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Recorded Webinar: Regulation and Risk as Data Management Drivers
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording by registering here. As the regulatory onslaught continues, more forward-thinking financial institutions are seeking ways to build a data management and data governance framework that spans regulations and provides a methodology for expanding scope as the regulations continue to evolve. How can this be achieved?…
Talking Reference Data With Andrew Delaney: Back to School
Our five-year-old was stunned this morning when I told her she was starting school tomorrow, this after having spent weeks, nay months, in preparation – buying uniform, signing up for music lessons, selecting a lunchbox, choosing sandwich flavours and the like. Happily, she was thrilled with the news. I feel equally thrilled to be back…
SunGard Measures the Gap Between Data Reporting and Business Intelligence
The gap between financial data reporting and business intelligence has still to be closed at many firms as they struggle to move away from after-the-fact reporting and adopt proactive and investigative reporting strategies. The gap is often exacerbated by the use of multiple systems, but it can be narrowed by improving data management, automating reporting…
Are Your Data Management Ops Future Proofed for Regulations?
Short term approaches to each new regulation that comes along are relatively easy to fund. But for true success, a long-term approach should be considered now that will help future proof your organisation against further regulatory change. A-Team Group surveyed 15 Tier 1 buy- and sell-side institutions about their views on a utility – rather than…
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Risk Require a New Approach
Regulation and risk are driving a new approach to data management across financial markets, but they are not the only drivers as firms seek cost reductions, operational efficiencies and a means of using data as a business asset. These issues and more were debated by a panel of experts at last week’s A-Team Group Data…
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Cost Drive Adoption of Data Utilities
The potential of reference data utilities to cut data management costs and improve data quality was a hot topic at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York. Most speakers and delegates agreed that data utilities will become part of the capital markets landscape, but exactly how they will operate and how the…
Opinion: From Lehman to Amazon – Rethinking Financial Data Management
By Richard Petti, CEO, Asset Control The tide of regulation is rising inexorably, swamping the financial services sector with ever more prescriptive disclosure requirements; from Dodd-Frank to Basel III and Solvency II, the regulatory response to the enduring financial crisis continues to evolve but the direction of change is constant. It’s widely acknowledged that the…
Etrali introduces Check Suite to Support Compliance with FCA and CFTC Rules on Call Recording
Etrali Trading Solutions has pulled together functionality it offers around the recording, storing and retrieval of traders’ voice calls to deliver Etrali Check Suite, a solution designed to help firms maintain compliance on the trading floor. The company previously provided on-site engineer checks of recording solutions as part of a managed service, but has packaged…
Opinion: The Pricing & Reference Data Community – Helping You Tackle Regulatory Challenges
By Marion Leslie, Managing Director, Pricing & Reference Services, Thomson Reuters The current barrage of regulatory reforms sweeping the global financial services industry poses an enormous challenge for all sectors. These changes are impacting banks, broker/dealers, insurance companies, institutional asset managers, hedge funds and their asset servicers such as fund administrators, custodians and prime brokers…
LEI Adoption Will Raise Standards, Governance & Transparency, says Webinar Panel – Even if It Isn’t Obvious Yet
The turmoil and confusion caused by the adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI’s) for EMIR reporting last month will be worth it in the end, was the overriding conclusion of our expert webinar panel last week, who expect to eventually see meaningful improvements to industry standards, governance and transparency as a result. The panel comprising…