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Gearing up for GIPS 20/20
The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute released the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) 20/20 Exposure Draft for public comment late last month. The draft outlines significant changes to the current standards that could alter financial firms’ approaches to compliance. Comments on the draft must be made by December 31, 2018, with final adoption of the…
Kingland Cognitive Engine Turns Unstructured Data into Actionable Information
Have you ever considered how much value is tied up in unstructured data that is difficult to access? What nuggets of useful information could be buried in documents such as company reports? And how you could turn masses of unstructured data into actionable information? If the answer to these questions is yes, and it probably…
Is the Cloud Always on the Horizon?
By Gavin Carey, Head of Enterprise, EMEA, Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk We recently shared the findings of a global survey of 250 senior decision makers at financial firms across the buy- and sell-side. The results were much more bullish than you might expect about how quickly the financial community is planning to adopt cloud when it…
Schroders Selects The Disruption House to Assess New Tech Vendors
Global investment house Schroders has become the first asset manager to partner with specialist benchmarking and data analytics provider The Disruption House (TDH) to assess the capabilities of new technology providers. TDH says the aim is to “support Schroders’ innovation agenda and assist the firm in its goal of engaging more start-ups”. “We are committed…
IBM Watson Financial Services: Focus on the First Line of Defence
Banks are spending too much money trying to comply with big-ticket regulations because the tools they are using are not efficient enough. That is the view of IBM Watson Financial Services, which is in the process of expanding its regtech portfolio based on AI and machine learning, and covering governance, risk and compliance (GRC), financial…
StatPro Adds Regulatory Risk Service Through Acquisition of ODDO BHF
StatPro has acquired the regulatory risk services bureau of ODDO BHF, which provides a managed service for regulatory risk reporting that will be integrated with the company’s Revolution portfolio analytics platform. The deal was made for an undisclosed sum in cash and adds 10 clients to StatPro’s client base in Germany and Luxembourg. StatPro will…
Solving the Data Management Challenges of FRTB
Despite the compliance deadline of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation being pushed back to January 2022, the time to address the data management challenges of the regulation is now. A recent A-Team Group Webinar explored the key data challenges presented by the regulation, identified possible solutions, and discussed best practices for implementation. The…
JWG Partners with BMO on Regulatory Change Management
North American financial services provider BMO Capital Markets has partnered with multi-client regulatory platform JWG to access the firm’s AI-powered, natural-language processing change management system, RegDelta. The system aims to reinvent the global postal system for managing change, through curating holistic data set, enriching it via sophisticated data science, and providing SaaA technology to the…
Recorded Webinar: How to get data lineage right
Data lineage is key to regulatory compliance and financial institutions’ ability to understand and use their data to business advantage. It is also important from an operational perspective, as a successful implementation can identify systems and data feeds that are no longer necessary and can be switched off, saving money and resource. The webinar will…
AML – More Focus in 2018 for the FCA and Firms
By Philip Naughton, Head of UK Compliance, Cordium The regulatory landscape for anti-money laundering (AML) is continuing to evolve, and for financial institutions struggling under an increasingly heavy regulatory burden, we at Data Management Review felt that this article from financial services tech consultancy Cordium was of particular interest in highlighting the upcoming AML upgrades…