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Recorded Webinar: Leveraging data lineage to deliver tangible business benefits

Data lineage is central to data quality, accuracy and access. It is also essential to understanding your data and data flows, systems from simple applications to multiple business intelligence solutions, and how people in your organisation are using data. Implemented across the enterprise, data lineage can provide significant business benefits, including new business opportunities, better…

How to Use Chatbots and Collaboration Tools to Improve Automation and Deliver On-Demand Data

Digital transformation in the financial services sector is forcing a rethink in how financial institutions access the data they need to support trading and investment activities. While traditional bulk data distribution arrangements are well suited to large sell-side institutions, they can be costly and lack flexibility for firms from large Tier 2 sell-sides down to the…

Derivatives Service Bureau Calls for Reference Data Provider to Support UPI

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has released a Request for Information (RFI) to identify a reference data provider for underlier identifiers for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI). A requirement of the UPI, which the DSB plans to make available in Q3 2022, is to support the use of multiple underlier identifiers and reference data elements….

CNP Assurances Group Selects NeoXam to Streamline Data Management

CNP Assurances Group has selected NeoXam’s DataHub to house all its pricing and reference data on a single platform. The group wanted a centralised platform to shorten the time needed for data management processes that were previously handled manually. By providing increased visibility into data underpinning all investible assets, DataHub supports the group’s UChange programme,…

Opensee Platform Provides Self-Service Big Data Analytics for Business Users

Paris-based ICA, a provider of big data analytics, has rebranded as Opensee, marking its evolution from an innovative capital markets data analytics platform to a market challenger. The company’s offer is to make hundreds of terabytes of structured data accessible to business users easily and quickly through self-service data analytics tools. The company was initially…

Recorded Webinar: The UK’s New Prudential Regime for Investment Firms – Time to Prepare!

With the implementation of the new Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR), the FCA is aiming to streamline and simplify the prudential requirements for solo-regulated investment firms in the UK. Under the new regime, all MiFID authorized, Collective Portfolio Management Investment Firms (i.e. UK UCITS ManCo and Alternative Investment Fund Management Firms permitted to undertake Additional Activities)…

Moody’s Completes Acquisition of Credit Data Provider Cortera

Moody’s has completed its acquisition of Cortera, a provider of North American credit data and workflow solutions. The acquisition enhances the company’s risk assessment capabilities and extends its coverage in the small and medium enterprise segment. Cortera also augments Moody’s Orbis database of private company information – acquired along with Bureau van Dijk in 2017…

Gresham Hires Harvey Colborne to Drive Sales of Data Control Solutions

Gresham Technologies, a provider of solutions for data integrity and control, has appointed Harvey Colborne to lead business development and sales across the UK and Ireland. Colborne has experience of both the buy and sell-side following a career with roles at JPMorgan, Schroders, and BNY Mellon, as well as technology providers Interactive Data and IHS…

Derivatives Service Bureau Sets Timeline for Consultation on OTC ISIN and CFI Services in 2022

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has published the timeline for its 2021 industry consultation on 2022 OTC ISIN and CFI service provision. Core themes focus on providing updates for service enhancements sought last year, as well as risk analysis relating to the DSB’s cybersecurity and cloud resilience. The OTC ISIN and CFI consultation will operate…

Harbr Data Exchange Democratises Internal Data, Provides Collaboration for Data Product Creation

Harbr is taking a new approach to data value with an enterprise data exchange that can be used to democratise internal data, enrich a data ecosystem by adding external data, or monetise data by building a marketplace that provides insight into numerous data products. The London-based company was founded in 2017 to address the problem…