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Recorded Webinar: How to get data lineage right
Data lineage is key to regulatory compliance and financial institutions’ ability to understand and use their data to business advantage. It is also important from an operational perspective, as a successful implementation can identify systems and data feeds that are no longer necessary and can be switched off, saving money and resource. The webinar will…
Act Now to Be Ready for Fundamental New Capital Rules
By Tim Lind, Managing Director at DTCC Data Services A decade on since the global financial crisis, large swathes of financial regulation aimed at addressing the weaknesses exposed during that time have come into force. Among many lessons learned in terms of market risk, there were two specific gaps that regulators wanted to address: ensure…
MiFID II Drives Innovation in Research Management
The challenges of how to manage research under MiFID II – where it comes from, how you pay for it and how much it costs – are the result of the regulation’s focus on bringing transparency to investors. The regulation has also created a cottage industry of nimble innovators alongside the big players that have…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: How to optimise data management for transaction reporting
As MiFID II hits the six-month mark, how well is your organisation handling transaction reporting? Is it ready to meet the LEI mandate that will take effect on July 3 and require all parties to transactions to have LEIs? And how is it coping with sourcing and managing ISINs required for OTC derivatives reporting? The…
Deutsche Bank Transformation Moves Reconciliation Services to SmartStream
Deutsche Bank has selected SmartStream Technologies’ Centre of Excellence (CoE) to provide an off-site operations platform including three services that will allow the bank to streamline, simplify and reduce the costs of its reconciliations environment. The decision to use the SmartStream managed service utility is part of the bank’s transformation programme. The three managed services…
It’s Official – No Further Delays in the Use of LEIs Under MiFID II
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) confirmed today that the six-month delay to the mandate requiring the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) for all issuers and counterparties to transactions under MiFID II will not be extended. The initial delay from January 3, 2018, when MiFID II came into play, to July 3, 2018…
Datactics Moves into Iceland with Contract Win at Arion Bank
Datactics has won its first customer in Iceland, Arion Bank, which will use the company’s RegMetrics and Single Customer View data quality solutions to support an enterprise data management programme. The bank selected Datactics after a competitive vendor selection process that included a technically demanding and tightly specified proof of concept across three departments, each…
Global Merces Selects SS&C Solutions to Support Growth
Australian alternative asset manager, Global Merces, has selected SS&C’s investment accounting, asset servicing and mutual fund platforms to support growth both locally and globally. The deal marks SS&C’s first Australian client win since it closed the acquisition of DST Systems earlier this year. Global Merces selected SS&C’s HiTrust unit registry and pricing solution because it…
Data Management for Compliance, Business Performance and Reduced Costs
Regulatory compliance is non-negotiable, business performance is crucial, and pressure on costs is continual. So, how can you source and manage data once for both compliance and performance, and how can you contain costs? These questions and more were addressed during a recent A-Team Group webinarhosted by A-Team editor Sarah Underwood and joined by Dessa Glasser,…
Broadridge Adds StatPro Portfolio Analytics to Performance Reporting Platform
Broadridge Financial Solutions has extended its performance reporting platform through a strategic partnership with StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry. The inclusion of StatPro analytics is in progress for Broadridge performance clients and is expected to be completed by the end of 2018….