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How Knowledge Graphs Can Deliver Insights When Integrating Decentralised Data

The majority of large data integration projects falter because systems are developed in a bespoke fashion, leaving organisations with critical applications that have been modified and transformed into a hornet’s nest of code that they cannot unravel for fear of breaking something. So, instead of trying to unravel systems, organisations have tended to duplicate processes,…

Corporate Actions a Challenge? Join Next Week’s A-Team Group Webinar to Find Solutions

Demand for timely and accurate corporate actions data is increasing as the complexity and volumes of events continues to rise, and financial institutions acknowledge the costly gap between accurate corporate actions processing in real, or near-real, time and faulty processing caused by poor data and resulting in missed opportunities to optimise revenue. While many firms…

SGX Partners DataBP to Power Own Brand Market Data Licensing and Usage Portal

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has partnered DataBP, provider of a market data administration platform and services for exchanges, index and data providers, to use the latter’s platform and commercial expertise to roll out SGX Data Direct, an SGX-branded online portal for data licensing and usage reporting powered by DataBP. SGX joins a community of exchanges using…

Baillie Gifford Selects FINBOURNE LUSID as IBOR for Global Investment Operations

Baillie Gifford, a global investment partnership headquartered in Edinburgh, has selected FINBOURNE Technology’s investment data management platform, LUSID, as the Investment Book of Record (IBOR) for its global investment operations. The platform will deliver a consolidated source of real-time investment data across Baillie Gifford’s equity, fixed income and multi-asset portfolios as part of its drive…

B2B Data Marketplaces and Beyond

Financial institutions and corporations often generate huge quantities of data as a by product of their core activities. This data – details of historical transactions, customer interactions and metadata for referring to instruments, counterparties or entities – can provide valuable insights for industry participants, and form the basis of a meaningful data sales business. But…

DSB Call for Industry Feedback on UPI Legal Terms and Conditions Consultation

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has opened a consultation on the legal terms and conditions, and client support model, expected to apply to users of the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) Service, due to launch next year. The consultation sets out a range of proposals aimed to align with industry feedback for the DSB to support…

IHS Markit Releases Automated Onboarding Platform for Fund Managers and Administrators

IHS Markit has released Investor Onboarding, a fully hosted, digital onboarding platform enabling firms to automate, integrate and centralise onboarding and compliance obligations, while simplifying and accelerating the onboarding experience for investors. The platform allows users to input data once, creating a golden source that populates multiple forms, including subscription agreements and tax forms. Data…

How Easy Access to Trusted Data Drives Operational Efficiency for Finance Firms

By Neil Sandle, Head of Product Management, Alveo. Today, we’re seeing rapid growth in data volumes and in data diversity within financial services firms. Different trends contribute to this growth of available data across the sector. One driver is that firms need to disclose more in order to comply with the continuing push towards regulatory…

CUSIP Global Services seeks new owner as regulator requires S&P Global to divest the company to progress merger with IHS Markit

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) is looking for a new owner following the European Commission’s phase one approval of the $44 billion merger of S&P Global and IHS Markit. While the merger will create a financial data and analytics powerhouse large enough to challenge market leaders Bloomberg and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), including Refinitiv,…

RIMES plans to pair cloud native data management platform with managed data services post acquisition of Matrix IDM

RIMES has stated its intention to acquire Matrix IDM, a Sydney, Australia-based provider of a cloud native investment data management platform. The combination of RIMES’ managed data services and the Matrix IDM platform will help asset owners, institutional investors and asset managers solve increasingly complex data problems and make better informed investment decisions. The deal…