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Data Management Summit – the Challenges of Corporate Actions
Automating corporate actions and reducing risk associated with manual intervention is proving difficult to pin down as the financial services industry struggles with a lack of standardisation, a growing volume and complexity of events, and different regional interpretations of events. A panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit grappled with the problems…
Interactive Data Adds Extensible Service for Financial Transaction Tax
Interactive Data has added a data service to support the identification of instruments liable for French and Italian financial transaction taxes (FTTs). The service shifts the burden of maintaining and updating lists of securities that fall within the scope of transaction tax in each jurisdiction from financial firms to Interactive Data, and is ready to…
Data Management Summit – Paolo Mittiga Maps the Road Ahead
Paolo Mittiga, data management domain partner at Wipro Technologies, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit (DMS) outlining a future of data management that will focus on the legal entity and real-time access to all data and be underpinned by technologies including semantic logic and dynamic ontology. Mittiga was welcomed…
Outsourcing Reference Data Management
The past 12 months has seen the emergence of new players offering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services for Reference Data Management. These new arrivals expand the range of options available to financial institutions for addressing the challenges of regulatory compliance, operational cost reduction and scalability. But BPO has other benefits, and innovative adopters have benefited…
StatPro Selects SIX Financial Information to Support Equity Pricing Snapshot Service
StatPro has selected SIX Financial Information’s intraday pricing service to automate delivery of its delayed equity pricing snapshot service and expand the universe of data coverage within the service. The portfolio analytics specialist considered a number of potential partners before selecting SIX Financial Information on the basis of its high-quality data, and has dropped previous…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Fever
It’s finally here…. Our Data Management Summit takes place in London next Tuesday, March 12. It’s taken a lot of begging, bribing and cajoling, but I think I can say that we’ve got the best possible line-up for the event. In short, for anyone in the reference / risk / enterprise and related technologies space,…
EDI Teams with Derivative Partners to Deliver Independent Valuation of Structured Products
Exchange Data International (EDI) has forged an agreement with Derivative Partners to offer an independent valuation service for structured products and complex derivatives. The service was introduced this week in response to increasing client demand for independent portfolio valuations designed to meet regulatory requirements for transparency. Zurich-based Derivative Partners provides daily valuations, calculating over 200,000…
Experts Debate the Timeline, Benefits and Challenges of the Global LEI System
The expert panel on this week’s A-Team Hot Topics webinar on global legal entity identifier (LEI) expects the new standard to be fully operational by the end of 2013, as it builds momentum following next month’s official roll-out. With the establishment of a Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) early this year, the creation of a Central…
Recorded Webinar: Preparing For Primetime – How to Benefit from the Global LEI
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Much has been made of the initiative to create a global standard legal entity identifier (LEI). Its backers have taken great pains to explain how the new identifier will improve transparency and contribute to the ongoing regulatory war against systemic risk. After months of…
Talking Reference Data With Andrew Delaney: Markit Set to Join Corporate Actions Fray as It Ponders DTCC’s GCA VS
At the risk of sounding like the proverbial Boy Who Cried Wolf, it now seems that Markit is at due diligence phase in its attempt to acquire the DTCC’s Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS). You’ll recall that just a few weeks ago Markit abandoned its interest in EDM stalwart Asset Control, ostensibly having…