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Italian Central Bank Director Stresses Importance of Regulatory Data Consistency Across Europe
In light of the increase in cross border activity and foreign financial institution entry into European domestic markets over recent years, Anna Maria Tarantola, deputy director general of the Bank of Italy, has been talking up the need for common information sharing methodologies and central databases across Europe. Last year, Tarantola discussed these issues with…
Japanese FSA Produces Reform Blueprint, Bank of Japan’s Shirakawa Talks up Risk Management
The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has released its blueprint for an overhaul of the country’s financial services regulatory framework, including forcing more transparency in the OTC derivatives markets, new trade reporting requirements and risk management provisions. Last week, the governor of the Bank of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, also spoke about the importance of Japanese…
EDM Council’s Atkin Elaborates on the Industry Group’s Progress This Year
Following on from last week’s holiday party and end of the year meeting, EDM Council managing director Mike Atkin has produced a 2009 update report on the data industry group’s progress this year. The work of the group has proved sometimes controversial, but the EDM Council certainly cannot be accused of resting on its laurels….
SmartCo’s Mougin Talks up CounterpartyLink Partnership
Following the announcement earlier in the week that entity data vendor CounterpartyLink and SmartCo have integrated their offerings, Pascal Mougin, chairman of the EDM vendor speaks to A-Team Group about his perspective on the tie up. Mougin explains that the choice to work with the entity data vendor was a relatively simple one: “CounterpartyLink is…
Siperian Launches New Solution to Help Financial Services Companies Operationalise Customer Centricity
Siperian, a provider of a multi-domain master data management (MDM) platform, today announced the availability of its Extended Customer View Solution for financial services companies. The company’s latest solution offers a flexible and scalable approach that enables financial services companies to operationalise customer centricity while increasing business agility and speed. Siperian’s Extended Customer View presents…
SmartCo Teams up with CounterpartyLink for New Entity Data Solution
Given the intense focus on counterparty risk in the post-Lehman world, it is no surprise that various members of the vendor community are teaming together to tackle the entity data space. One such partnership has resulted in the integration of EDM vendor SmartCo’s DataHub solution with CounterpartyLink’s issuer, client and counterparty data. James Redfern, head…
EDM Council Publishes its Naughty and Nice List for 2010: Some Possible Points of Contention?
There can be no doubt that systemic risk is ‘in’ for 2010; regulators will make sure it’s a key focus for financial institutions via key legislation such as that around concentration risk. But has the concept of a reference data utility really replaced the idea of managed data services? A few vendors may disagree with…
CEBS Publishes Concentration Risk Guidelines: Data Management Systems to be Thrown into Spotlight
In line with planned risk related deliverables, the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) has published another consultation paper, this time on the management of concentration risk under the supervisory review process. The paper is available for comment until 31 March next year and is aimed at providing market participants with a holistic approach to…
SmartCo Partners with CounterpartyLink and Delivers New Entity Data Connector
SmartCo, a data management software company which specialises in the financial sector, and CounterpartyLink, a specialist information provider in the research, maintenance and distribution of global issuer, client and counterparty data for compliance and risk management purposes, have announced the integration of CounterpartyLink data into SmartCo DataHub. CounterpartyLink’s legal entity data is used globally by…
Quantifi Releases Paper Addressing Evolution of Counterparty Credit Risk Management
Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, released today a white paper titled “The Evolution of Counterparty Credit Risk – An Insider’s View,” co-authored by David Kelly, Quantifi’s director of Credit Product Development, and Jon Gregory, author of “Counterparty Credit Risk: The New Challenge for Global Financial Markets.”…