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Last Minute Preparations for SFTR: Are You Ready Yet?
The clock is ticking, and the initial SFTR deadline is barely a month away – but with delays, regulatory opacity and widespread industry concerns around the data challenges posed by such a substantial change, is an April implementation even achievable? Tactical approaches to compliance won’t be good enough. A strategic plan of attack is necessary…
VIDEO: Delivering Value Through Data with Edosa Odaro
Over the past few years, there seems to have been a noticeable change of guard – across industries – with some established organisations struggling to stay above water, whilst some new challenger organisations are conversely thriving. In this video snippet Edosa Odaro, Former Head of Data Services for AXA and Keynote Speaker at the upcoming…
Hierarchies – Approach with Care
By Colin Gibson, Architecture & Data Management Consultant at Katano Limited. What is the item you find hardest to locate in a supermarket? You know where to find it in your local store, but what confounds you when you try to find it in a different chain? What about Bovril Yeast Extract (other yeast extract…
Collibra Debuts Data Lineage Solution
Collibra has revealed its latest solution, a data lineage tool that enables organizations to understand where data comes from and how it flows and transforms across the enterprise. The launch marks the first integration since the firm acquired automated technical lineage provider SQLdep back in July 2019. Targeting large enterprises, the solution offers native lineage…
Decision-Making, Not Compliance, Drives Data Governance Programs
Data governance drivers have shifted, with better decision-making now a priority when it comes to data governance decisions – but organizations are still grappling with data governance challenges and still depend largely on manual approaches for data lineage, data cataloguing and data mapping. So finds data modelling specialist erwin in its latest report on the…
A Holistic View of Risk Across the Enterprise: How Data Linkages Help
Gaining a comprehensive view of their risk exposures has long been a challenge for financial institutions. Standard measures have been embraced to measure and manage market risk, and the emergence of a standard legal entity identifier in the form of the LEI has gone some way toward addressing the issues of counterparty and credit risk…
JP Morgan Invests in Fund Administration Specialist Arcesium
New York-based investment management technology and post-trade services provider Arcesium has won strategic funding from JP Morgan. Arcesium was originally launched by investment and technology giant D E Shaw Group in 2015 on a platform developed for its own post-trade activities, with backing from Blackstone, which became one of its first clients. Its Securities Services…
Are We Nearly There Yet? Gearing Up for DMS London 2020
With less than two months to go until the A-Team Group Data Management Summit 2020 in London, anticipation is mounting and preparations are finalising for what looks to be our biggest and best event yet. Join us as we take a sneak peek at the hot topics, key trends, big names and new innovations that…
FactSet Adds Proprietary Data to Snowflake Cloud Built SQL Data Warehouse
FactSet’s deployment of its proprietary datasets on the Snowflake cloud data platform is designed to provide investment professionals with immediate and scalable access to content in a cloud-built SQL data warehouse. By offering its data through Snowflake, FactSet expects to reduce the time and effort it takes for clients to integrate and use new datasets….
Data Visualisation – the Challenges and Opportunities
Data visualisation is a highly desirable tool for many participants in capital markets. It has the potential to aid decision making and add value, signpost new products and business opportunities, and provide the insight necessary to mitigate risk. It also presents challenges, particularly around data quality and legacy technology, although developments over the past couple…