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Annaly Capital Management Implements CuriumEDM to Drive Efficiency and Transparency

Annaly Capital Management, a New York based diversified capital manager, has implemented Curium Data System’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution as part of a multi-phased technology initiative designed to drive operational efficiencies and promote transparency across the company’s platform. Don Choe, chief technology officer at Annaly, says the firm evaluated numerous master data management products…

Refinitiv Puts Data and Compute in the Cloud to Deliver PRIIPs Compliance Service

Refinitiv is building out cloud capability by providing a menu of data and services that breaks down its traditional product outlook. Clients can select the capabilities and content they need, compute is performed in the cloud, and longer term, cloud is expected to unlock some of the costs of platforms, people and processes. An example…

Addressing the Challenges and Realising the Benefits of a ‘Cloud First’ Policy

By Andy Mather, European Financial Services Industry Specialist, Telstra. The move to a ‘cloud first’ policy by financial firms is a tantalising idea. After all, which chief technology officer wouldn’t want to seriously reduce their company’s on-premise compute and storage costs, while at the same time boosting agility and ability to profit from new, innovative,…

Asset Control Puts AC PaSS Managed Services Solution in Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Asset Control has made its managed services solution, AC Platform as a Scalable Service (AC PaSS), available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace having achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud status. The company confirmed its commitment to offer managed services earlier this year and is offering AC PaSS as a means for financial services organisations to achieve cost…

Excel in Data Management – Why it Still Has a Role to Play

By: Martijn Groot, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Asset Control. In the world of technology infrastructure, Microsoft Excel is often seen as both a blessing and a curse. That its usage remains so widespread today is testament to the power of the tool, as well as the quality of the marketing and distribution that…

Data Governance a Top 2019 Priority, Says Syncsort

According to a new survey from Syncsort, a US-based provider of Big Iron (aka mainframes) to Big Data software, many firms are still struggling to make data accessible and get value from it, with 68% of respondents reporting that siloed data negatively impacts their organization. The 2019 Data Trends survey found that most IT departments…

Limited In-House Skills Drive Financial Services Firms to Focus on Outsourcing

Financial services firms continue to play into the move to outsource technology services, citing their reasons as a preference to use qualified experts with industry knowledge, limited skills in the market, and cost efficiency. According to research commissioned by Asset Control, 49% of senior decision makers in financial services organisations listed ‘we prefer to use…

Recorded Webinar: Listen to two buy-side CDOs discussing how to get data management right

Is your firm struggling to get cost-efficient data management in place to meet both strategy and regulatory requirements? Could innovative data management help to deliver much-needed business growth at your firm? Are you short of resources and skills to implement best practice data management? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you…

Mizuho International Implements Asset Control’s AC Plus for IPV and Broader Data Management

Mizuho International, the London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Financial Group, has implemented Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform to meet its needs for independent price verification (IPV) and broader data management. The Asset Control platform was selected following a rigorous selection process and replaces another third-party solution. Mark Gardner, head of…

IHS Markit Dedicates 2019 to Customer Experience, Data Science and Technology Development

IHS Markit is playing into the need for change in data management with a focus on customer experience, strength in data science, cloud hosted services, alternative data and a three-year roadmap that will enhance the technology underpinning its enterprise data management solution, IHS Markit EDM. It is also taking advantage of opportunities in the buy-side,…