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A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into the Data Management Challenges of FATCA

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) comes into effect on 1 July 2014 and presents, perhaps, the most challenging data management issues that financial institutions will face this year. The volume of data is one problem, the complexity of requirements is another, and the whole is not helped by recent changes to FATCA rules…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s All About the People

Social media is a wonderful thing. It’s how I know that an industry friend is gallivanting around Australia. Or making an intriguing connection with another industry friend. Or has got a new job. This week, LinkedIn yielded a couple of interesting snippets. As you’ll have seen, Kate Toumazi has moved to the new role of…

Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Risk and Reward in An Open Source World

I just read the latest from Michael Lewis, and while I can’t say I’m fully in agreement with regard to his “rigged market” position, I did find Flash Boys to be a pretty good basic description of high frequency trading and the technologies that underpin it. It was not, however, the main HFT focus that…

Recorded Webinar: Tackling the Data Management Challenges of FATCA

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. FATCA remains one of 2014’s biggest challenges for data managers everywhere. This webinar looks at the current state of play, and explores what practitioners should be doing to meet this regulation’s onerous requirements. Webinar Date: April 29, 2014 Speakers: Sponsors:

Kate Toumazi Switches Role to Become Head of Risk and Data Services at Thomson Reuters

Kate Toumazi has moved from the role of global head of front office in the Enterprise Content leadership team at Thomson Reuters to take up the new role of global head of risk and data services in the Pricing and Reference Services leadership team within the company’s risk division. The new role has been designed…

Andbank Selects AIM’s Gain Portfolio Pricing Data Management Application

AIM Software’s business approach to data management has been endorsed by Andbank, a private bank based in Andorra that has gone live with the company’s Gain Portfolio Pricing data management application. The AIM solution was chosen following a comprehensive evaluation and selection process and is being used to service the bank’s primary private banking and…

The Case for a Reference Data Management Utility

Money, time, accuracy and quality have all been casualties of the extensive duplication of effort that has characterised the management of reference data management in the financial industry for as long as anyone can remember. The issue has become all the more acute in recent years by the growing complexity of financial markets and the…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: If Only…

I frequently find myself in meetings, on calls, at conferences, listening to people talk about the data and data management impact of regulation. I’ve heard it said many times, by suppliers mostly, that regulation is our friend. And it’s probably fair to say that without regulation, our industry would not be moving at quite the…

Interactive Data Bases Managed Data Service on SAP Sybase RAP

Interactive Data has deployed SAP’s Sybase Real-time Analytics Platform (RAP) as the basis of a managed data service that combines securities, pricing and corporate actions data, and delivers data on demand to Microsoft Excel and other front and middle office proprietary and packaged applications. Marc Alvarez, senior director of reference data at Interactive Data, explains:…

Opinion: The Pricing & Reference Data Community – Helping You Tackle Regulatory Challenges

By Marion Leslie, Managing Director, Pricing & Reference Services, Thomson Reuters The current barrage of regulatory reforms sweeping the global financial services industry poses an enormous challenge for all sectors. These changes are impacting banks, broker/dealers, insurance companies, institutional asset managers, hedge funds and their asset servicers such as fund administrators, custodians and prime brokers…