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Recorded Webinar: Client and Entity Data for Client Onboarding
With enticing figures such as annual savings of $5-$20 million per firm being widely quoted, should we be looking at a collaborative approach to harmonising data management for entity and client data for client onboarding and KYC processes? How would it work, what are the obstacles and how can we address them, and how will…
Avox Sets Out Development Plans for 2016
Avox has set out its development plans for 2016, including the introduction of a sanctions screening service, support for MiFID II compliance and enhancements to its managed and Know Your Customer (KYC) services. The company, a specialist in entity data services, will also work with its parent DTCC and other subsidiaries, such as Clarient and…
MiFID II: Rewriting the Code
Demanding regulation is transforming order and execution management systems into detail-driven trading engines The capacity of order management systems (OMSs) to support buy-side desks was challenged at the Barcelona-based Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2015 on 14 October by John Greenan, a front office systems specialist, who suggested that some providers “had not kept pace” with…
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…