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Recorded Webinar: Using metrics to measure data quality
Measuring data quality is on the data management agenda at many financial firms as they seek to reduce operational costs, meet regulatory requirements and identify new product potential. The webinar will consider how metrics can be implemented to provide meaningful measures of data quality that can be used across the firm, solutions for data quality…
Join next week’s Data Management Summit for the Low-Down on Data Governance
Data governance, lineage and quality are in the spotlight at next week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City, with discussion expected to focus on progress, regulatory impact, strategic approaches and the potential benefits of a strong data governance framework beyond regulatory compliance. Michael Vapenik, enterprise data governance officer at American Express, will…
Project Sentinel Makes Headway on MiFID II Compliance
Project Sentinel, a consortium of banks working to mutualise the cost of implementing Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) in the OTC front office, will pass a significant milestone on Monday 3 April when Adaptive, a software firm selected by Sentinel as a technology provider, will deliver the backbone of the Sentinel solution…
Hundreds of Data Practitioners Join A-Team Data Management Summit
Last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit was a cracking event that discussed everything from creating value from data to navigating the changing regulatory landscape, improving data governance and quality, client onboarding, big data, data visualisation and more. Markets in Financial Instruments II (MiFID II) was also on the agenda, with panel sessions reviewing the…
Recorded Webinar: How agile data management can power business transformation
An asset manager’s ability to successfully execute on business transformation plans can make the difference between thriving and barely surviving in today’s competitive, digitally connected and regulatory-constrained environment. The more progressive buy-side firms are embarking on business transformation programmes that range from expansion across asset classes or geographies, introduction of new products, digital transformation to…
How Agile Data Management Can Power Business Transformation
Asset managers challenged by increasing regulatory costs and decreasing fees are embarking on business transformation programmes designed to provide more innovative ways to service clients and, in turn, help managers regain competitive edge in a difficult economic environment. Transformation programmes can range from an expansion of asset classes covered, to the introduction of new products…
Recorded Webinar: Driving business value from the LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has become a viable standard to help financial institutions identify business entities that are party to financial transactions and fulfil regulatory obligations for entity data. Linked to third-party, corporate hierarchy and beneficial ownership data, the potential of the LEI extends to meet not only regulatory requirements, but also the need…
MiFID II and PRIIPs: The Double Act
By: Ronan Brennan, chief technology officer, Silverfinch As at 1st January 2018, the financial services industry will be served a double whammy of regulation – Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). While there are key differences between these two regulations, the common characteristics are worth…
ESMA States its Case on Distributed Ledger Technology
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has stepped into industry discussion on the pros and cons of distributed ledger – or blockchain – technology (DLT) and concluded that regulatory action is premature at this stage, but may not be in the longer term. The authority issued a report this week, The Distributed Ledger Technology…
Thomson Reuters Builds Out Regulatory Change Management Offer
Thomson Reuters’ release of Regulatory Change Management is designed to help financial institutions harmonise their approach to regulatory change and compliance, mitigate risk and reduce administrative costs. The introduction of RCM follows Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of UK-based regulatory technology provider Empowered Systems in March 2016. RCM is offered on Thomson Reuters’ Connected Risk platform and…