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Recorded Webinar: How to establish data quality and data governance for analytics
Data quality has been a perennial problem for financial institutions for many years, but this needs to change as firms become increasingly reliant on accurate analytics to deliver business opportunity and competitive advantage. New approaches to data quality can help firms up their game and significantly improve their analytics capability. Adding the processes, controls and…
Recorded Webinar: Maximising success when migrating big data and analytics to cloud
Migrating big data and analytics workflows to the cloud promises significant cost savings through efficient use of infrastructure resources and software that scales dynamically based on data volume, query load, or both. These are valuable gains for investment banks, but they can only be fully realised by taking a new approach to architecture and software…
Reformis Adds Matrix IDM and NeoXam to Vendor Partner Programme
Reformis, a buy-side business transformation consultancy, continues to build out its vendor partnership programme with the addition of Matrix IDM’s cloud native data management software, and NeoXam’s Impress reporting solution. These join the company’s list of existing partners and products including IHS Markit’s EDM software, Snowflake’s cloud data platform, and Compliance Solution Strategies’ Accudelta product….
CNP Assurances Group Selects NeoXam to Streamline Data Management
CNP Assurances Group has selected NeoXam’s DataHub to house all its pricing and reference data on a single platform. The group wanted a centralised platform to shorten the time needed for data management processes that were previously handled manually. By providing increased visibility into data underpinning all investible assets, DataHub supports the group’s UChange programme,…
Recorded Webinar: The UK’s New Prudential Regime for Investment Firms – Time to Prepare!
With the implementation of the new Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR), the FCA is aiming to streamline and simplify the prudential requirements for solo-regulated investment firms in the UK. Under the new regime, all MiFID authorized, Collective Portfolio Management Investment Firms (i.e. UK UCITS ManCo and Alternative Investment Fund Management Firms permitted to undertake Additional Activities)…
Harbr Data Exchange Democratises Internal Data, Provides Collaboration for Data Product Creation
Harbr is taking a new approach to data value with an enterprise data exchange that can be used to democratise internal data, enrich a data ecosystem by adding external data, or monetise data by building a marketplace that provides insight into numerous data products. The London-based company was founded in 2017 to address the problem…
Brian Sentance Named Head of EMEA at Data Quality Management Platform Provider Datasynthesis
Brian Sentance, former CEO of Xenomorph, is back in the data management business as head of EMEA for Datasynthesis, provider of a cloud-native data quality management platform that synchronises data governance, integration and quality to transform data policy into data operations. Sentance joins the New-York based leadership team of Datasynthesis, CEO Christian Robertson, and chief…
RIMES Offers Insight into Benchmarks and Indexes with Index Identifier Service
RIMES has responded to customer requests for a simplified process to gain insight into benchmarks and indexes with RIMES Technologies Index Identifier (RTID). The service is designed to address issues around identifying and tracking the huge variety of identifiers used by index providers and front-office information platforms such as Bloomberg Tickers and Reuters RICs. RTID…
Meeting ESG Demand – How this New Kind of Data Delivers Competitive Edge
By Stef Nielen, Strategic Business Development, Alveo. Buy-side financial firms are increasingly looking to tap into alternative data sets, including rapidly emerging environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to give them a competitive edge. There are several drivers behind this. First, regulation, and the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) in particular, forces funds to…
Behind the Scenes at Solidatus Following £14 Million Series A Funding
Having reported on Solidatus’ £14 million Series A funding last week, this week we go behind the scenes to talk to the company’s founders Philip Dutton and Philip Miller about their business philosophy, ambitions for Solidatus, and the challenges and opportunities of working with investors and growing the company through lockdown. After careers in financial…