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Entity Data Management Handbook
Following on from the success of our Regulatory Data Handbook, A-Team Group is pleased to introduce its new Entity Data Management Handbook which is available for free download. This Handbook is the ultimate guide to all things entity data: Why Entity Data is important A full review of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) Where they came…
Data Management Summit: Arguing the Case for Shared Services
The A-Team Group Data Management Summit held in London this week opened with a review of the company’s Regulatory Data Index and a keynote presentation by Nick Murphy, director of consulting at IGATE, on the potential of shared services or utilities for reference data management. Regulatory Data Index The A-Team Regulatory Data Index sponsored by…
Opinion – BCBS 239 Compliance: Slip Slidin’ Away?
By Jennifer L. Costley, Ph.D., Principal, Ashokan Advisors “Slip slidin’ away Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The more you’re slip slidin’ away…” – Paul Simon A couple of weeks ago, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued their second annual progress report on the adoption of the Committee’s Principles for…
Alacra and Accuity Partner to Integrate Bankers Almanac with Alacra Compliance Enterprise
Accuity and Alacra have partnered to integrate data from Accuity’s Bankers Almanac with the Alacra Compliance Enterprise (ACE) workflow application. The partnership includes integration of Bankers Almanac’s Due Diligence Data File with ACE and is expected to increase the speed and efficiency of client onboarding. The partnership has been made in response to client requests…
Opinion – Tougher Stress Tests Bring Banks to an Impasse: Revolutionise or Fail
By Peter Ku, Senior Director of Global Financial Services, Informatica Just before Christmas, the results of the first stress testing exercise for the UK banking system were revealed. The test scenarios modelled a financial doomsday, in which the housing market crashes, unemployment spikes and inflation rises. The aim of the exercise was to determine which…
AxiomSL Adds A Solution for Smart Cube Compliance to its Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL has stepped into the market with a solution for Austrian Smart Cube reporting, which comes into play next year. The solution is built on the same platform as AxiomSL’s other regulatory reporting products, providing data consistency across reports and the reduced complexity and costs of a single platform approach. Smart Cube reporting, which is…
New York Data Management Summit: Mapping Developments in Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture for data management is moving on, leaving behind traditional enterprise data warehouses and embracing the potential of semantic data models, decoupling systems, building on open source platforms, and deploying hybrid solutions. The limitations of existing architectures for data management and the possibilities of emerging ideas were discussed at the fall A-Team Group Data…
London Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Solvency II Compliance
Solvency II has been some time in the making, but as deadlines loom for interim requirements in 2015 and full implementation in January 2016, the data management challenges of the regulation must be tackled not only by firms in the insurance industry, which Solvency II seeks to regulate, but also by third-party administrators and asset…
Markit | Genpact KYC Services Builds Out Offer and Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec Jon May as CEO
Markit | Genpact KYC Services has marked six months of operation with the appointment of former Goldman Sachs executive Jon May as CEO, the registration of more than 600 buy-side firms and corporations with its Know Your Customer (KYC) service, and the development of workflows that allow large asset managers operating thousands of funds to…
Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of BCBS 239
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation BCBS 239 presents a significant data management challenge for banks, but it also offers opportunities for those that reach compliance. Moderating a panel discussion on risk data aggregation under BCBS 239 at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in London, Dennis Slattery, CEO of EDMWorks, set the scene noting…