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Recorded Webinar: Best practice solutions for client lifecycle management

The challenges of client lifecycle management continue to increase, driven by regulation and requiring financial institutions to review processes around client onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) and client data maintenance. The webinar will outline the challenges faced by financial institutions, discuss best practice solutions, detail the need to integrate high quality entity data, and include…

Dates for your Diary – Data Management Review Events

As the summer season comes to an end and holiday makers return to their desks, here at Data Management Review we are working on an exciting programme of activities that we would like to invite you to take part in. We start the autumn season with a number of topical webinars covering issues including client…

The Impact of Brexit, According to our Data Management Community

By Ramy Choueiri In order to gauge opinion on the UK’s exit from the European Union, A-Team Group, producers of Data Management Review, recently conducted a survey of our data management community. The survey uncovered serious concerns about the impact Brexit could have on the UK financial data and technology industry, with 85% of respondents expecting…

Markit Adds Real-Time Bond Pricing to Hourly and End-of-Day Services

Markit has responded to market demand for real-time bond pricing with a streaming service covering investment grade and high yield corporate, sovereign and agency bonds. The service is designed to support pre-trade transparency, intraday net asset value calculations, and the need for exchange traded fund managers to understand how constituents of funds are priced throughout…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Glimpse into the Mysterious World of ION Trading

Financial Technology Partners’ announcement this month of its client Carlyle Group’s recent $400 million acquisition of a ‘minority stake’ in ION Investment Group offered an interesting glimpse into the capabilities of the secretive Irish trading technology specialist. The FTP announcement, issued on June 3, quoted Cam Dyer, managing director of Carlyle’s Global Technology, Media and…

Recorded Webinar: The Reference Data Utility: How and Why Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley are on board

The topic of a utility model for reference data management is not new. But now we have a real world example in the form of the Reference Data Utility, based on SmartStream’s platform and backed by three founding partners: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley. Listen to this important webinar to hear first…

A-Team Data Management Summit Outlines Elements of Optimal Data Management

Organising for optimal data management, transformation challenges, operational models, data quality, emerging technologies, data governance and, of course, regulation were top agenda items at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York City. The first keynote speaker, David Luria, vice president, front office data intelligence programs at T. Rowe Price, set the scene for…

Markit Mixes Old and New to Deliver FRTB Compliance Solution

Markit is pulling together existing products and new developments to deliver a compliance solution for the market risk capital requirements of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), which comes into force in 2019. The solution is based on a modular platform, allowing banks to supplement existing infrastructure and processes as needed, and is…

The Reference Data Utility: How Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley are breaking the reference data mold

The Reference Data Utility (RDU) built by SmartStream and backed by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley is up and running and ready to deliver reference data management services to the banks. The concept of multi-tenant data utilities is not new, but none have achieved buy-in at the level of the RDU,…

Data Management Summit Focuses on Blockchain and Fintech

Blockchain technology and fintech firms are high on the hype list, but their practical contribution to data management is beginning to materialise and is expected to be the subject of robust discussion at this week’s A-Team Data Management Summit in New York. Adam Bryan, an independent consultant, will moderate a panel session at the summit…