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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…
FCA Requires IBA to Continue Publication of US Dollar LIBOR Settings Using Synthetic Methodology
Further to a November 2022 consultation, the FCA has decided to use its powers under UK Benchmarks Regulation (UK BMR) to require ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) to continue publication of 1-, 3- and 6-month US dollar LIBOR settings using an unrepresentative synthetic methodology. The FCA will require IBA to publish these synthetic US dollar LIBOR…
Exchange Data International Extends Provision of Corporate Actions Data
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing, and reference data services, has introduced UK FundsCAB Service to further extend its investment funds coverage. The service covers over 13,700 share class funds from 200 fund management companies to provide comprehensive corporate actions data. Users can access corporate actions as soon as…
Bloomberg Unveils BloombergGPT: A Large-Language Model Tailored for the Financial Industry
Bloomberg has introduced BloombergGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model specifically designed to enhance natural language processing (NLP) tasks within the financial sector. Developed using a vast range of financial data, this large language model (LLM) represents a significant step forward in the application of AI technology in the financial industry. While recent advancements in…
Derivatives Service Bureau Sets Timeline for 2023 Consultation on ISIN and CFI
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has set out the timeline for 2023 industry consultation related to 2024 service provision of the OTC International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) and Classification Financial Instrument code (CFI). The consultation paper will be published on 28 April 2023, and the industry will have until 31 May 2023 to respond. The…