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LIBOR’s End Should be a New Beginning for Corporate Treasuries’ Data Management
By Neil Sandle, Head of Product Management, Alveo. For many treasuries, LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) is one of their most critical benchmarks. Together with the exchange rates of major currencies it is an essential piece of data, underpinning contracts worth trillions of dollars. The long-standing centrality of LIBOR is why well-publicised global moves to…
Recorded Webinar: Data management for ESG requirements
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is moving into the mainstream, requiring asset managers to develop ESG strategies that deliver for both the firm and its investors. While these strategies can outperform those that do not include ESG factors, there is no clear route to success in an immature market that is only just beginning…
NatWest Keynote at Data Management Summit Virtual Details Data Strategy for ESG
Third-party data sources are the largest investment financial firms are making to deliver environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies, yet data quality remains the biggest concern when sourcing the data. This conundrum was among many ESG issues discussed during a practitioner innovation keynote delivered at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit Virtual by Sarah Walker,…
Alveo Extends ESG Data Management Capability
Alveo (formerly Asset Control) has expanded its ESG data management capability by extending its standard industry data model and user interface to help clients understand ESG data quality, data lineage and divergence between third-party ratings. Driven by regulations such as the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the Alveo data model now incorporates the data…
A-Team Group Data Management Summit Virtual Hit the Hot Topics of Data Strategy, Regulatory Reporting, KYC and Onboarding
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit Virtual, hosted last week by president and chief content officer Andrew Delaney, got off to a great start with a day one keynote by Deborah Lorenzen, managing director, head of enterprise data governance at State Street. Lorenzen was followed by panel sessions focused on using data strategy to drive data…
AWS Adds Amazon FinSpace Managed Service Offering Data Management and Preparation for Analytics
AWS has released Amazon FinSpace, a data management and analytics managed service designed to store, catalogue and prepare financial industry data at scale, as well as reduce the time it takes to find and access data for analysis from months to minutes. FinSpace avoids the heavy lifting of building and maintaining a data management system…
Tableau Supports Capital Markets Participants’ Priorities, Adds Business Science
Tableau, a provider of business intelligence and analytics software, is working with capital markets participants to achieve priorities of driving customer growth, ensuring regulatory compliance, using data analytics for business insight, and identifying operational efficiencies. Most recently, it has added business science to its capabilities, democratising data science and providing business users and analysts with…
A-Team Group Releases Entity Data Management Handbook 2021
The use of accurate, complete and timely entity data and modern entity data management solutions can be the difference between regulatory compliance and penalties for non-compliance, doing business with the right or wrong customers, and complying with sanctions and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) requirements or breaching these and incurring eye-watering financial fines and reputational damage….
Recorded Webinar: How to establish data quality and data governance for analytics
Data quality has been a perennial problem for financial institutions for many years, but this needs to change as firms become increasingly reliant on accurate analytics to deliver business opportunity and competitive advantage. New approaches to data quality can help firms up their game and significantly improve their analytics capability. Adding the processes, controls and…
SmartStream Adds Microsoft Azure Cloud Hosting for Air Data Reconciliation Solution
SmartStream Technologies has extended the reach of its Air cloud and AI based data reconciliation solution with version 3, which is hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud required by some global regions to support all their data requirements. SmartStream Air was originally hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and is now available on…