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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…

AIM Software Extends Market Reach with Business Applications for Data Management

AIM Software is challenging competitors in the enterprise data management (EDM) space with a business approach to data management that includes fixed price, packaged applications covering market data, reference data and corporate actions data. The Vienna, Austria based company says these solutions, plus a ‘Go West’ strategy focused on expansion in the US and UK,…

Recorded Webinar: Entity Data Management & the LEI

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. As the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard gains acceptance, institutions are coming to grips with their entity data, adopting a more entity-centric basis for their operations. What benefits are they realizing, and has the effort been worthwhile? Webinar Date: March 20, 2014 Speakers:…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: That Was the Week that Was

I’m sure I’ve used that headline before but it seems apt: two conferences in one week, plus a data management training session in conjunction with our friends at EDM Works and JWG. Yes, last week was quite a week. For those of you that attended, I’m sure you’ll agree that Thursday’s Data Management Summit was…

Data Management Summit: Arguing the Case for Reference Data Utilities

Reference data utilities offer financial firms cost effective and flexible data management, improved data quality and the potential to standardise enterprise data. Arguing the case for data utilities as the only way forward for data management, Adam Cottingham, vice president of data management services at SmartStream, detailed their benefits in a keynote presentation at last…

Data Management Summit: Regulatory Challenges Demand Better Data Management & Risk Data Aggregation

The increasing complexity and more onerous obligations of new regulatory initiatives, particularly the recent EMIR deadlines, is demanding more sophisticated data management and better risk data aggregation programmes at banks and other financial institutions, according to industry experts at the A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit (DMS) last week. The panellists agreed that too much of…

Recorded Webinar: Enterprise Solutions – Data Governance

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Devesh Shukla, Global Head of Reference Data Product Development, Bloomberg, discusses the challenges involved with data governance. Webinar Date: February 28, 2014 Speakers: Sponsors:

Recorded Webinar: Enterprise Solutions – Entity Remediation

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Devesh Shukla, Global Head of Reference Data Product Development, Bloomberg and Peter Warms, Head of Product Development for Global Data and Symbology, Bloomberg discuss entity remediation. Webinar Date: February 28, 2014 Speakers: Sponsors:  

Recorded Webinar: Enterprise Solutions – Solvency II

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Devesh Shukla, Global Head of Reference Data Product Development, Bloomberg and Cynthia Sachs, Global Head of BVAL Product Development, Bloomberg discuss Solvency II. Webinar Date: February 28, 2014 Speakers: Sponsors:

Euroclear Bank and SmartStream Build Out Central Data Utility

When Euroclear Bank and SmartStream joined forces in November 2012 to deliver a centralised reference data utility, many financial services firms were beginning to realise the need to improve data management and deliver higher quality data at a lower cost. Fast forward two years and the pressure to review and renew failing data management models…