Data Management Insight Data The latest content from across the platform
Getting Ahead in Fund Pricing
Faced with greater regulatory scrutiny, increasing workloads, more sophisticated client requirements and continued pressure on costs, fund administrators are heavily challenged to improve their operational efficiency across alternative and traditional funds to keep service quality levels high. With fund managers looking again to create new products, fund administrators are in a unique position to act…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Is Lance Uggla the New Michael Bloomberg?
No, he’s not running to be mayor of New York, as far as we’re aware. But he is leading a company that has pretensions for the No. 1 slot in financial information and infrastructure. That’s our conclusion from recent events at Markit, and the growing swell of talk about what’s to come in the not-too-distant…
Swedbank Robur Extends use of SimCorp Dimension to Cover Solvency II
Swedbank Robur has extended its use of SimCorp Dimension to include the software provider’s Solvency II solution. The asset manager was already using Dimension as its core investment management platform and its choice of the software for Solvency II was a natural move as the platform already includes most of the functionality required to meet…
Razor Risk and Numerix Partnership Delivers Integrated Enterprise Risk Solution
TMX Group’s Razor Risk Technologies, the Australian enterprise risk provider acquired by TMX early last year, has teamed up with Numerix to strengthen its front-office capability and offer an integrated front-to-back risk solution. The Razor platform will call on Numerix’s pricing models for its credit risk, market risk and economic capital management solutions, supporting clients…
Recorded Webinar: Dealing with Reality – How to Ensure Data Quality in the Changing Entity Identifier Landscape
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The development of the global legal entity identifier standard has put a focus on entity and customer data. Financial institutions are struggling with a range of quality of issues. The emergence of several so-called pre-LEIs has added complexity to the situation. How are firms…
Swift Enhances SwiftRef Reference Data Utility and Plans Managed Services
Swift is building on last year’s introduction of SwiftRef, its payments reference data utility, with plans to extend web and cloud data services and develop managed services around the data it collects, cleanses, consolidates and publishes. SwiftRef went live in January 2012 and is delivering 194 data files every day to about 1,000 subscribers worldwide….
Markit Plans New-Build Corporate Actions Platform Post Acquisition of DTCC’s GCA Validation Service
Markit’s acquisition of DTCC’s Global Corporate Actions (GCA) Validation Service has been some time in the making – we first flagged it in Reference Data Review back in February – but it is a significant move for the company as it pursues a managed services strategy. The deal will be finalised on 1 July, at…
Thomson Reuters Sets Plans for Newly Acquired Pricing Partners
Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of Paris-based Pricing Partners formalises a working relationship between the companies, adding derivatives evaluated pricing services and risk analytics, global reach, expertise and an expansion opportunity to Thomson Reuters Pricing Services. The acquisition was closed last week and while no financial details were disclosed, Thomson Reuters has confirmed that Pricing Partners will…
A-Team Group Webinar Discusses the Trend Towards On-Demand and Real-Time Valuations
Regulators and participants in fixed income markets are calling for more frequent valuation updates, but an emerging trend towards real-time valuations will be neither universal nor useful for all securities. A webinar hosted last week by A-Team Group editor- in-chief Andrew Delaney, and joined by experts from Bloomberg, Interactive Data and S&P Capital IQ, discussed…
Exchange Data International Extends its Commitment to Emerging and Frontier Markets
Exchange Data International (EDI) has extended its commitment to emerging and frontier markets with a new office in Agadir, Morocco. The office will not only increase the company’s capacity to translate corporate actions data from French and Arabic speaking countries, but also act as the base for EDI’s first foray into macroeconomic data. The Agadir…