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SIX Partners with Crux Informatics to Streamline Data Access

Swiss financial data giant SIX has partnered with Crux Informatics to provide a brand-new managed market data solution to remove unnecessary implementation and management pressure for buy-side companies. Crux will integrate SIX’s Valordata Feed (VDF), which covers 29.7 million instruments for pricing, corporate actions reference data as well as compliance and regulatory data. The partnership…

Market Volatility – What’s the Impact on Profit & Loss and Independent Pricing Valuation?

By Charlie Brown, former head of Head of IPV at Lloyds Banking Group, now Head of Market & Risk Solutions at GoldenSource. The recent market volatility has emphasized the need for transparency in the processes that generate the profit and loss (P&L) and capital charges that impact bank balance sheets. In particular there is increased scrutiny…

NeoXam Partners With ICE on Pricing, Reference Data

Financial software firm NeoXam, which specialists in transaction software solutions, has integrated ICE Data Services’ pricing and reference data into its Enterprise Data Management (EDM solution). The new partnership will give NeoXam customers access to pricing, fixed income evaluated prices, reference data and corporate actions from ICE Data Services. The data will be available through…

Not So Harmonious After All: Accommodating AnaCredit’s Maturing Requirements

By Frederic Bernard, Manager EMEA Capital & Credit, AxiomSL. In response to the credit crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) launched the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) project in 2011 to create a harmonized database and framework of rules regarding the credit exposure of credit institutions and other loan-providing financial firms. Yet since the inception of…

Recorded Webinar: Best practices for creating a data quality framework for your organisation

Bad data affects time, cost, customer service, cripples decision making and reduces firms’ ability to comply with regulations. With so much at stake, how can financial services organisations improve the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of their data? What approaches and technologies are available to ensure data quality meets regulatory requirements as well as their own…

Are You Up to Speed on Data Quality?

Bad data affects time, cost, customer service, cripples decision making and reduces firms’ ability to comply with regulations. With so much at stake, how can financial services organisations improve the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of their data? “Growing data volumes and diversity mean that central IT departments struggle to keep up with increasing demands to…

CSDR – The Clock is Ticking…

The Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR), first published way back in 2014, is finally on its way in – and although final implementation may be delayed from September 2020 to February 2021, that doesn’t take away from its status as one of the biggest data management challenges for financial institutions this year. The new regulation…

Welcome to DMS Virtual – A Groundbreaking Model for Today’s New Normal

Events have overtaken us this week (so to speak), and while we have put tremendous effort into our Data Management Summit this year, it became apparent that due to health and safety concerns in addition to event attendance restrictions for many participants, our live event will no longer be able to go ahead tomorrow. However,…

Regulatory Equivalence: How Brexit Could Trigger Better Risk Exposure Modelling

By Volker Lainer, VP of Product Management, GoldenSource. When it comes to the future relationship of EU/UK financial services, alignment has been touched on regularly by policy makers and the UK has begun a series of assessments for its post-Brexit vision for financial services. Either way, the EU has ruled out access unless the UK…

SWIFT Delays ISO 20022 a Further Year

In its March 2020 meeting, SWIFT endorsed ambitious plans for the group to support financial institutions’ payments and securities businesses – but confirmed that implementation of the ISO 20022 would be delayed by 12 months, following “feedback from the community.” ISO 20022 aims to create a single standardisation approach (including methodology, process, repository) for all…