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Recorded Webinar: Data lineage – how to ensure you can deliver the right information, to the right people, at the right time
Data lineage is critical to digital transformation, business decisions and regulatory compliance. It is also difficult to implement at scale, not only because large quantities of data across numerous systems must be inventoried and tracked, but also because the data is not static and needs context to make sense to the business. If you are…
Developing Smart Analytics – Firms Seek a New Approach to Business Partnership
Enhanced analytics – or better decision-making information – are one of the key goals of data transformation. However, it is a goal that financial services firms continue to struggle to achieve. Panellists at the recent A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City discussed challenges the industry faces and potential approaches to getting analytics…
Knowledge Graphs – the Future of Data Management?
Knowledge graphs are becoming an increasingly popular way of thinking about and organising data within financial services firms. The industry is turning to knowledge graphs as a methodology for making data more accessible, and for use in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, for example. Edgar Zalite, global head of metadata management within the chief data and…
FSB publishes UPI governance arrangements
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published a report on governance arrangements for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI). The UPI will uniquely identify the product involved in OTC derivatives transactions reported to trade repositories. This will help authorities aggregate data on OTC derivatives transactions by product, allowing the effective use of OTC derivatives trade reporting…
How to Extract Value from Unstructured Data
Unstructured data offers untapped potential but the platforms, tools and technologies to support it are nascent and are often deployed for a specific problem with little reuse of common technologies from application to application. The challenges of managing and analysing unstructured data, and considerations when making investments in the data, were discussed during a panel…
Developing Smart Analytics – Firms Seek a New Approach to Business Partnership
Enhanced analytics – or better decision-making information – are one of the key goals of data transformation. However, it is a goal that financial services firms continue to struggle to achieve. Panellists at the recent A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City discussed challenges the industry faces and potential approaches to getting analytics…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2019/2020 – Seventh Edition
Welcome to A-Team Group’s best read handbook, the Regulatory Data Handbook, which is now in its seventh edition and continues to grow in terms of the number of regulations covered, the detail of each regulation and the impact that all the rules and regulations will have on data and data management at your institution. This…
Recorded Webinar: Client onboarding – how developments in tech and automation can help optimise entity data management and improve KYC
Financial services providers spend billions of dollars a year on Know Your Customer (KYC), client onboarding and due diligence. Yet even with vast investment, these processes rarely run smoothly. They also fall short of delivering a good client experience and fail to cut down on financial crime. At the heart of the problem–and solution–is data….
Asset Managers Migrate to the Cloud
IHS Markit research among asset managers in Europe and North America shows an industry segment becoming more strategic in its approach to data management, but not immune to problems including mounting fees, rising costs and demanding regulations. The research notes 52% of firms use the cloud for data management and a further 28% plan to…
Marion Leslie Leaves Refinitiv to Head Up SIX Financial Information
Marion Leslie has stepped down from the role of managing director of Refinitiv’s Enterprise business and will join SIX as leader of SIX Financial Information and a member of the SIX executive board on January 1, 2020. She will succeed Robert Jeanbart, who has decided to retire at the end of this year. Jeanbart joined…