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Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference…
Recorded Webinar: Practical Uses of Big Data in Financial Services
All data managers are concerned about big data and what it means for them, but there’s little in the way of practical advice for how to make the most of the opportunities it may bring. We delve into some real-life examples of how big data can be used at financial institutions to ease data management…
Recorded Webinar: Solvency II – The Final Data Management Challenges
With the Jan 2016 deadline fast approaching, what should you be doing in the last quarter of this year to make sure your data management operations are ready?
Solvency II How Insurers, Asset Managers and Asset Servicers are Meeting the Data Challenge
The EU’s Solvency II regulation is due to come into effect in January 2016. Aimed at ensuring the insurance industry fully understands the risks associated with its investments, the regulation places great emphasis on access to highly granular valuations and risk information. For most insurers, this is the first time they have been required to…
Marc Alvarez Moves to Mizuho Securities as CDO
Marc Alvarez, a market and reference data expert whose 30-year career in financial markets includes roles with technology vendors TMX Group, IDC, Asset Control and Reuters, has moved to Mizuho Securities as chief data officer and head of data governance. Alvarez’s move to a technology user company follows a one-year contract at TMX Group, where…
BCBS 239: An Urgent Call to Overhaul Risk Data Management
BCBS 239 is a wide ranging regulation including 14 principles spanning risk data aggregation and reporting, IT infrastructure, and data governance. Implementation can provide significant business benefits, including an enterprise-wide view of risk, but the task is not without difficulties as banks face data management challenges such as data silos, legacy systems and poor data…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: Back and Bigger Than Ever
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team towers as we put the finishing touches to the agenda for our Data Management Summit conference in London on October 1. And of course, right behind it is our planned summit in New York on November 3, of which more later in a future edition of this missive. We…
Opinion: ECB AnaCredit Project Will Subject Reference Data to a New Level of Scrutiny
By David Attenborough, Business Development Manager EMEA, AxiomSL The European Central Bank (ECB) is increasing its focus on credit risk. As part of the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) project, it plans to create a centralised register of granular data about the credit granted by financial institutions in Europe to the non-financial sector. The regulator is…
Thomson Reuters Adds Continuous Evaluated Pricing Updates
Thomson Reuters continues to build out its pricing service with the provision of intraday evaluated pricing for government and corporate bonds, and the promise of similar evaluated pricing availability for all fixed income instruments either this year or next. The company says the addition of continuous pricing updates throughout the day from Monday to Friday…
Solving the Operational Risk Management Puzzle
Operational risk management has emerged as a major challenge as a slew of regulations affecting financial institutions across the board – from universal banks to insurance companies and their asset servicers – aims to boost transparency in order to mitigate systemic risk. The emerging regulations are emphasizing data governance and requiring firms to ‘show their…