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SIX Financial Information Prepares Data Solution for Fatca Compliance
SIX Financial Information has joined the growing band of market data vendors preparing to meet the reference data requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). While Fatca regulation is not expected to be finalised until next year, ahead of the act coming into effect on 1 January 2014, SIX Financial Information is…
Broadridge’s Access Data Accelerates Processing with EMC Greenplum
Broadridge Financial’s Access Data unit is speeding up its data processing using EMC’s Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform. Using Greenplum, processing of a four billion record data store that once took eight hours to complete now just takes minutes, enabling Access Data to provide its clients with greater visibility into how assets are generated, allowing them…
Standard Life Takes Stealthy Approach to Building a Data Warehouse
A stealthy rather than Big Bang approach to data warehousing can meet business requirements in a timely and cost-conscious way, and lay the foundations for a scalable solution, said Jim Shaw, solutions architect at Standard Life, as he presented a case study of data warehouse development at last week’s Financial Information Management (FIMA) Conference in…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The Quiet Rebirth of Interactive Data (Part 2)
It’s well known that Interactive Data Corp. can be a relatively conservative institution. This is in part due to its valuations business, which forces it to make judgments akin to those of a ratings agency, and sometimes results in a somewhat cautious corporate approach. And so there has been a distinct lack of the kind…
Underlying Data and Overall Governance are Central to Surviving the Regulatory Tsunami
Financial services firms must tackle underlying data issues and enforce top-down governance strategies if they are to survive the regulatory tsunami, argued Anthony Kirby, director of Ernst & Young’s regulatory and risk management practice, at last week’s International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) conference in London. Addressing the operational impact of upcoming regulations,…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: AIM Takes, Erm, Aim at London
The past several months have seen a recasting of what we at A-Team loosely term the ‘next-generation enterprise data management’ segment. Specifically, we’ve seen both PolarLake and Cadis Software – both of which followed the furrow ploughed over the years by the likes of Asset Control and Goldensource – snapped up by Bloomberg and Markit….
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Enterprise Data and the Desktop
There were raised eyebrows at yesterday’s launch function for Bloomberg’s new App Portal, when enterprise chief Stanley Young described the new capability as “disruptive”. Effectively a marketplace for buying third-party applications that operate within the Bloomberg Professional desktop environment, App Portal could be viewed as nothing more as a latecomer to the third-party optional services…
Nordea Asset Management Taps Markit EDM for Security Master Management
The asset management arm of Scandinavian financial services group Nordea has implemented Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) software to master its static data. Nordea selected the Markit solution, which was acquired with Cadis Software earlier this year, after an extensive search of potential solutions and a proof of concept. An incumbent vendor solution was not…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Murdoch’s Dow Excitement
Amid the twin distractions of the two Ss – Sandy and Sibos – an innocuous Tweet by no less than Rupert Murdoch almost passed us by this week. It read: Most of this week with Dow Jones team. Exciting things coming soon. And it was accompanied by the photo above. That looks an awful lot…
Interactive Data Unveils Apex XML-Delivered Reference Data Suite
Interactive Data has responded to market demand for easy and cost-effective access to reference data with the introduction of Apex, a selection of reference data service delivery and access mechanisms including intraday data transfer, event-based messaging, web-services applications program interfaces (APIs) and a hosted managed database service. Acknowledging growing customer interest in data standards for…