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Insight: How to Adapt your Data Strategy to Changing Times

As the debut Data Management Summit Europe Virtual from the A-Team Group fast approaches (book your place here), and as the ongoing complexities of operating in a post-COVID 19 world start to become clear, it is imperative that firms evaluate their current approach to data management in order to identify the emerging gaps in their current provision, and…

Do Banks Really Have their Data Houses in Order Ahead of Dividends Season?

By Annelotte De Nanassy, Senior Product Manager, SIX. With dividends season just around the corner, how many financial institutions can truly say they have full confidence in their ability to handle a sharp increase in corporate actions efficiently? The cyclical nature of dividend payments, updated several times in their lifecycle, means constant monitoring is required…

Not So Harmonious After All: Accommodating AnaCredit’s Maturing Requirements

By Frederic Bernard, Manager EMEA Capital & Credit, AxiomSL. In response to the credit crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) launched the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) project in 2011 to create a harmonized database and framework of rules regarding the credit exposure of credit institutions and other loan-providing financial firms. Yet since the inception of…

CSDR – The Clock is Ticking…

The Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR), first published way back in 2014, is finally on its way in – and although final implementation may be delayed from September 2020 to February 2021, that doesn’t take away from its status as one of the biggest data management challenges for financial institutions this year. The new regulation…

Welcome to DMS Virtual – A Groundbreaking Model for Today’s New Normal

Events have overtaken us this week (so to speak), and while we have put tremendous effort into our Data Management Summit this year, it became apparent that due to health and safety concerns in addition to event attendance restrictions for many participants, our live event will no longer be able to go ahead tomorrow. However,…

Regulatory Equivalence: How Brexit Could Trigger Better Risk Exposure Modelling

By Volker Lainer, VP of Product Management, GoldenSource. When it comes to the future relationship of EU/UK financial services, alignment has been touched on regularly by policy makers and the UK has begun a series of assessments for its post-Brexit vision for financial services. Either way, the EU has ruled out access unless the UK…

SWIFT Delays ISO 20022 a Further Year

In its March 2020 meeting, SWIFT endorsed ambitious plans for the group to support financial institutions’ payments and securities businesses – but confirmed that implementation of the ISO 20022 would be delayed by 12 months, following “feedback from the community.” ISO 20022 aims to create a single standardisation approach (including methodology, process, repository) for all…

Entity Data Management Handbook – Sixth Edition

High-profile and punitive penalties handed out to large financial institutions for non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations have catapulted entity data management up the business agenda. So, too, have industry and government reports on the staggering sums of money laundered on a global basis. Less apparent, but equally important, are…

VIDEO: How To Determine The True Value of Data, with Rocky Martinez

The A-Team Group Data Management Summit is fast-approaching, and with a spotlight on how to improve operational efficiency and enhance revenue opportunities through data, identifying value is a key topic for 2020. We are delighted to welcome Rocky Martinez, Chief Technology Officer at SmartStream RDU, to give us a sneak peek into his keynote speech…

CJC Deploys Push’s Diffusion to Stream Real-Time Market Data

Push Technology, a provider of real-time intelligent data streaming and messaging solutions, has announced that CJC, an independent market data technology consulting and services firm, has chosen Diffusion, Push Technology’s Real-Time API Management platform, to help them address customer cloud market data challenges. By deploying Diffusion as part of its Cloud Tools, CJC is now…