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New York City Data Management Summit Discusses Data as a Business Asset and Introduces A-Team’s BCBS 239 Handbook

Data governance, risk data aggregation, regulatory challenge, utility models, data architecture, Know Your Customer (KYC), data as an asset and machine learning were just some of the data management topics discussed at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York City. The conference also hosted the introduction of A-Team’s BCBS 239 handbook, which…

DataArt Round Table Discusses the Implications of Innovation

Financial services firms need to innovate to meet changing client expectations, but will innovation prove transformational for large incumbent firms or will it support only evolutionary development? This question and others around business models, new technologies, fintech start-up and regtech were the subject of a recent round table discussion hosted by technology consultancy DataArt. Chris…

A-Team Publishes BCBS 239 Handbook

As the January 1, 2016 compliance deadline for BCBS 239 approaches, A-Team Group has published a BCBS 239 Handbook dedicated to the regulation and designed to help data management and data governance practitioners implement its 14 principles successfully. The regulation embodies the post-financial crisis need for effective and efficient risk data aggregation and reporting across…

AxiomSL Plans Software-As-A-Service Version of its Regulatory Reporting Platform

AxiomSL is planning to introduce a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its regulatory reporting and risk management platform next year with a view to supporting asset managers and hedge funds that do not have sufficient IT resources to deploy the platform in-house. The SaaS solution will offer these types of firms an additional option on access…

BCBS 239 Data Management Handbook

Our 2015/2016 edition of the BCBS 239 Data Management Handbook has arrived! Printed copies went like hotcakes at our Data Management Summit in New York but you can download your own copy here and get access to detailed information on the  principles and implications of BCBS 239 on Data Management. This Handbook provides an at-a-glance…

Smart Order Routers: Transparency Clashes with Broker Proprietary Model

How do you strike a balance between providing transparency into smart order routing so that buy-side firms can understand how their orders are routed and can meet their best execution obligations, whilst protecting the intellectual property of the sell side firms providing order routing services? That’s a question that traders, asset managers and smart order…

Smart Machines: A $10 Trillion Capacity Windfall or a $10 Trillion Jobs Deficit?

By Adam Devine, VP Product Marketing, WorkFusion Predictable, monotonous data work costs the United States, Canada and Europe over $10 trillion of human intelligence each year, and that number is growing. You know the kind of work: a data analyst sitting in front of two screens, one flashing an endless stream of unstructured content, the…

A Utility Approach for Operational Process Improvement

Data management is a high-cost, no-margin activity for financial institutions across the board. Business requirements and regulatory pressure demand more depth of processing and breadth of reporting than ever before. At the same time, high quality data sourcing, validation and enrichment are essential to achieving operational optimization. Yet most firms are reluctant to increase investment…

Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: It’s MiFID II Time!

Hot on the heels of our highly successful Trade Europe Now! white paper (sponsored by Interxion and available for free download here), yesterday we released our latest missive on MiFID II. Titled ‘MiFID II: Practical Considerations for Gainful Compliance’, the paper is sponsored by ORC Group, and like it says on the tin it offers…

European Insurers Struggle to Meet January 2016 Solvency II Compliance Deadline

As the January 1, 2016 deadline for Solvency II approaches, insurers across Europe are struggling to complete compliance programmes that have been held up by delays in one area causing knock-on effects in others and by slow regulatory approval of internal models for capital requirements that has left little time to work with asset managers…