Data Management Insight Data Delivery Platforms, Cloud & Managed Services The latest content from across the platform
Asset Control Sees Broadening of Data Management Requirement in Japan
Asset Control’s decision to open an office in Tokyo – announced today – stems from a heightened level of interest both from the Japanese financial centre’s major banking institutions and the key service agents that provide trading-related capabilities to much of the domestic market. The data management platform provider has announced plans to bolster its…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: ReferenceDataReview 2.0
In case you hadn’t already noticed, we used our Data Management Summit on May 22 to introduce our new ReferenceDataReview.com website. We officially relaunched RDR – which we first introduced back in 2003, when reference data was no more than a twinkle in the financial data segment’s eye – last week. The response so far…
Bloomberg Coup as it Hires NYSE Technologies’ CEO to Spearhead Enterprise
In a coup for Bloomberg, the vendor has appointed Stanley Young, who was until very recently the CEO of NYSE Technologies, as head of the Bloomberg Enterprise Products and Solutions Division. Young’s jumping ship to Bloomberg is a blow to NYSE Euronext but another sign of Bloomberg’s serious intent to develop the enterprise area, coming…
BTG Pactual Transforms Data Management with Asset Control’s AC Plus
Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual is implementing Asset Control’s AC Plus data management solution to optimise data and risk management ahead of a major push into international markets. The implementation of the data management system, one of the first in Latin America, is under way with a deadline to finish the initial stage of the…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Grid, Big Data and Hadoop Lead March of Emerging Technologies
A round-up of emerging technologies at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit found industry experts favouring grid and big data technologies as they strive to architect the data management platforms of the future. A panel discussion moderated by A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney looked first at big data, how it is perceived and managed, and…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Three Reasons to Be (Cheerful) at DMS
It’s taken a full week to recover from our Data Management Summit last week. More than 200 London market practitioners gathered to hear from a formidable cast of reference data and enterprise infrastructure characters. It was an action-packed day, with plenty of news you can use (or could, if you were there), earnest discussion, and…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Regulation and Business Mix as Drivers for On-Demand Risk Analytics Development
Regulation is driving change in the financial services industry, not least in the area of risk analysis where on-demand reporting is becoming a regulatory requirement as well as a management need and potential business opportunity. In response to regulatory change, the deployment of technology is changing, but what are the outcomes and how can financial…
A-Team Data Management Summit: Proliferation of Entity and Securities Identifiers Adds to Data Management Burden
Legal entity and securities identifiers have hit the headlines over past months, but their value to the financial industry and how they will be used remains uncertain. Leading an industry panel at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit, A-Team Group editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney asked panellists for their views on securities identifiers, particularly legal entity identifiers…
Bloomberg to Launch EDM Service on Back of PolarLake Acquisition
Bloomberg’s surprise acquisition of Dublin-based enterprise data management specialist PolarLake is aimed at creating a central data validation utility for pricing, reference data and corporate actions. The deal follows Markit’s surprise acquisition of Cadis Software earlier this month – reputedly for a nine-figure sum – and Thomson Reuters’ decision to quit the enterprise data platform…
Stop Press: Thomson Reuters Drops Enterprise Data Management Platform
In the same week that Markit announced plans to acquire Cadis, rival data vendor Thomson Reuters has confirmed plans to exit the enterprise data management platform business. The company has decided to withdraw its Enterprise Platform for Data Management product, and will focus instead on enterprise content in the form of pricing, valuations, corporate actions…