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Unigestion Selects AIM Software’s GAIN for Enterprise Data Management
Unigestion, a Geneva headquartered asset manager, has selected AIM Software’s GAIN enterprise data management (EDM) platform and business applications to provide an integrated front-to-back-office data management and operations solution. The selection of GAIN plays into the asset manager’s recent decision to implement SimCorp’s Dimension, an investment management platform that has already been integrated with GAIN…
Winners of the Data Management Summit Awards 2014 Revealed…
Some happy winners were on hand to collect their awards at our Data Management Summit in London yesterday in recognition of their hard work delivering robust data and data management solutions for the financial technology industry. The second annual awards were presented by our Chief Content Officer Andrew Delaney. Congratulations go to AIM Software, Alacra,…
SunGard Expands XSP Corporate Actions Portfolio
SunGard has expanded the XSP corporate actions portfolio it acquired in January 2013 with a business process as a service (BPaaS) solution that provides access to cleansed corporate actions data and a cloud-based risk dashboard that visualises a firm’s corporate actions risk exposure. Both solutions can be used standalone or with the XSP corporate actions…
AIM Software Wins Corporate Actions Client in the Netherlands
AIM Software has secured its fifth customer in the Netherlands, a large European asset manager that is using the company’s GAIN Corporate Actions DM application to automate the processing of corporate actions. AIM won the contract in a competitive selection process and was favoured on the basis of the application’s integration with SimCorp Dimension, the…
Bloomberg Promotes FIGI as Primary Global Security Identifier
Bloomberg plans to rename its Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID) as the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) with a view to making it the world’s primary standard for securities identification ahead of the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN). Bloomberg’s move follows last week’s release by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) of an update to…
Tom Dalglish Starts at SmartStream with a Transformation Project at Société Générale
Just weeks after moving on from iGate Global Solutions to join SmartStream Technologies as head of transformation services, Tom Dalglish is in Paris, working on a project at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) that will manage and optimise the bank’s back-office securities processing. The project is led by Accenture Post-Trade Processing (APTP),…
Sun Street Taking a Different Approach to Data Governance
With an increasing industry focus on data governance, one vendor has been taking a different approach to managing data quality from a business point-of-view by providing exceptions workflow, a range of data enquiry tools, and ‘what-if’ scenarios for data sourcing, all of which sit on top of a financial institutions’ existing data architecture. Sun Street…
More on Interactive Data’s Restructuring to Global Business Roles
News last week of Brendan Beith’s departure from Interactive Data was part of a wider restructuring in the company to streamline its operations and shift from a regional focus to a global one. Interactive Data’s chief operating officer Jay Nadler now has global business heads for each vertical reporting into him. Each global vertical business…
Thomson Reuters Adds Data Service to Support Solvency II Compliance
Thomson Reuters has pulled together the datasets required by insurance companies and asset managers to comply with the capital adequacy and disclosure obligations of Solvency II. The company’s Solvency II Data Service is available through the Thomson Reuters DataScope Select delivery platform and falls in line with company strategy to support clients with reference data…
Recorded Webinar: Regulation and Risk as Data Management Drivers
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording by registering here. As the regulatory onslaught continues, more forward-thinking financial institutions are seeking ways to build a data management and data governance framework that spans regulations and provides a methodology for expanding scope as the regulations continue to evolve. How can this be achieved?…