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S&P Capital IQ Supports Credit Risk Assessment with Additional Platform Tools
S&P Capital IQ will go live with a suite of credit risk assessment tools on its online research, data and news platform on Monday, April 29. The credit risk tools are designed to help assess rated and unrated public and private companies and support activities including peer analytics, portfolio reviews and counterparty credit assessments. They…
Quantifi Stresses Data Management Requirement for Basel III Credit Risk
Quantifi has built out its counterparty credit risk platform to meet the capital requirements of Basel III. But the company warns that data aggregation and management coupled to a centralised approach to the regulation are essential to full compliance and managing the cost of capital. Basel III regulation was finalised in June 2011 and will…
Financial Stability Board Suggests Centralised Trade Data Aggregation System for OTC Derivatives Market
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is addressing issues of data aggregation for regulatory purposes in the OTC derivatives market with the suggestion of ‘a centralised or other mechanism to produce and share global aggregated data as a complement to the direct access by the different authorities to data held by trade repositories’. The FSB notes…
Fenergo Tackles the Compliance Issues of Client Onboarding
Fenergo, a provider of customer lifecycle management software, lambasts the state of financial institutions’ client onboarding in a recently published white paper, but also proposes solutions to the inherent onboarding problems of data management and evolving regulation. The white paper – entitled ‘Client Onboarding: Solving the Challenges, Maximising the Opportunities’, researched with New York-based banking…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Doing the DMS Rounds
Such was the success of our Data Management Summit last month that I have had my arm severely twisted and – under duress – have agreed to host another event in the autumn. We’ll be holding DMS – same time, same place – on October 3, so if you missed us last time around you’ll…
Aktia Retail Bank Selects SunGard Ambit Solution for Capital Management
Finnish retail bank Aktia is extending its use of SunGard’s Ambit risk and performance management solutions with the addition of Ambit Capital Management. The capital management application will replace a legacy vendor system, automate previously manual processes and deliver greater transparency and visibility of capital across the bank’s predominantly retail lending business. Aktia already uses…
Mediobanca Implements Xenomorph’s TimeScape as a Data Management Solution for Risk
Italian investment bank Mediobanca has selected Xenomorph’s TimeScape to support its risk management processes with automated data validation and improved data quality. As well as delivering the improved data to its back and middle offices, the bank plans delivery to the front office where the data will be used to test new ideas for trading…
GoldenSource Extends Enterprise Data Management Solution to Include LEI
GoldenSource has enabled its enterprise data management (EDM) software to support legal entity identifiers (LEIs), but notes that early users are seeking point solutions to address tax requirements including the LEI rather than addressing the LEI as a means of gaining a consistent and accurate view of clients and counterparties that can improve onboarding and…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Back to the (Valuations) Grind
Back from a quick break in Bordeaux – well, Perigord – to the Spring term of 2013, and back to the thorny issue of valuations, the subject of our forthcoming special report and webinar combination next Tuesday April 9. (If you haven’t registered yet you can do so here). Back in November 2011, I posted…
Mizuho International Builds on Relationship with Wolters Kluwer for Basel III Reporting
Mizuho International, the London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Financial Group, is building on an existing regulatory data management relationship with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services to meet the needs of Basel III reporting. The bank has licensed Wolters Kluwer’s Basel III compliant common reporting (CoRep), financial reporting (FinRep) and liquidity coverage ratio modules…