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Swift Builds Out Financial Crime Compliance Business with KYC Data Utility

Swift is pushing into compliance services for financial crime regulation with a dedicated business unit that is offering a Know Your Customer (KYC) data utility and planning additional solutions including business intelligence tools for regulatory compliance. A pilot of the Swift KYC Registry went live this week with a group of Swift member banks. The…

Opinion: Dangerous Data

By Philippe Verriest, Director, Euroclear Data is a vital component of our capital markets. Ensure this data is accurate, and you have a solid basis from which to make considered business decisions. Get it wrong and you risk contaminating many parts of the transaction chain. If there is one lesson that the global financial crisis…

Sapient Global Services Brings Close of Business Reporting Service to Market

Sapient Global Markets has responded to the need for commodity solutions for non-core operations with a managed end-of-day reporting service called Close of Business Service, or CoBS. The service is designed to help firms reduce reporting complexity and cost, and improve risk control and profit predictability. The service has been in use by a handful…

Xenomorph Builds Out TimeScape with Aqumin Visual Data Landscapes

Xenomorph continues to build out its TimeScape risk analysis and data management platform with the integration of Aqumin’s AlphaVision visual data landscape environment. The company has offered TimeScape with integrated data charts and 3D graphs for about 18 months, but in search of a more sophisticated visual data solution for large, real-time datasets, looked across…

BBVA Selects Markit EDM as a Central Hub for its Enterprise Data

BBVA Asset Management has selected Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform to centralise and streamline its data. Markit secured the contract after a competitive selection process including workshops and a final proof of concept. The platform will replace a mix of point-to-point and in-house developed data management solutions and will act as a central hub…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: To Utility and Beyond!

Another penny has dropped in the onward march toward outsourced enterprise data management. UBS’s decision last month to outsource its securities reference data to iGate, which is using Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution – the former Cadis Software – to manage the data, fulfils a strategic intent to industrialise processes where possible. Perhaps more…

Debate Argues the Case for an Investment Book of Records

Vendors have begun to develop Investment Book of Record (IBOR) solutions and in-house teams are beginning to build them, but issues around what an IBOR should look like, how it should work and whether it will deliver benefits remain open to question. Ian Hunt, a consultant and subject matter expert working with M&G Investment Management…

Fitch Solutions Extends its Use of LEIs and Monitors Global Adoption

Fitch Solutions has extended its adoption of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by adding the codes to unrated entities. The company has been adding pre-LEI codes to Fitch rated issuers and debt issues since early this year and is making all its LEI data available on the Fitch Ratings website and in its data feed products,…

SIX Financial Information Takes Solvency II Compliance Solution to Market

SIX Financial Information has brought together the reference data requirements of Solvency II to deliver a compliance service that is available immediately and is being implemented with initial insurance clients ahead of take-up among asset managers. The service uses reference data already owned by SIX Financial Information as well as some new attributes. These include…

OpenGamma Includes Redis In-Memory Technology in Margining Platform

OpenGamma has the Redis in-memory data management technology with its own analytics and risk engine to create a margining platform offering. The new platform is designed to support fast and precise calculations, allowing clearing members to meet the initial margin calculation requirements of central counterparties on OTC swap transactions. OpenGamma developed the new margining platform…