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DSB Opens Unique Product Identifier User Acceptance Test Environment

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has opened its Unique Product Identifier (UPI) User Acceptance Test (UAT) environment and associated Client Onboarding Support Platform (COSP). Go-live of the UPI UAT environment follows publication of mandates to report the UPI in the EU, UK, US and Australia, with additional jurisdictions expected to follow. The nine month UAT…

Recorded Webinar: Harnessing analytics with trusted and quality data for real-time insight and decision making

Analytics are only as good as the data they analyse, and real-time insight and decision making are only as good as the analytics they are based on, raising questions about how to ensure fundamental data quality and trust in data, data accessibility in real time, and the extent to which this is required in different…

Alveo Extends ESG Data Offering with Morningstar Sustainalytics Content

Alveo has integrated Morningstar Sustainalytics’ ESG content into its cloud-based data mastering and data quality Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. Combining the firms’ data and cloud data management capabilities provides customers with solutions that speed up integration of Sustainalytics’ content into clients’ workflows and business processes, and help business users self-serve. Content onboarded from Sustainalytics includes Sustainable…

Bloomberg Wins A-Team Group Award for Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative

Bloomberg has won the award for Most Innovative Data Standards Initiative in A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2023. The awards celebrate innovative solutions, projects and teams across vendor and practitioner communities that make use of new and emerging technologies to deliver high-value solutions for financial institutions in capital markets. Bloomberg’s data standards initiative, the Financial Instrument…

Vancity Investment Management Extends Bloomberg Stack with PORT Enterprise

Vancity Investment Management, one of the first wealth management firms in Canada to focus on investments that deliver competitive returns while making a positive impact on the world, has adopted PORT Enterprise, Bloomberg’s advanced portfolio and risk analytics solution, along with Bloomberg Data License, the technology that delivers Bloomberg’s data content sets across the enterprise…

Solidatus and BigID Partner to Provide Enhanced Metadata Visibility

Solidatus has partnered BigID, a platform for data security, privacy, compliance and governance, to provide a best-in-breed solution offering enhanced metadata visibility. The partnership is a response to requests from joint customers and will give users an active governance blueprint, delivering dynamic and real-time visualisation of the flow of data across the enterprise. Organisations can…

Strategy and Tools for Tracking Licensed Data Within Financial Services

By Neil Sandle, Head of Product Management, Alveo. Indices are tools used to track how asset classes, industry sectors, market segments, and a host of other physical and virtual sets of data perform over time. Leading examples can be found in the realm of financial services, in particular with stock markets, where the FTSE 100,…

How to Achieve Successful Data Transformation for Long Term Business Value

Demonstrating business value from data transformation pivots on quick wins with measurable outcomes, a focus on data quality, developing a strong data culture, ensuring management buy-in, and dealing with everyday change such as the forthcoming implementation of Consumer Duty Regulation. A CDO panel at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit London dived into the detail…

KX Offers Data Timehouse Platform on Microsoft Azure

FD Technologies, which acquired Kx Systems in 2018, has announced general availability of kdb Insights Enterprise on Microsoft Azure, an enterprise ready, real-time analytics engine with the kdb time series database (kdb) at its core, and running natively on Azure. FD says the solution represents the industry’s first Data Timehouse, a new class of data…

Optimising ISO 20022 for Cross-Border Payments

Why the LEI and BIC are a Perfect Fit for a Truly Global Identification Scheme By Clare Rowley, Head of Business Operations, GLEIF. Challenges in the cross-border payments market include high costs, low speed, limited access, and insufficient transparency. In October 2020, the G20 endorsed a roadmap to enhance cross-border payments. The roadmap was developed…