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Stuart Guinness to join Credit Suisse as Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific
Credit Suisse announced today Stuart Guinness will join Credit Suisse as a Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific in the Asset Management Division, effective November 3, 2011. He will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Neil Harvey, Head of Asia Pacific and Head of Emerging Markets globally and Sudip Thakor,…
Big Data Solutions Tackle the Challenges of Increasing Regulation
The introduction of 70 capital markets regulations in Europe over the next 18 months and the addition of about 300 regulations in the US are driving the need for big data solutions that can deliver on-demand risk and business analytics reports, more granular risk management and the ability to combine unstructured data behind products such…
Managing Data Technology Remains a Challenges at Enterprise Level, DMRAV Delegates Told
Proving return on investment (ROI) while attempting to take an incremental approach to enterprise data management projects remains a significant challenge for managers seeking sign-off for EDM projects, delegates at A-Team’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations conference in London heard. According to panellists on the event’s discussion on ‘Technology Challenges of Building an…
Sybase’s Grant Highlights the Need for More Data Creation at Source
Rather than relying on data from external sources, firms should instead aim to create it from source documents, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development director for financial services at risk management solution vendor Sybase, during this afternoon’s keynote speech. Speaking to attendees at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London,…
Collaboration is Key to Resolving Data Issues Raised by Regulation
Financial institutions must collaborate to meet incoming regulatory requirements that challenge enterprise data management (EDM), according to a panel of industry experts assessing the impact of regulations on data management at today’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations Conference in London. Chairing the panel, Reference Data Review set the scene of incoming regulations requiring…
On Demand Analytics Have Become Increasingly Important, Says Sybase’s Grant
Regulatory and business pressures are driving firms to invest in risk management functionality such as on demand analytics capabilities, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development manager for financial services at Sybase, during his keynote speech at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London. There has been a serious increase in…
SCOR Global Investments Selects Cadis to Optimise Operational Efficiency
SCOR Global Investments (SGI), the investment management company of the SCOR Group, a global reinsurance company headquartered in Paris, has selected Cadis to implement its data management strategy. SCOR’s investment portfolio amounted to EUR 12.1 billion in June 2011. Cadis will be taking in data from multiple sources including Bloomberg, Interactive Data and EFA-European Fund…
Data Integration and Emerging Technologies Offer Beneficial Opportunities
Data integration and the adoption of technologies including data location aware computation, in database analytics and event stream processing will improve analytics, reduce decision making time and, in turn, contribute to cutting the costs associated with duplicated data. Addressing the issue of integrating data for high compute enterprise analytics, a panel discussion at A-Team Group’s…
Virginie’s Blog – Musical Chairs
It seems that 2011 has been another year filled with management shakeups, M&A activity and high profile exits and entrances within the vendor and practitioner communities. EDM solution vendors and data vendors in particular seem to have engaged in an ongoing game of musical chairs, not least of which has been the continued reshuffling at…
Asset Control’s Lynch Discusses Ongoing Hiring Strategy, Gibbins’ Recent Appointment
Earlier this week, EDM vendor Asset Control announced that it had brought on board ex-Microsoft exec Brooks Gibbins to take on responsibility for its product management, corporate strategy and business development across all of its solutions. Phil Lynch, CEO and president at the vendor, explains that the appointment of Gibbins fits into Asset Control’s aim…