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Regulatory Data Handbook – Third Edition
Need to know all the essentials about the regulations impacting data management? Welcome to the third edition of our A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook which provides all the essentials about regulations impacting data management. A-Team’s series of Regulatory Data Handbooks are a great way to see at-a-glance: All the regulations that are impacting data management today…
German Development Bank KfW Implements Markit EDM
KfW, Germany’s largest development bank, has selected Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) solution to drive BCBS 239 compliance, streamline its data management architecture and support its liquidity and portfolio valuations projects. Markit won the KfW contract after a lengthy public tender process that included a two month proof of concept and gaining business sign off…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: See You This Thursday
Yes, it’s this week. The A-Team Data Management Summit is coming to town (if you happen to be in London) this coming Thursday, October 1. I’m particularly excited by this event as we’ve managed to attract our strongest group of speakers and panellists to date. And, as you might expect, this lineup of senior bank…
Final ESMA Report on MiFID II and MiFIR Technical Standards Recommends XML and ISO 20022 for Regulatory Data Reporting
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The report covers many aspects of the directive and regulation, and concludes debate over market data reporting, recommending that transaction and instrument reference…
Recorded Webinar: Practical Uses of Big Data in Financial Services
All data managers are concerned about big data and what it means for them, but there’s little in the way of practical advice for how to make the most of the opportunities it may bring. We delve into some real-life examples of how big data can be used at financial institutions to ease data management…
Recorded Webinar: Solvency II – The Final Data Management Challenges
With the Jan 2016 deadline fast approaching, what should you be doing in the last quarter of this year to make sure your data management operations are ready?
Solvency II How Insurers, Asset Managers and Asset Servicers are Meeting the Data Challenge
The EU’s Solvency II regulation is due to come into effect in January 2016. Aimed at ensuring the insurance industry fully understands the risks associated with its investments, the regulation places great emphasis on access to highly granular valuations and risk information. For most insurers, this is the first time they have been required to…
Marc Alvarez Moves to Mizuho Securities as CDO
Marc Alvarez, a market and reference data expert whose 30-year career in financial markets includes roles with technology vendors TMX Group, IDC, Asset Control and Reuters, has moved to Mizuho Securities as chief data officer and head of data governance. Alvarez’s move to a technology user company follows a one-year contract at TMX Group, where…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: Back and Bigger Than Ever
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team towers as we put the finishing touches to the agenda for our Data Management Summit conference in London on October 1. And of course, right behind it is our planned summit in New York on November 3, of which more later in a future edition of this missive. We…
Opinion: ECB AnaCredit Project Will Subject Reference Data to a New Level of Scrutiny
By David Attenborough, Business Development Manager EMEA, AxiomSL The European Central Bank (ECB) is increasing its focus on credit risk. As part of the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) project, it plans to create a centralised register of granular data about the credit granted by financial institutions in Europe to the non-financial sector. The regulator is…