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Solving the Operational Risk Management Puzzle

Operational risk management has emerged as a major challenge as a slew of regulations affecting financial institutions across the board – from universal banks to insurance companies and their asset servicers – aims to boost transparency in order to mitigate systemic risk. The emerging regulations are emphasizing data governance and requiring firms to ‘show their…

Opinion: Why the Client On-Boarding Conundrum Will Fuel Master Data Management (MDM) in Capital Markets

Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia for GoldenSource, explains how MDM can provide answers to the client on-boarding challenge facing financial institutions. Taking one step forward and two steps back – that’s what it must feel like for financial institutions at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution…

MoneyMate Rebrands Fund ProductMaster Platform as Accudelta and Extends Capabilities

MoneyMate Group has rebranded its Fund ProductMaster managed data service to Accudelta, creating a separate business line for the service that will sit alongside the group’s utility for secure data sharing, Silverfinch, and its market data vendor, Longboat Analytics. The rebrand coincides with improvements to the data distribution platform, including the addition of support for…

Opinion: Why the Client Onboarding Conundrum will Fuel Master Data Management in Capital Markets

By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia, GoldenSource Taking one step forward and two steps back is what financial institutions must feel they are doing at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution to manage all reference, counterparty, client and customer data in one place ticks all the…

Opinion: Data Management – Keeping the Financial Market Airborne

By Martijn Groot, VP Product Strategy, Asset Control In this new era of stress testing, how many financial institutions risk being grounded by the financial equivalent of air traffic control for failing to meet the new, challenging risk requirements? The production of risk and stress data is no longer a one off risk management exercise…

Time to put Legal Contract Data Front & Centre

By Akber Datoo, Founder and Partner, D2 Legal Technology LLP Every financial institution knows the essential importance of legal contract information – it underpins everything from regulatory compliance and the management/optimisation of capital, liquidity and collateral. So why are just 16% of organisations completely satisfied with the current level of contract data accuracy? The implications…

Asset Control Adds Risk Data Management Component to AC Plus Platform

Asset Control has added a risk data management component designed to help risk managers improve risk data governance to its AC Plus data management platform. Called AC Risk Data Manager, the component uses the underlying data management platform to integrate risk data from across an organisation and allows risk managers to view and manage risk…

A-Team Webinar Debates the Data Management Challenges of Solvency II

The January 2016 deadline for Solvency II compliance is fast approaching, leaving many insurance firms, asset managers and third-party administrators with much to do as they tackle data management issues that are raised by the regulation and include huge data volumes, multiple data sources, new data types and complex data aggregation.  The data management challenges…

A-Team Webinar Discusses Next Generation Enterprise Data Management

Technology options including cloud solutions, managed services and data utilities can take enterprise data management (EDM) to the next level and deliver business benefits, but there are challenges along the way as firms contend with legacy systems, increasing regulation and the ongoing divide between business and IT. The challenges and opportunities of emerging EDM solutions…

Rimes Buy-Side Survey Shows Room for Improvement in Data Quality and Governance

Data quality and data governance are the top data management priorities cited by buy-side firms in Rimes’ 2015 Buy-Side Survey. The survey respondents, particularly asset managers, also note that a lack of support for data governance and the limitations of existing operating models are hindering business agility and holding back strategy changes. Now in it…