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Addressing the Reference Data Challenges of SFTR

The EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), which comes into effect in April 2020, is a data-heavy transaction reporting regulation along the lines of MiFIR and EMIR, but has a significant reference data element as well. The regulation is extensive, with some 150 data fields in its mandatory regulatory reports, a dozen of which will…

SmartStream RDU Releases SFTR Security Reference Data Service

The SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU) has extended its offering with a cloud-based security reference data service designed to simplify and enable firms to meet the EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) requirements. SFTR requires banks and investment firms to start reporting securities financing transactions (SFTs) to a registered trade repository beginning April 14, 2020….

Knowledge Graph Technology – The Holy Grail of Data Management?

Data siloes are proliferating, data lakes are overflowing, regulators are asking for access to more granular data, and data management teams are looking at how to deal with enormous data volumes in capital markets, understand both structured and unstructured data, make data accessible and contextual for business users, and turn it into a strategic asset….

GDPR One Year On

By Nick Murphy, Associate Director, GDPR Integrated Technology and Solution, 3 Lines of Defence Consulting. A lot was written about GDPR in the press and a lot was discussed prior to go-live last year, including at the A-Team Group RegTech Insight conferences. Now just into its second year, we ask: how successful is the regulation…

Data Management – Why is it all so Difficult and Costly?

The financial industry spends $28.5 billion on externally sourced market data and a further $2-3 billion cleaning it up so that is can be used internally. Why is this so difficult and costly, and what can the industry and market participants do about it? Peter Moss, CEO of the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), will…

20/20 in 2020 – How to Gain Value from your Unstructured Data

Is your organisation looking to get better visibility of its unstructured data and gain value from the data? If the answer is yes, look no further and find out how to do this by joining a keynote that will be presented by Tony Brownlee, president of Kingland, at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in New…

Axioma Enhances Canada Equity Risk Model

Axioma, a provider of enterprise risk management, portfolio management and regulatory reporting solutions, has added a new Canada equity risk model (AXCA4) to its next-generation Equity Factor Risk Model suite. The release builds on existing risk models, offering enhanced country-specific content to meet the risk-management needs of investors. The estimation universe for the Canada model…

EDI Adds Costs Basis Solution

Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of corporate actions, pricing and reference data, has introduced Worldwide Equity Cost Basis, a service that enables users to track both a security’s cost basis, its evolution and its descendant’s cost basis and evolution up to the current date. The service is part of the company’s expansion into value…

DSB Industry Consultation Calls for Improved Data Quality and Cybersecurity

Following our recent report on the results of the Derivatives Service Bureau’s (DSB’s) first 2019 industry consultation the Bureau has today released the results of its second 2019 industry consultation. In line with the first 2019 report, the second shows ongoing industry interest in further analysis of DSB functionality with a view to the delivery…

Kingland Innovates to Meet Market Need for More Effective and Efficient Data Usage

Kingland is responding to financial institutions’ growing desire to use and manage their data to better effect and greater efficiency with the provision of solutions including artificial intelligence (AI) and text analytics. It is also focusing on firms’ ongoing challenges around core functionality such as entity data management for Know Your Customer (KYC), enterprise risk…