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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Eikon – A Window to Enterprise Data

At the risk of sounding contrarian, could it be that an earlier generation of Thomson Reuters management was onto something when it put a whole lot of the Thomson family’s eggs in the Eikon basket? While the initial vision may have been of a modern premium trader desktop, the latest incarnation is more of a…

Bloomberg Integrates OneTick with EMSX to Augment Analytics

Bloomberg has augmented the analytics available to users of its EMSX execution management system with the integration of OneTick’s complex event processing (CEP) engine and database. The aim is to offer more actionable analytics and provide EMSX users with access to real-time venue analytics, intra-day market impact analytics and advanced liquidity signal indications. Bloomberg looked…

SAS Combines Software Modules to Deliver Capital Management Solution

SAS has packaged two of its existing software modules to deliver SAS Capital Planning and Management, a solution designed to help banks meet regulatory and internal capital management requirements quickly and efficiently. The package combines SAS Financial Management with specific capabilities added for capital planning, such as calculation rules and capital allocation, with SAS Operations…

Talking Reference Data with Sarah Underwood: Solutions to Solve the Data Management Conundrum

As in-house reference data management models near breaking point, talk is turning to hosted solutions, managed services and data utilities. These solutions could provide some of the cost reductions that firms must find, but they do not come without their own problems of data quality, responsibility for data, timely collection and distribution of data and,…

Recorded Webinar: Hosted/Managed Services

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The on-site data management model is broken. Resources have been squeezed to breaking point. The industry needs a new operating model if it is truly to do more with less. Can hosted/managed services provide the answer? Can the marketplace really create and maintain a…

Thomson Reuters Embeds Tagging Technology to Improve Transparency of Benchmark Submissions

Thomson Reuters has embedded tagging technology into its Enterprise Platform software with the aim of helping banks improve transparency and reporting around benchmark submissions and other contributed data. The development is a timely response to the issue flagged by the recent penalties imposed on banks for rigging of the key Libor benchmark. The Thomson Reuters…

Hosted/Managed Services

The on-site data management model is broken. Resources have been squeezed to breaking point. The industry needs a new operating model if it is truly to do more with less. Can hosted/managed services provide the answer? Can the marketplace really create and maintain a utility-based approach to reference data management? And if so, how can…

EDMworks Debates the Data Management Demands of Regulatory and Business Change

As numerous regulations come into force this year and financial firms pursue product innovation, client retention and cost reduction, the pressure is on to deliver data management programmes that can absorb change and meet both regulatory and business requirements. The EDMworks Data Practitioner Network gathered recently to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by regulatory…

GoldenSource Names New CEO as it Moves into EDM as a Service

In a move to position itself for the next generation of enterprise data management (EDM) as a service, GoldenSource has named former Pivot chief John H Eley as CEO. Eley replaces Mike Meriton, who has led GoldenSource since January 2002 and remains at the firm as vice chairman with a remit to capitalise on growth…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Getting Real About The Utility Model

There’s been a lot of air – some of it hot – expressed around the concept of a shared utility for reference data management. On my travels around the City, and on Wall Street, I get the sense of a polarisation of views, between the perhaps naively optimistic and the deeply cynical. What’s a utility…