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BIS Working Paper Highlights the Challenges in Data Aggregation for Systemic Risk Monitoring
The current regulatory focus on improving the monitoring of systemic risk at a global level is certainly a laudable aim, but the practical reality of drawing together a unified database that provides risk exposure data at an industry wide level is easier said than done. A recent Bank for International Settlements (BIS) working paper, written…
Accenture’s Five Steps to Data Analytics Heaven
Given the regulatory attention being directed at the industry’s dealings with its data fundamentals (see the host of recent reference data related fines and proposals for the establishment of data utilities for proof), it is no surprise that consultants have been quick to highlight other industries from which the financial services industry can learn a…
IOSCO Publishes Principles on Cross Border Supervisory Cooperation, Including Proactive Data Sharing Requirements
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a set of Principles Regarding Cross-Border Supervisory Cooperation developed by its Technical Committee’s Task Force on Supervisory Cooperation, which recommends a more proactive approach to data sharing between regulators. The recommendations include the ability for regulators to obtain information from third party jurisdictions at will in…
EDM Council Marks Milestones in Membership and Data Management Maturity
The Enterprise Data Management Council, a not-for-profit business forum created by the financial industry to address the issues and challenges associated with managing data content as a business and operational priority, today announced that it had reached a membership milestone of 50 member companies with the addition of nine new members in 2010. The rapid…
Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform Embraces Real-Time and Non-Real-Time Data
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a ‘joined up’ approach to enterprise data management, creating a platform framework that embraces both real-time and non-real-time data. The so-called Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform draws on the long-serving front-office Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) that supports real time data, the existing securities master product, Reuters Reference Data System (RRDS), and…
Cadis Heads to Australia with BTIM Signing
Top Australian fund manager BT Investment Management (BTIM) has selected Cadis to build its centralised data management platform. Phil Stockwell, chief operating officer, BTIM said, “This is the first step to building a long term enterprise data management capability, enabling business growth, improving operational efficiency and providing quality data to support our investment teams.” The…
Video: Gert Raeves from Goldensource Talks about Counterparty Risk
A-Team Group’s President and Editor-in-Chief, Andrew Delaney, talks to Gert Raeves, SVP Strategic Business Development, GoldenSource, about living wills and other themes discussed at A-Team’s recent Counterparty Risk event, sponsored by GoldenSource, Interactive Data and Avox. Video of 11924365
PaceMetrics’ Giblin and Boon Talk up the Benefits of a Lean EDM Model
It may have been a quiet start for PaceMetrics in the enterprise data management (EDM) space when it bagged its first EDM client back in 2004, but the vendor is hoping to raise its profile in the space over the course of this year, according to CEO Gerry Giblin and director of global sales and…
SAS Focuses on Risk Data Integration, GRC and High Performance Risk in 2010, Says Rogers
Following the signing of a partnership agreement with derivatives analytics vendor Fincad at the start of this year, SAS has been steadily investing in its overall risk solution set over the course of the last five months, including adding more credit scoring capabilities to its SAS Risk Management for Banking. David Rogers, SAS global product…
Adepa Selects StatPro in Luxembourg First
StatPro Group, a provider of portfolio analysis and asset evaluation services for the global asset management industry, today announces that Adepa Asset Management in Luxembourg has signed a contract for components of Seven, StatPro’s new SaaS system aimed at performance and risk specialists in large asset managers. Adepa is the leading Spanish provider in Luxembourg…