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Don’t Miss It – A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit USA Virtual is Just Weeks Away
Data monetisation, data strategy to drive business outcomes, data discovery and intelligence, the power of data lineage, how to deliver an ESG data strategy and, necessarily, regulatory reporting challenges and the data management response, are just some of the key topics that leading capital markets’ participants and innovative solutions vendors will discuss at A-Team Group’s…
DTCC Data Services Aggregates Back-Office Data to Provide Front-Office Market Insight
DTCC Data Services is tapping the vast quantities of post-trade data that flow through DTCC on a daily basis to deliver back-office data to front-office data products offering market insight into areas such as liquidity, risk, momentum, sentiment and correlation. Early users of the historical data products include hedge funds and quant traders looking for…
SS&C Expands APAC Customer Base with Win at KIM Vietnam Fund Management
KIM Vietnam Fund Management (KIM Vietnam) has selected SS&C Technologies’ Eze order management system to support its operations. The fund manager was established in October 2020 and manages eight investment funds from Korea, Japan and Europe. Most recently, it expanded with the launch of new funds in Vietnam. “We were looking for an experienced investment…
The Rise and Rise of the Financial Data Marketplace
By Mike O’Hara, A-Team Special Correspondent. Data is often cited as the most essential resource in today’s global economy, with many of the world’s most valuable companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet profiting massively from how they collect, use and sell data. In financial markets, investment and trading firms have traditionally sourced…
Facteus Partners Snowflake to Migrate Sensitive Data to the Snowflake Data Cloud
Facteus, a provider of actionable insights from sensitive data, has joined Snowflake’s partner network with a focus on enabling financial services organisations to use its Mimic synthetic data engine and data enrichment services to transform, enhance, and migrate sensitive data to the Snowflake Data Cloud. Mimic is installed behind an organisation’s firewall and uses proprietary…
Bloomberg Offers Market-Implied Probability of Default Product to Enterprise Data and Terminal Clients
Bloomberg has made its Market-Implied Probability of Default (MIPD) product, a market-driven creditworthiness indicator, available to both Enterprise Data and Bloomberg Terminal clients globally. MIPD enables clients to incorporate creditworthiness metrics within existing workflows for a more holistic approach to credit risk management. The product provides clients with a highly responsive, transparent, daily credit risk…
Delta Capita and QAssure Partner to Drive Innovation
Delta Capita, a provider of managed services, technology solutions and consulting to financial institutions, has partnered QAssure Technologies, an independent software testing company headquartered in Singapore, to deliver an open innovation platform designed to accelerate innovation and address the challenges that delay innovation, such as operational complexity and ever-changing regulation. The companies say proof of…
DTCC Increases Transparency of Credit Default Swaps Market with Upgraded CDS Kinetics Platform
DTCC has enhanced its CDS Kinetics data platform to support demand for more transparency into the credit default swaps (CDS) market within the over-the-counter derivatives space. The platform provides position data on CDS sourced from DTCC’s Trade Information Warehouse including notional outstanding, net notional, and trading volume metrics on securities including single-name, index, and index…
Buy-Side Firms Report Data Management Challenges and Solutions in Outsourcing
Some 86% of decision makers in buy-side financial firms say their organisation has a significant data management challenge, with 28% citing a fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest challenge they face. A further 8% have a problem with IT bandwidth, stating: “Our IT teams…
NeoXam Challenges Cost of Data with Savings Strategies, Software Solutions and Kalaxis Partnership
NeoXam has responded to client calls for help to manage the cost of data with a value proposition offering five savings strategies, tools to monitor and adjust data sourcing and spending, and most recently, a partnership with data cost optimisation consultancy Kalaxis. The company’s move to enable clients to not only manage their data, but…