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Markit EDM Lays Out 2017 Roadmap

Markit EDM, the enterprise data management (EDM) business of Markit that merged with IHS in July 2016, has laid out its roadmap for 2017 including functional expansion of its EDM platform and a focus on delivering improved data visualisation to business users. Working with IHS, a provider of proprietary information, analytics and solutions to a…

2017 – The Year of Data

2017 may be the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, but in the capital markets calendar it is the Year of Data – data that will drive regulatory compliance, business transformation, client satisfaction, improved performance and more! Of course, data has been in the picture since way before the last Year of the…

A Web of Complexity

By Martijn Groot, vice president of product management, Asset Control At the centre of financial services risk management and regulatory compliance is the convergence of data from a huge range of information silos, departments, product lines, customers and risk categories. Risk and finance are at the end of an extensive chain, examining the consolidated threads,…

The Challenges and Opportunities of Data Lineage

Data lineage is driven by regulation and impeded by technology complexity and poor understanding, although once these impediments are tackled, successful implementation can yield significant business and operational benefits. The challenges and opportunities of establishing a sustainable solution for data lineage were discussed during a recent A-Team Group webinar that was hosted by A-Team editor…

Recorded Webinar: How to establish a sustainable solution for data lineage

The implementation of data lineage is complex but necessary, driven by regulation such as BCBS 239 and internal needs to gain a better understanding of risk, reduce systems complexity and eliminate duplicate data and processes. The webinar will discuss the essential elements of data lineage, how they can be implemented, and the beneficial outcomes of…

Data Management Summit Discusses How Best to Set up and Develop Data Governance

Data governance was a hot topic at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit (DMS) in New York City with Sanjay Saxena, head of enterprise data governance at Northern Trust, presenting best practices for setting up data governance, a panel discussing how to evolve data governance, and many more questions being asked and comments being made on…

A-Team DMS Tackles Challenges of Big Data, Regulation, Data Value and More

A-Team Group’s New York City Data Management Summit (DMS) kicked off with a keynote presentation on the 800lb gorilla of big data, and panel discussions dedicated to regulation and the data management response for 2017, and challenges that are keeping chief data officers (CDOs) awake at night. Michael Stonebraker, adjunct professor at MIT and co-founder…

Best Practice Approaches to Economic Sanctions and Related Securities

Economic sanctions can pose difficult data management and compliance problems, particularly at the securities level, but automated services that identify and manage securities related to sanctions can help firms improve compliance and avoid penalties for breaches. The challenges of effective sanctions data monitoring, as well as the opportunities of getting this right, were discussed during…

Winners of the 2016 Data Management Review Awards

This year’s DMR awards ceremony was a tremendous event with 18 award winners, an entertaining address by guest speaker Mark Foster, one of Britain’s most decorated male swimmers, and a five-star lunch in the splendour of the Merchant Taylors’ Hall. A-Team Group CEO, Angela Wilbraham, and President, Andrew Delaney, hosted the event and were joined…

Recorded Webinar: Meeting the high stakes challenge of effective sanctions data monitoring

Identifying securities related to a sanctioned domicile or company is a straightforward concept, but in practice, it is a far more challenging task for compliance professionals. Receiving a list of sanctions isn’t enough. In order to accurately define and maintain your ‘do not trade’ list, you need to identify all the securities related to each…