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DataFlux Adds Data Governance, Workflow Enhancements to Master Data Management Solution
DataFlux , a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the release of the DataFlux qMDM Solution v3.0, the latest release of its enterprise MDM technology designed from a single data management framework. This version of DataFlux qMDM includes an enhanced user interface to provide more comprehensive data governance and workflow controls for data…
EXCLUSIVE: DTCC’s Chief Data Officer Ron Jordan on His Experiences at NYSE, Regulatory Developments and DTCC’s Future Plans
Earlier this year, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) appointed ex-NYSE Euronext market data guru Ron Jordan to the position of chief data officer (CDO) and gave him the responsibility of guiding DTCC’s commercial and regulatory data business activities. Reference Data Review speaks to Jordan about his career highlights in the exchange sector and how these…
FSB Proposes New Resolution Planning Requirements for SIFIs, Data Fragmentation Issues Highlighted
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has this week produced a consultation paper setting out its proposals for new policy measures to ensure the effective resolution of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). The proposals cover new resolution powers and tools for national authorities, cross border arrangements, resolution planning requirements and measures to remove any current obstacles…
Teradata’s Krishna Champions Data and IT Focused Amendments to OFR’s Structure, Talks up Big Data
Data warehousing solution vendor Teradata has thrown its hat into the ring to act as a key technology partner to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) and Dilip Krishna, vice president of financial services at the vendor, testified during last week’s government organised roundtable on systemic risk about the benefits of a big data…
OFR’s Ref Data Could be a Cyber Attack Target, Warns Sans Institute’s Paller
As well as coming under attack for its central theory of collecting data for systemic risk analysis during a government organised roundtable last week (see more on which here), the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) also came under fire for the potential information security threat it could pose. Alan Paller, founder and research director…
Serious Scientific Task Awaits the OFR and FSOC, Says Systemic Risk Focused Academic Liechty
As well as the data standardisation challenge, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) also face the “significant scientific task” of understanding how to use this data, according to academic John Liechty, professor of marketing and statistics at Smeal College of Business for Penn State University and director for…
Black Swan Author Taleb Highlights the Potential Negative Side Effects of the OFR and Centralised Risk Management
By taking a naïve view of how to measure risk in an unpredictable market environment, the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) could potentially carry on the negative side effects of the financial crisis, according to epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is most famous for his book on unpredictability The Black Swan. Speaking as a…
US Treasury’s Berner Expounds on the Benefits of the OFR, Discusses the LEI and an Upcoming Conference on Data
This week, the US government organised a roundtable event to discuss the developments around tracking systemic risk and the establishment of the Office of Financial Research. Representing the OFR, Richard Berner, counsellor to the US Department of the Treasury’s Tim Geithner, championed the benefits of reference data standardisation, the recent progress made around setting legal…
Virginie’s Blog – Does Corporate Actions Data Have a Place in a Utility?
The same old discussions about STP and standardisation in the corporate actions space may play out year after year (see my recent blog on which here), but one interesting (and newer, if not entirely new) idea discussed at last week’s CorpActions 2011 conference was the concept of corporate actions event data being stored in a…
Sifma Led Industry Coalition Backs DTCC/Swift as Facilities Manager and Issuer for ISO LEI, ANNA for Support Role
It’s official, the frontrunners in the bid to act as issuer and facilities manager for the incoming legal entity identifier (LEI), Swift and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), have received the backing of the 17 strong Sifma led coalition of industry associations and firms (some interesting dynamics in the makeup of the group…