015
A-Team Group kicked off last week’s Data Management Summit in New York City with a review of the company’s Regulatory Data Index by A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney and a keynote on the challenges of data management by John Fleming, head of enterprise data governance at BNY Mellon. The A-Team Regulatory Data Index is…
Asset Control Recruits Martijn Groot to Lead Product Strategy Including Data Service Manager
Martijn Groot has left Euroclear and rejoined Asset Control to lead the company’s product strategy. His initial responsibility is Data Service Manager, a product that is designed to help financial institutions improve the timeliness and quality of their market, reference and risk data services. It is also Asset Control’s first significant product release since it…
Eagle Investment Systems Sets Out Growth Plans
Eagle Investment Systems, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, is planning to build out its Access cloud technology platform with the addition of data centres hosting the solution in Europe and Asia Pacific to an existing data centre in the US. The company expects to open a European facility, most probably outside London, in June 2015…