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DSB Reports Growing Industry Interest in Gaining Added Value from its ISIN Allocation Service
The results of the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB) first industry consultation in 2019 show users of the bureau moving on from initial implementation issues around the DSB ISIN allocation and maintenance service, and expressing growing interest in efficiency and gaining added value from the service. The consultation, now in its third year, closed on June…
Dion Global Releases Corporate Actions Solution
Dion Global Solutions has released a corporate actions solution. Already live with two pilot customers, the solution is designed to make corporate actions processing cost effective for the smallest industry participants and scalable for the largest. It aims to decrease manual processing by increasing automation, and reduce risk by ensuring no event is missed or…
Data Virtuality Breaks Data Management Mould with Logical Data Warehouse
Data Virtuality has broken the traditional data management mould with Logical Data Warehouse (LDW), a solution that combines the flexibility of a data virtualisation engine with extract, transfer and load (ETL) tools. It includes 200 connectors to data sources and consumption tools, allows users to access data in real time, and uses SQL language to…
Regulators Double Down on BCBS 239 Data Quality Focus
The European Central Bank (ECB) and other financial services regulators will increase their focus on improving the quality of data they receive from financial institutions over the next 24 months. Speakers at the Vermeg Annual Regulatory Reporting Conference, held in London in late June, said regulators are analysing the quality of the Basel III data…
J.P. Morgan Partners StatPro to Deliver Portfolio Analytics for Asset Managers
StatPro is hoping to reach new heights through a strategic partnership with J.P. Morgan that will provide J.P. Morgan clients with access to StatPro’s Revolution portfolio analytics platform alongside the bank’s fixed income benchmark indices. The aim of the partnership, which has an initial five-year term, is to create a one-stop shop offering decision makers…
AxiomSL and Refinitiv Partner on Shareholder Disclosure
AxiomSL has partnered Refinitiv to combine the former’s Global Shareholding Disclosures (GSD) solution with the latter’s reference data. The aim is to enable financial institutions to automatically enrich client positions while managing regulatory obligations across multiple jurisdictions. John Mason, head of pricing and reference data at Refinitiv, says: “Asset managers face challenges in understanding local…
Embracing the Known in FRTB: Why Banks Need to Step Away from the Data Pool and Start with the Familiar
By: Charlie Browne, Head of Market & Risk Data Solutions, GoldenSource. The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) is coming and it has sent firms into a spin around how to get the data required to prove risk factor modellability. It is the first time banks will be obligated to do this, a mammoth…
Three Big Banks Sign on to Operational Risk Data Sharing Platform
In mid-June, Acin – a data standards firm for operational risk and controls – announced that Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank and Société Générale had joined its collaboration community, the Operational Risk Defence Network Model. Their arrival brings the total number of tier one banks working with Acin to 12. The name of the company,…
The Essence of Digital Transformation is Data and the Message – Don’t Give Up
Digital transformation is all the rage among financial institutions, but it comes with significant data management challenges and can hit the wall if it is not underpinned with a strong data foundation and the right skills. That said, an audience poll on the status of digital transformation projects run during an A-Team Group webinar this…
Recorded Webinar: Building the data foundations for your digital transformation journey
Digital transformation is a requirement to succeed in today’s information economy. As business leaders begin to acknowledge this necessity, they seek to navigate a successful path to digitisation, but they must start with a foundation of data understanding, maturity and trust – a crucial prerequisite for the digital transformation adventure. This webinar will consider the…






