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Sacombank has Successfully Deployed Oracle Exadata Database Machine in Vietnam

Sacombank, one of Vietnam’s commercial banks, announced its successful deployment of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, allowing the bank to benefit from the solution’s predictive analytics to make strategic business decisions in real time. This is the first Oracle Exadata Database Machine to be deployed in Vietnam. The solution provides data warehousing, integrated with Oracle Business…

State Street Report Highlights the Evolving Nature of Data Management and IT Within Financial Institutions

Global custodian State Street has released the first in a series of white papers examining the impact of technology on financial services, which (among other things) highlights the evolution of the IT and data management functions. Referring to the “true value of data”, the paper highlights the importance that data management and IT has taken…

New Sybase Streaming Capability Conquers Challenges Facing Trade and Risk Analytics in Capital Markets

Sybase, Inc., an SAP company and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced the scheduled release of new and ground-breaking functionality connecting Sybase Replication Server to Sybase Aleri Streaming Platform. This new functionality will provide the capability for data events from heterogeneous databases to be propagated in real-time, via CEP, addressing key challenges…

CFTC Proposes New Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements for Pre-Enactment and Transition Swaps

In line with the Dodd Frank Act’s crackdown on the derivatives markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed rules establishing swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements for counterparties to pre-enactment swaps (those executed prior to enactment of the Dodd Frank Act) and transition swaps (those entered into between the enactment date and the…

The Realization Group Partners with UnaVista to Deliver Post Trade Services

The Realization Group (TRG) announced today that it has selected UnaVista as a preferred partner in the TRG Post Trade Services solutions portfolio. UnaVista is the London Stock Exchange’s secure hosted platform for all validation, matching and reconciliation needs. UnaVista offers a number of solutions including Post Trade services, Data Solutions and Reconciliations. TRG have…

Euroclear UK & Ireland Slashes Fund Transaction Reconciliation Fees

Euroclear UK & Ireland’s charges to fund promoters for processing reconciliation messages emanating from the fund distributor community have been lowered substantially, with immediate effect. Fund promoters that receive fund distributor data requests concerning fund unit balances for reconciliation purposes (known as reconciliation messages) will be charged GBP 1.00 for the first 250 messages per…

Ex-GoldenSource Exec Raeves Joins TowerGroup as Post-trade Focused Research Director

Following his departure from EDM vendor GoldenSource at the end of last year, ex-senior vice president of strategic business development and marketing Gert Raeves has surfaced at analyst firm TowerGroup as a research director in the capital markets team. Raeves, who has been a frequent speaker on the data management circuit, will now be covering…

ISDA Announces New Commitments to Global Supervisors to Help Make OTC Derivatives Markets Safe and Efficient

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) jointly submitted a letter with market participants and industry associations to global supervisors. The letter is the seventh in a series that publicly details the industry’s roadmap for making the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets safe and efficient. It outlines commitments to improve four key areas: increasing standardisation;…

PaceMetrics’ Giblin Discusses Op Efficiency Focused Partnership with BPM Provider Nimbus

EDM solution vendor PaceMetrics has this month signed a non-exclusive partnership agreement with business process management (BPM) solution vendor Nimbus to tie the former’s PaceMaker solution to the latter’s Nimbus Control solution. Gerry Giblin, CEO of PaceMetrics, explains that the two vendors have been working together over the last six months to develop the partnership,…

Fiera Sceptre Selects B-One Solution for Performance, Risk Attribution and GIPS Compliancy

BI-SAM today announced that Fiera Sceptre has selected its B-One platform for performance, risk measurement and attribution, thereby becoming the group’s first Canadian client. Fiera Sceptre was formed by the merger of Sceptre Investment Counsel Limited and Fiera Capital Inc in August 2010. Fiera Capital had been approached by BI-SAM in early 2010, before its…