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FRSGlobal Launches New Liquidity Risk Solution for Compliance with UK’s CP 08/22

Risk and regulatory reporting solution vendor FRSGlobal has launched its new Liquidity Risk solution, aimed at enabling financial institutions to meet the requirements proposed by the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) Consultation Paper (CP) 08/22. According to Thomas Brouwer, product manager at the vendor, the combined risk and regulatory platform meets its customers’ demands for…

Siperian Launches New Data Governance Application for its MDM Hub

Master data management (MDM) platform vendor Siperian has launched a new data governance application for its MDM Hub, which it says is aimed at allowing data stewards to more effectively manage and monitor master data. The solution, which it has dubbed Siperian Business Data Director, is web-based and also allows downstream data users to create…

CME Group Receives Regulatory Exemption from SEC to Launch CDS CCP in US

Following the approval and launch of IntercontinentalExchange’s (ICE) ICE Trust last week, CME Group has now announced that it has also been granted permission to operate as a clearing house and central counterparty (CCP) for credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the US. The derivatives exchange operator has received a special exemption from the Securities…

Bloor Research Profiles Data Discovery Vendors, Singles Out Rever, Trillium and CA

Consultancy firm Bloor Research has released the first of four market updates profiling the data management vendor community. The report profiles the ‘data discovery’ vendor community, which it indicates is a new sector that has distinguished itself from data profiling. Data discovery deals with: “the discovery of relationships between data elements, regardless of where the…

Opportunity Knocks for the SMB Market

By Brian Reid, managing director of The Connect Partnership IBM and Oracle products are now more affordable to the smaller and medium sized business (SMB and MMB) marketplace. The opportunity to implement best in class technical and data architecture is now an economically viable proposition for these organisations. At the recent TSAM conference on 3…

ICE US Trust Receives Regulatory Approval from Fed, Interdealer Brokers Get Annoyed, Eurex Declares Out of US

Following the announcement of its European ambitions in February, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has indicated that it has finally received regulatory approval from the board of governors of the Federal Reserve for ICE US Trust to act as a clearing house and central counterparty (CCP) for credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the US. The exchange operator…

Asset Control Adds Language Support for Asian Character Sets in AC Plus

EDM vendor Asset Control has added new localised language capabilities to its AC Plus data management software in order to support users in the Asia Pacific region. The new additions have been built upon the vendor’s AC Plus Desktop platform and allow for the processing, editing and display of multi-byte character sets, such as Han…

Buy Side Has a Long Way to go to Catch up to Sell Side in Data Management, TSAM 2009 Delegates Told

The buy side is significantly behind the sell side in terms of progress towards reaching data management nirvana, according to speakers at this week’s TSAM 2009 conference in London. Most buy side firms are lacking in data tsars or relevant executive level champions to push forward change in the area of improving data quality, delegates…

SmartCo Launches New, Faster Version of Smart Financial DataHub

Following on from its upgrade in October last year, EDM vendor SmartCo has released yet another new version of its Smart Financial DataHub (SFDH) solution, which it claims provides its clients with faster and more comprehensive market data management capabilities, additional security features and enhancements to key financial modules. Patrick Archer, SmartCo’s UK and US…

G2systems Signs Reseller Agreement with IBM for EDM Solution Optim

Software integration and implementation services vendor G2systems has signed a reseller agreement with IBM for its enterprise data management (EDM) product Optim. Under the agreement, G2systems will offer the IBM solution to its client base of hedge funds, investment firms and fund administrators. The deal is indicative of the current trend within the data management…