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New York Equity Manager Pzena Investment Management Selects IHS Markit EDM
Pzena Investment Management, a $37 billion equity manager based in New York, has signed up to use IHS Markit’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution to master securities and issuers. In future, it also plans to use the solution as a data hub for prices, accounts and other entities. IHS Markit EDM will validate data from…
Beam Solutions Issues Warning on Insufficient AML Procedures Across EU Member States
Beam Solutions, a San Francisco-based transaction monitoring platform founded in 2016 by former Facebook and Paypal executives, has warned of widespread Russian money laundering within the EU banking system. In a note published March 18, the software company noted that multiple major European banks were facing allegations of failing to prevent money laundering taking place…
Stream Financial Releases High-Performance Data Management Platform
Stream Financial has released a data management platform designed to solve the problems of data siloes and ageing enterprise data management (EDM) solutions, and deliver efficient, high-performance data management that can reduce total cost of ownership and help firms improve margins. The platform challenges traditional data management systems, but keeps existing infrastructure in place, by…
Data Lineage Handbook 2019
Welcome to our latest handbook on data lineage, a critical concern for data managers working to achieve regulatory compliance, deliver operational gains, and provide meaningful value to the business. The handbook covers the complete scope of data lineage, with a view to helping you win management buy-in and budget, decide whether to build or buy…
How to Tackle the Exorbitant Cost of Sourcing and Cleansing Market Data
The financial industry spends $28.5 billion on externally sourced market data and a further $2-3 billion cleaning it up so that is can be used internally. Why is this so difficult and costly, and what can the industry and market participants do about it? Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), will…
Seven Principles of a Data Ethics Framework
The issue of data ethics is surfacing at financial firms following the focus on data privacy required by General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance and the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the workplace. It’s a difficult issue to manage as it can be interpreted in many ways, so how best can you address…
IHS Markit Extends Use of OTC Derivatives Valuations to Best Execution Compliance
IHS Markit has extended the use of its OTC derivatives valuation data to financial institutions working on best execution compliance. The time-stamped valuation data can help firms monitor intraday and historic transaction costs across interest rate, equity, FX, credit, commodity and structured product OTC derivatives. Laura Misher, managing director of derivatives data and valuation services…
ECB’s Francis Gross Makes the Case for Data Standardisation and Shared Data Infrastructure
Technology has added complexity to capital markets, shifted the human-machine interface, and will soon provide automation beyond human understanding. It could also go wrong and cause an unplanned and unwanted crisis on a scale far larger and more damaging than the 2008 crisis. Countering this criticality and ‘the data mess that is getting worse all…
Derivatives Service Bureau Conducts User Survey on Fee Model
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), which issues International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISNs) for OTC derivatives, is conducting a user survey, and establishing an Agreement Forum as part of its 2019 industry consultation milestones. The initiatives have been set up to ensure continued industry…
Refinitiv Partners with Liquid Inc for KYC in Japan
Refinitiv has announced a new partnership with Japan’s Liquid, Inc. to streamline the electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) process for the Japanese market. The agreement will combine the screening capabilities of Refinitiv’s World-Check One solution with Liquid Inc’s biometric authentication service, LIQUID eKYC, to help financial services providers improve their customer on-boarding and transaction capabilities. Liquid, Inc. will incorporate the risk screening…