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Swift Struggles to Stay in the Game as FSB Favours Federated Approach to LEI

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has veered away from existing plans for the infrastructure that will support legal entity identifiers (LEIs), proposing a federated model for the distribution and registration of LEI numbers rather than a single and central global registration authority. This could be a significant blow to Swift, which was selected last year…

Andrew’s Blog – Risk Architectures R Us

For those of you who missed last month’s seminar in London on approaches to risk data, fret no more: We will be continuing the debate next Thursday in a webinar with our friends from Lloyds Bank, Sybase and Fidessa; sign up here, it’s free, and it’ll also give you a flavour of what we have…

US Data Transparency Coalition Focuses on Federal Data in Capital Markets

The US Data Transparency Coalition (DTC) introduced last week to advocate for the standardisation of federal data published online, warns that without significant changes in electronic data creation and management capital markets remain open to a crisis on the scale of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. If that is a worst case scenario of…

Andrew’s Blog – It’s All About Risk (Data)

This week sees the release of an industry briefing we prepared for Sybase entitled ‘Managing Risk Data in the Siloed Enterprise’. I’ll be presenting the key findings at an event in London on Tuesday, where I’ll be joined by a group of risk managers and data architects – as well as Sybase’s Stuart Grant, IDC…

Thomson Reuters Puts Onus on Management to Improve Performance

Thomson Reuters is pinning hopes for growth in its Financial & Risk business on the management team formed early this year under the auspices of president David Craig, and a change in attitude to Eikon – no longer a strategy, instead one of many products. The late 2011 shake-up and reorganisation of Thomson Reuters that…

Demand for Data Management Driven by Risk and Regulation

Cadis, the global EDM specialist, has secured 19 new global clients in 2011. These firms benefit from cleansed, validated and centralised data to feed into their risk, trading and compliance platforms. New notable clients include Prudential, ING, Loomis Sayles, Robeco, SCOR Global Investments and Indexium. “2012 will be the year of data overload for financial…

FSB Establishes Expert Group to Make LEI Implementation Proposals

Apparently addressing growing industry concerns about the prospect of delays in adoption of the long-awaited legal entity identifier (LEI), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) has set up an expert group to make what it describes as “concrete proposals” on the implementation of a global LEI system. At its meeting in Basel this week, the FSB…

DataFlux Targets Firms’ Semantics with New Data Management Platform

DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to…

A Model for Data Governance – Does Your Organization Really Have One?

The current focus on new regulations, and their impact on risk management practices, has turned the attention of financial institutions to data. It is increasingly evident that accurate and consistent data is key both to compliance with incoming regulations and to reaping the benefits of a robust risk management strategy. Business managers have come to…

Latest Release of DataFlux Data Management Platform Expands Support for MDM and Data Governance

DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the general availability of the DataFlux Data Management Platform 2.2, a single platform for data management, data quality and data integration. The product also provides enhanced master data management (MDM) capabilities and adds features to allow business analysts and data stewards to initiate and manage…