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Eagle Enhances Software to Support Legal Entity Identifiers and Cleared Swaps
BNY Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment Systems has stepped up to the regulatory plate with a release of its portfolio management platform to support accommodate entity identifiers (LEIs) and enhancements to its investment accounting solution to support the processing of swaps that are cleared in line with Dodd-Frank legislation. The company started to consider client needs…
Paladyne Systems Extends Implementation at First Customer GoldenTree Asset Management
GoldenTree Asset Management, the first customer to implement Paladyne Systems’ Analytics Master data aggregation, reporting and reconciliation software back in 2006 is nearing the end of an 18-month project to build a central data warehouse for its applications using version 8.0 of the software. According to Steven Lamm, head of application support and data management…
Thomson Reuters Adds Data Management Solution for Fatca Compliance
Thomson Reuters is making a second foray into the market for Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) compliance solutions with a data management product designed to help financial institutions identify and tag securities that are subject to Fatca regulation and those that are exempt or, in Fatca terms, grandfathered obligations. The company made its first…
GoldenSource Responds to Market Interest in Financial Industry Business Ontology
The decision by GoldenSource to map its enterprise data management (EDM) solution to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) signals initial industry take up of the semantic standard, which GoldenSource suggests could go as far as becoming a regulatory requirement for reporting. FIBO is an initiative of the EDM Council and describes in business terms…
Wipro Pumps $30 Million Into Opera Solutions
Indian IT heavyweight Wipro has invested $30 million in New Jersey-based predictive analytics specialist Opera Solutions. It’s unclear what this values Opera at, but Wipro’s investment is a minority stake. Opera’s offerings include its cloud-based Signal Hub range. Signals are predictive patterns and anomalies in big data sets. Signal Hubs are domain-specific collections of Signals…
Bayer Implements SunGard Adaptiv Solutions to Support Risk Management
Germany’s Bayer AG has implemented a selection of SunGard’s Adaptiv solutions for risk management to ensure it meets the fair value accounting mandates of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS 13) and is ready to comply with European Market Infrastructure Regulation that is expected to come into force later this year. The German enterprise that…
Industry Underprepared for OTC Derivatives Trading and Market Regulation
By Ganesh Iyer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services, IPC Systems While recent years have seen much talk of financial reforms, there has remained a distinct lack of clarity around what new regulations will mean for financial institutions. In the trading industry, the regulations that will have the biggest impact are European Market Infrastructure…
Wolters Kluwer Proposes Solutions for the Challenges of Risk Data
Risk data needs to be identified, aggregated and centralised to deliver improved risk management. But the process entails significant challenges as risk data is growing exponentially, operational risk data related to people, processes and systems must be managed, and financial risk data remains inconsistent across institutions. That’s the message from Ioannis Akkizidis, global product manager…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A Close Shave
Anyone who was lucky enough to squeeze into the opening keynote presentation at our Data Management Summit in March (standing room only) would have heard me winging it a little as I awaited our speaker – Wipro’s Paolo Mittiga – who’d been delayed by various transportational snafus. When I took the stage to offer our…
MacKay Shields Implements Markit EDM to Support Data Management
MacKay Shields, a US-based investment firm owned by New York Life Investment Management and with over $70 billion in assets under management, has selected Markit EDM’s data management solution to manage the collection and distribution of data across its investment management systems. Markit won the deal in a competitive selection process and is working with…