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Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: Back and Bigger Than Ever
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team towers as we put the finishing touches to the agenda for our Data Management Summit conference in London on October 1. And of course, right behind it is our planned summit in New York on November 3, of which more later in a future edition of this missive. We…
Talking Data Management with Andrew Delaney: A Salesman to the Core
Anyone who’s ever met Rob Flatley will attest to the fact that he was born to sell CoreOne Technologies, and probably to Markit. And so it transpires that Markit has bought yet again in the enterprise data space, this time parting company with $200 million for CoreOne and its One-suffixed affiliates in the Symphony Group,…
Vendor Profile: Advent Software
Established in 1983, Advent Software is one of the old guard of investment management solution providers, but it has kept pace with the market and is expected to develop further following its acquisition by SS&C Technologies, which completed in July 2015. Together, the companies are creating a strategic plan for growth including extended cloud-based services,…
Opinion: ECB AnaCredit Project Will Subject Reference Data to a New Level of Scrutiny
By David Attenborough, Business Development Manager EMEA, AxiomSL The European Central Bank (ECB) is increasing its focus on credit risk. As part of the Analytical Credit Dataset (AnaCredit) project, it plans to create a centralised register of granular data about the credit granted by financial institutions in Europe to the non-financial sector. The regulator is…
Dutch Pension Fund Service Provider PGGM Centralises Data with SimCorp Data Warehouse
PGGM Vermogensbeheer, the second largest pension fund service provider in the Netherlands managing close to €200 billion worth of pension assets and operating as a cooperative with 686,000 members, has selected Simcorp’s data warehouse to centralise data for reporting and analytics. The co-operative first worked with SimCorp in 2006, when it implemented SimCorp Dimension for…
Silverfinch Sets Up Wiki to Support Information Sharing on Solvency II Data Model
Silverfinch, a fund data utility designed to support asset managers and insurance firms in meeting the look-through requirements of Solvency II, has set up a Wiki page dedicated to helping industry participants resolve issues around the regulation before it takes effect in January 2016. The company has loaded the Solvency II tripartite data exchange template,…
DeltaOne and Horizon Software Partner to Provide an Integrated Solution for ETF Quoting and Hedging
By Zoe Schiff DeltaOne Solutions and Horizon Software have partnered to deliver an integrated solution that provides a single place to analyse and implement index and exchange traded funds (ETF) trades, in turn allowing market makers and traders to quote and hedge ETF trades with greater accuracy. The partnership brings together DeltaOne’s index and ETF…
Joining up your regulatory response: BCBS 239 attestation and the new Senior Manager Regime (SMR)
By Dennis Slattery, CEO, EDMworks The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is pushing forward with a strategy requiring senior managers to sign written statements or “attestations” in which they personally confirm their firm’s compliance with particular regulatory requirements. But it’s not just the FCA as global regulators are pursuing similar agendas. BCBS 239 being a case…
A-Team Webinar Discusses the Challenges and Opportunities of Risk Data Management
Risk data management has become a focus for many financial institutions, not only as a means to comply with incoming regulations, but also as the basis of business benefits ranging from reacting quickly to deteriorating situations to optimising capital requirements and cutting operational costs. A recent A-Team Group webinar discussed the growing importance of risk…
Opinion: Why the Client On-Boarding Conundrum Will Fuel Master Data Management (MDM) in Capital Markets
Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia for GoldenSource, explains how MDM can provide answers to the client on-boarding challenge facing financial institutions. Taking one step forward and two steps back – that’s what it must feel like for financial institutions at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution…