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A-Team Video with Eccleston on S&P Capital IQ’s Vision for R2, QuantHouse and CMA in 2013 – and Beyond
Lou Eccleston, President of S&P Capital IQ, talks to A-Team’s Andrew Delaney about the company’s recent spate of corporate acquisitions, which saw the addition of risk specialist R2, ultra low-latency data provider QuantHouse and OTC derivatives valuations provider CMA. Eccleston explains the rationale behind each of the transactions, and presents his vision for combining the three…
Fenergo Enhances Client & Counterparty Data Management Solution to Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Fenergo, a provider of customer lifecycle management software, has extended the model of its Client & Counterparty Data Management solution to capture and manage additional reference data that is essential for compliance with regulations such as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), Dodd-Frank, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Markets in Financial Instruments…
Interactive Data Adds Extensible Service for Financial Transaction Tax
Interactive Data has added a data service to support the identification of instruments liable for French and Italian financial transaction taxes (FTTs). The service shifts the burden of maintaining and updating lists of securities that fall within the scope of transaction tax in each jurisdiction from financial firms to Interactive Data, and is ready to…
Data Management Summit – Regulation is a Game Changer for Reference Data
Regulation has become a game-changer for many financial firms as regulators look beyond reports and demand access to detailed data that must be accurate and complete in a regime of zero regulatory tolerance. Introducing a panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit entitled Enterprise Data Management Business and Regulatory Drivers, A-Team Group…
Data Management Summit – Emerging Technologies Deliver Business Benefits
Big data, cloud computing, the semantic web, big meta data, logical data models and in-memory analytics featured in a debate about emerging technologies for enterprise architecture at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. Colin Gibson, head of data architecture, markets and international banking at the Royal Bank of Scotland set the scene describing data…
Data Management Summit – Solving the Onshore or Offshore Conundrum
Christopher Bannocks, global head of reference data at Barclays Bank, detailed the pros and cons of offshoring and onshoring data management at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit, concluding that value creation rather than cost arbitrage has become the decider on where work should be placed. He also fired a shot across the bows…
Data Management Summit – Paolo Mittiga Maps the Road Ahead
Paolo Mittiga, data management domain partner at Wipro Technologies, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit (DMS) outlining a future of data management that will focus on the legal entity and real-time access to all data and be underpinned by technologies including semantic logic and dynamic ontology. Mittiga was welcomed…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Morning After the Night Before
Even if I say so myself, our Data Management Summit in London on Tuesday was a knockout event. It felt just right: all the right people were there, meeting with the right contacts. It had an intimate feel, even though it was heaving. And everyone learned a lot from the compelling presentations and discussions. We’ll…
Outsourcing Reference Data Management
The past 12 months has seen the emergence of new players offering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services for Reference Data Management. These new arrivals expand the range of options available to financial institutions for addressing the challenges of regulatory compliance, operational cost reduction and scalability. But BPO has other benefits, and innovative adopters have benefited…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Fever
It’s finally here…. Our Data Management Summit takes place in London next Tuesday, March 12. It’s taken a lot of begging, bribing and cajoling, but I think I can say that we’ve got the best possible line-up for the event. In short, for anyone in the reference / risk / enterprise and related technologies space,…