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Virginie’s Blog – Making Threats and Opportunities
This week’s FIMA conference in London as usual saw industry practitioners discussing their recurring bugbears – IP rights within the vendor community, a lack of budget for more strategic data management projects (outside of those tied to compliance) and coping with the cost cutting exercises sweeping the financial services community – but it also involved…
GoldenSource’s Engdahl Elaborates on M&G Investments’ Platform Upgrade
Earlier this week, GoldenSource indicated that longstanding client M&G Investments has upgraded its implementation of the EDM vendor’s platform. Steve Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy at the vendor, explains how the upgrade fitted into M&G’s Solvency II compliance preparations. The European asset management firm first bought the GoldenSource solution back in 2003 in…
M&G Upgrades GoldenSource EDM Platform
M&G Investments (M&G), one of Europe’s leading investment managers with £200 billion of assets under management, completed an upgrade to GoldenSource EDM version 8 in May 2011. Along with the upgrade, M&G extended GoldenSource’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform to utilize the derivatives capabilities, doubling instrument volumes and delivering trusted, consistent information to power key…
Fiserv Names Cheryl Nash President, Investment Services
Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Cheryl Nash has been named President of its Investment Services division. With 28 years of service with Investment Services at Fiserv, Nash brings a strong track record of industry leadership, technology expertise and commitment to serving clients to this role. She has…
Andrew’s Blog – Bring In the Stormtroopers
More fall-out, it seems, from the ongoing restructuring at Thomson Reuters in the wake of former Markets head Devin Wenig’s resignation in the summer, this time within the Enterprise group. Enterprise chief Jon Robson this week announced the departures of enterprise data management head Sally Hinds and trade and risk chief Andy White, with their…
PolarLake and Capgemini Form Alliance for Financial Services
The Financial Services Global Business Unit of Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and PolarLake, a leading software vendor providing a platform for Reference Data Management (RDM) and distribution for financial institutions, today announced they have entered into an alliance to improve comprehensive enterprise data management for financial…
SIX Telekurs & Eagle Investment Systems Deliver Enhanced Data Management Solutions
To showcase its newly enhanced interface with Eagle Investment Systems, SIX Telekurs is pleased to be a “Gold” sponsor of the 2011 Eagle Client Conference. Eagle’s Data Integration Services and SIX Telekurs have worked together to map the SIX Telekurs flagship Valordata Feed (VDF) to Eagle’s data management platform. Eagle is an advanced solution that…
Multifonds Strengthens Asian Team with Two New Hires
Multifonds, a leader in single-platform multi-jurisdictional investment fund software, has hired Chee Seng Lok as business development manager, and Andy Chua as regional product manager, bolstering its Asian division. Based in Singapore, they will be working together with Sandra Puah who heads the Multifonds professional services team in Asia. Chee Seng and Andy’s focus will…
New Study from Broadridge Reveals Threats from Data Security Breaches in the Financial Services Industry
Do you share sensitive data with strangers? According to a Broadridge survey of over 200 executives in broker-dealer institutions more than 85 percent of respondents reported data security and the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) are under glaring scrutiny from corporate executives. Broker dealer executives face increasing challenges as they try to protect sensitive…
New Interactive Performance & Risk Reporting from BNY Mellon Improves Transparency for Institutional Investors
BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has introduced a number of enhancements to its Performance & Risk Analytics reporting that offer dynamic, new interactive capability enabling clients to customize, drill-down, and gain greater insight into their portfolio returns. The company’s new Interactive Performance Report (IPR) makes these new features available…