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Recorded Webinar: Balancing Regulatory Transparency with Data Protection
Balancing the use of personal data required by Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID) as part of its transparency regime with the personal data protection rules set out in General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a tough task – tell us everything, but keep it secret – that many financial institutions are struggling with….
Data Management Summit Discusses Digitalisation, Technology, Diversity and More!
A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit hit an all-time high in New York City last week with a packed auditorium, buzzing exhibition hall, great line-up of speakers, market leading sponsors and interactive discussion throughout the day on how to deliver the next level of data management and business success. Keynote presentations Suvrat Bansal, head of innovation,…
Creating a Data First Mindset in the Capital Markets Sector
By: Clive Bellmore, CEO Europe and Africa, BackOffice Associates Analogies about how vital data is to the digital economy are bountiful. It has even been branded ‘the new gold’, a critical and precious asset that directly impacts business outcomes for companies across the globe and in all sectors. And never more so than in the…
Bloomberg Eases Data Access and Reduces Costs with Enterprise Access Point
Bloomberg has responded to customer calls for easier access to data with Enterprise Access Point, an online platform that provides normalised reference, pricing, regulatory and historical datasets to Bloomberg data license holders. Following the launch of the platform last week, we caught up with Gerard Francis, global head of enterprise data at Bloomberg, to find…
Tackling the TRIM Challenge – How Banks Can Get their Data Quality Processes up to Scratch
By Martijn Groot, Vice President of Product Management, Asset Control The Targeted Review of Internal Models (TRIM) is underway and significantly impacting banks across the eurozone. TRIM is an initiative of the European Central Bank (ECB), designed to assess whether the internal risk assessment models used by banks supervised by the ECB, comply with regulatory…
Challenges and Opportunities of Data Lineage Implementation
Data lineage is critical to regulatory compliance, cost-effective data management, and arming the business with accurate and timely information on which to make decisions. It is also challenging to implement, difficult to sustain and often suffers from a lack of management buy-in and funding. A recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group on how to get data…
The Digital Transformation of Financial Reporting: Why XBRL Should be on Everyone’s Radar
By Ken Krupa, Chief Technology Officer, MarkLogic The standard corporate financial reporting language known as eXtensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, has been around for more than 20 years. Based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XBRL is a common global mechanism for communicating and sharing data across…
IBM Watson Financial Services: Focus on the First Line of Defence
Banks are spending too much money trying to comply with big-ticket regulations because the tools they are using are not efficient enough. That is the view of IBM Watson Financial Services, which is in the process of expanding its regtech portfolio based on AI and machine learning, and covering governance, risk and compliance (GRC), financial…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II: How to optimise data management for transaction reporting
As MiFID II hits the six-month mark, how well is your organisation handling transaction reporting? Is it ready to meet the LEI mandate that will take effect on July 3 and require all parties to transactions to have LEIs? And how is it coping with sourcing and managing ISINs required for OTC derivatives reporting? The…
Deutsche Bank Transformation Moves Reconciliation Services to SmartStream
Deutsche Bank has selected SmartStream Technologies’ Centre of Excellence (CoE) to provide an off-site operations platform including three services that will allow the bank to streamline, simplify and reduce the costs of its reconciliations environment. The decision to use the SmartStream managed service utility is part of the bank’s transformation programme. The three managed services…