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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…
Fenergo Details Development Plans Funded by $75 Million Private Equity Investment
Fenergo is close to securing a $75 million investment from private equity firm Insight Venture Partners. The transaction is expected to close in the next few weeks and will give Fenergo the financial strength to work with the world’s largest banks as well as funds to invest in its client lifecycle management solutions, develop a…
Kiltearn Partners Implements Indata IPM Epic to Centralise Data Management
Edinburgh based investment firm Kiltearn Partners has implemented Indata’s iPM Epic platform to centralise data, deliver data management efficiencies and support business intelligence. The firm was founded in 2011 and has been using Indata’s Intelligent Portfolio Management (iPM) technology since 2013 to support front-to-back office needs including order management, compliance, portfolio modelling, accounting, performance and…
MoneyMate Rebrands Fund ProductMaster Platform as Accudelta and Extends Capabilities
MoneyMate Group has rebranded its Fund ProductMaster managed data service to Accudelta, creating a separate business line for the service that will sit alongside the group’s utility for secure data sharing, Silverfinch, and its market data vendor, Longboat Analytics. The rebrand coincides with improvements to the data distribution platform, including the addition of support for…
Recorded Webinar: Risk Data Analytics
How is data being managed and fed into analytics to improve risk management today? In this webinar we explore: During this session we will discover how; Incoming regulations, from BCBS 239 to the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book and Solvency II, are putting new emphasis on the importance of accurate, timely and consistent risk…