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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS 2013 – On LEI and Other Data Management Challenges

Data management is critical to the challenges facing financial services and capital markets participants. Across the board, from meeting increasing regulation and getting in line behind the forthcoming legal entity identifier (LEI) to enhancing transparency and risk management, data management is key. It features in many of the issues we have covered over the past…

Wolters Kluwer Integrates Acquisitions to Deliver Single Platform Risk and Compliance Solutions

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ decision to abandon the brand names of FRSGlobal, which it acquired in September 2010, and FinArch, which it acquired in July 2012, marks a major step forward in the company’s work to integrate the acquisitions’ products to form a combined offering driven by a single business oriented data architecture. The product…

Basel Committee Publishes Definitive Principles for Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published ‘Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting’, a final document based on an earlier version of the principles issued in June 2012 for consultative purposes. The document includes 14 principles grouped into four headline topics and states that global systemically important banks (G-Sibs) should start…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Billion Dollar Startup

Last year was a busy year from Standard & Poor’s, or at least for the part of Standard & Poor’s that is now known as S&P Capital IQ. President Lou Eccleston – who cut his teeth in our industry as part of the core management team of Bloomberg, where he headed sales for many years…

Volksbank Employs MXG Team for Misys to Murex Migration

Volksbank ?sterreich is working with Murex system integrator MXG Team to migrate its trading and risk management activities from Misys Summit and Kondor+ platforms to a single Murex 3.1 MXpress platform. Phase 1 of the project was completed at the end of November 2012 and migrated a Summit front-to-back office system to the Murex platform…

Australia’s ASIC Taps First Derivatives Big Data Solution for Market Surveillance

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)’s selection of First Derivatives’ Delta Stream+ Market Surveillance solution is aimed at giving the regulator the same kinds of tools available to high frequency traders for monitoring market activity and identifying possible fraudulent behaviour. The deployment of Delta Stream+ is seen as an early application of big data…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Stirred, Not Shaken

David Craig isn’t an actor who plays James Bond (that’s Daniel Craig). Nor, for that matter, is he a soul singer from Southampton (that’s Craig David). Rather, he’s the president of Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk, the former Thomson Reuters Markets. As part of a full-scale reorganisation of Thomson Reuters that established four client-defined business…

Gonet&Cie Automates Credit Ratings with S&P Capital IQ’s XpressFeed

S&P Capital IQ has named Swiss private bank Gonet&Cie as its first European customer to automate Standard & Poor’s credit ratings through the use of its XpressFeed enterprise data feed. The S&P ratings were added to the feed in June 2012 and have already won towards 30 subscribers in the Americas and Asia-Pacific. S&P Capital…

Gjensidige Selects Moody’s Analytics’ RiskIntegrity Solvency II Solution

Norwegian insurance company Gjensidige is working with Moody’s Analytics’ RiskIntegrity Solvency II solution to improve risk management and support compliance with the forthcoming regulation. The company chose RiskIntegrity on the strength of its out-of-the-box regulatory capabilities and ease of use. Thomas Bichard-Breaud, leader of Gjensidige’s Solvency II reporting, explains: “Moody’s Analytics offered us the best…

Bloomberg’s Secunda Cites Enterprise Products and Solutions Business as the Way Forward

Tom Secunda, founding partner and global head of financial products and services at Bloomberg, cantered through a brief history of technology and made a foray into the future at last week’s Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit in London before delivering the Bloomberg message that the world has changed but is providing opportunities that were unimaginable two…