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UK FSA’s SCV: If You’re a Deposit Taking Institution, it Applies to You
As noted by Reference Data Review recently), the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) incoming Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, which are part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), will require a significant amount of effort to create new data linkages in order for the institutions covered by the regulation to be ready to report…
Ex-HSBC EDM Head Hinds Joins Credit Suisse as Programme Manager for Reference Data
Following her exit from HSBC at the start of this year, data management champion and regular FIMA speaker Sally Hinds has resurfaced as Credit Suisse’s new manager in charge of running the firm’s global reference data governance programme. At HSBC she spent more than four years as global head of EDM of the bank’s Global…
XBRL US Campaigns to Extend Tagging into ABS Markets for Source Documents
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may have mandated XBRL tagging for financial reporting but XBRL US is also keen to extend its reach into the asset backed securities (ABS) markets. In a recent testimony to the US Domestic Policy Subcommittee Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Mark Bolgiano, president and CEO of XBRL US, recommended…
Investec Asset Management Planning to Rationalise London and Cape Town Data Hubs This Year, Says Schoonraad
Following its implementation of the Netik InterView data warehouse in separate iterations at its Cape Town and London operations, which began back in 2004 and was completed last year, Investec Asset Management is now planning to rationalise these two data warehouses so that it can operate from a single global data warehouse. Waldi Schoonraad, UK…
Auris Gestion Privee Chooses Pricing Partners for the Independent Valuation of its Structured Products
Pricing Partners announced today that Auris Gestion Privée has selected the Price-it Online platform for the independent valuation of its structured products. Marc de Saint Denis, chairman of Auris Gestion Privée, commented: “Our company had been looking for a reliable and recognized solution for some time now. After carefully evaluating several tentative solutions, we have…
FactSet Research Systems Witnesses Revenue Uptick of 0.5% for Second Quarter
After a difficult first quarter of fiscal 2010, data and analytics vendor FactSet Research Systems seems to be experiencing a return to form with an overall revenue increase of 0.5% for the second quarter on previous year’s figures. Phil Hadley, chairman and CEO of the vendor, indicates that he believes the investment in its business…
IOSCO Elaborates on Data Template for Hedge Funds Risk Monitoring Purposes
Last month, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee published the details of the new agreed template for the global collection of hedge fund data in order to better manage systemic risk. These new data requirements are aimed at bringing a new level of transparency to the traditionally opaque sector but will, in…
GoldenSource Releases Market Data Solution for End-to-end Data Transparency
The ability of risk managers to adapt to changing regulatory environments and achieve more up to date and accessible views of immediate risk positions, has long been held back by the siloed treatment of market and reference data. Today at FIMA NY, GoldenSource announced the release of the GoldenSource Market Data Solution (GSMDS) allowing chief…
PolarLake Announces Reference Data Policy Engine Based on Semantics Technology
PolarLake today announced the availability of the PolarLake Reference Data Policy Engine within the PolarLake Reference Data Distribution (RDD) product. The policy engine uses semantics technologies embedded within a business application to enable business operations and technical staff to define reference data usage control policies. This includes: Data access control policies based on user and…
Maples Finance Adopts Paladyne’s Industry-Standard Technology Platform
Paladyne Systems, a solutions provider to the global hedge fund industry, today announced that Maples Finance, an independent global fund services provider with US$30 billion in assets under administration, has successfully implemented the Paladyne product suite as its middle and back office solution. Maples Finance licensed Paladyne’s Application Service Provider (ASP) platform, a comprehensive software,…