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Markit Integrates Datasets to Deliver Enhanced iNAV for ETPs

Markit has integrated its fixed income evaluated pricing and fair value data services with exchange traded fund data to deliver an enhanced intraday net asset value (iNAV) service for exchange traded products (ETPs). The service is available immediately and is designed to improve transparency around ETP pricing. The company has offered an iNAV service for…

Markit and Genpact Release KYC Service

Markit’s tie-up with business process specialist Genpact, which was made back in September 2013, has come to fruition in a Know Your Customer (KYC) service designed in conjunction with Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. Called Markit | Genpact KYC Services, the companies’ KYC offering is based on Markit’s Counterparty Manager service and Genpact’s…

Data Management Summit: Regulation and Risk Require a New Approach

Regulation and risk are driving a new approach to data management across financial markets, but they are not the only drivers as firms seek cost reductions, operational efficiencies and a means of using data as a business asset. These issues and more were debated by a panel of experts at last week’s A-Team Group Data…

Data Management Summit: Regulation and Cost Drive Adoption of Data Utilities

The potential of reference data utilities to cut data management costs and improve data quality was a hot topic at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York. Most speakers and delegates agreed that data utilities will become part of the capital markets landscape, but exactly how they will operate and how the…

Data Management Summit: A Keynote on Data Utilities

Data management utilities could cut the cost of data, ease the burden of in-house data management and provide a solution that will deliver data not only to meet the requirements of today’s regulations, but also those of emerging regulations. Presenting a keynote speech at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit – which for the…

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…