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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations (Part 3)
Pressing on with our investigation of how high-yield corporate credit asset classes can best be valued and following discussion around leveraged loans and collateralised loan obligations over the past couple of weeks, our focus this week is on high-yield corporate bonds. In the third of a series of three webinars – published by A-Team and…
Temenos Rebrands ProDB as DataSource, Launches Packaged Data Management Solutions
Temenos has rebranded its ProDB enterprise data management solution as Temenos DataSource and set out a strategy to deliver pre-packaged data management solutions aimed at easing banks’ pain points. The solutions will combine the Temenos metadata model and rules engine with a financial instruments data model (FIDM) developed by Geneva-based Ecofin. The first packaged solution…
Xenomorph Lifts TimeScape into the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
Xenomorph has deployed its TimeScape analytics and data management solution in Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud, offering existing and potential users of the software an alternative to on-site installation. Some existing TimeScape users are expected to migrate to the cloud, while new customers can take immediate advantage of the short implementation time and reduced costs of…
Contextualising Your Data
By Simon Smith, Granger Smith Consultingwww.grangersmithconsulting.com The ever growing amount of digital data available poses a real challenge to current search solutions, because they could potentially lack relevance, timeliness and adaptability. BI systems have traditionally focused upon structured data, for example; costs, margins and sales, and it is now becoming essential for a reporting tool…
Eagle Enhances Software to Support Legal Entity Identifiers and Cleared Swaps
BNY Mellon subsidiary Eagle Investment Systems has stepped up to the regulatory plate with a release of its portfolio management platform to support accommodate entity identifiers (LEIs) and enhancements to its investment accounting solution to support the processing of swaps that are cleared in line with Dodd-Frank legislation. The company started to consider client needs…
Paladyne Systems Extends Implementation at First Customer GoldenTree Asset Management
GoldenTree Asset Management, the first customer to implement Paladyne Systems’ Analytics Master data aggregation, reporting and reconciliation software back in 2006 is nearing the end of an 18-month project to build a central data warehouse for its applications using version 8.0 of the software. According to Steven Lamm, head of application support and data management…
Thomson Reuters Adds Data Management Solution for Fatca Compliance
Thomson Reuters is making a second foray into the market for Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) compliance solutions with a data management product designed to help financial institutions identify and tag securities that are subject to Fatca regulation and those that are exempt or, in Fatca terms, grandfathered obligations. The company made its first…
GoldenSource Responds to Market Interest in Financial Industry Business Ontology
The decision by GoldenSource to map its enterprise data management (EDM) solution to the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) signals initial industry take up of the semantic standard, which GoldenSource suggests could go as far as becoming a regulatory requirement for reporting. FIBO is an initiative of the EDM Council and describes in business terms…
Wipro Pumps $30 Million Into Opera Solutions
Indian IT heavyweight Wipro has invested $30 million in New Jersey-based predictive analytics specialist Opera Solutions. It’s unclear what this values Opera at, but Wipro’s investment is a minority stake. Opera’s offerings include its cloud-based Signal Hub range. Signals are predictive patterns and anomalies in big data sets. Signal Hubs are domain-specific collections of Signals…
Bayer Implements SunGard Adaptiv Solutions to Support Risk Management
Germany’s Bayer AG has implemented a selection of SunGard’s Adaptiv solutions for risk management to ensure it meets the fair value accounting mandates of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS 13) and is ready to comply with European Market Infrastructure Regulation that is expected to come into force later this year. The German enterprise that…