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Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator Increases Transparency of Evaluated Pricing

Thomson Reuters has partnered with data analytics specialist Trovo to produce Thomson Reuters Valuation Navigator, a software solution that automates reference data and pricing workflows, and allows users to search and analyse data from a wide range of data sources, compare multiple pricing options and optimise valuation and risk activities. The solution is data vendor…

Getting to Grips with Risk Data: The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book

By Zoe Schiff If you thought BCBS 239 would be a challenge, you should take a look at the proposals currently being formulated as part of the Basel group’s Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). Happily, this will be part of what we’ll be talking about next Tuesday, when A-Team hosts a webinar on…

A Rigorous Approach to Regulatory Reporting

The current battery of regulations is putting the onus on financial firms to review their data collection, integration and management systems that underlie their regulatory report processes today. For many firms – whether they are asset owners, fund managers, investment banks or custodians – the new emphasis on transparency is exposing gaps in their ability…

Opinion: Why the Client Onboarding Conundrum will Fuel Master Data Management in Capital Markets

By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director of EMEA and Asia, GoldenSource Taking one step forward and two steps back is what financial institutions must feel they are doing at the moment. You could be forgiven for thinking that finding a solution to manage all reference, counterparty, client and customer data in one place ticks all the…

Opinion: Data Management – Keeping the Financial Market Airborne

By Martijn Groot, VP Product Strategy, Asset Control In this new era of stress testing, how many financial institutions risk being grounded by the financial equivalent of air traffic control for failing to meet the new, challenging risk requirements? The production of risk and stress data is no longer a one off risk management exercise…

Fonetic Fuses Trade and Communications Data to Deliver Automated Trade Reconstruction

Fonetic has fused information on completed trades with all the voice and text communications associated with the trades to deliver a linguistics-based automated trade reconstruction solution. Called ATR integra, the solution is powered by a proprietary algorithm and can replace time-consuming manual reconstruction processes with automated collection, analysis and matching of trade and communications information….

Achmea Combines Eagle Data Management with BNY Mellon Services to support Solvency II Compliance

Achmea, the largest insurance company in the Netherlands, is up and running with a Solvency II compliance solution that combines cloud-based enterprise data management from Eagle Investment Systems with data stewardship and administration services from its parent BNY Mellon. The company has been a BNY Mellon client since 2008, with BNY Mellon acting as its…

Global LEI Foundation and Regulatory Oversight Committee Address Data Quality and Hierarchy issues of Global LEI System

The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) is making significant progress as the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF) makes operational improvements to the system and the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) prepares a consultation paper on how hierarchy data can be added to the business card data already attached to LEIs. On the operational front, the GLEIF…

Nice Actimize Integrates with Alacra to Deliver Automated Customer Due Diligence Suite

Nice Actimize has pulled together its customer due diligence anti-money laundering software and Alacra’s Compliance Enterprise customer onboarding data platform to deliver the Actimize Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Suite, an enterprise solution that automates onboarding and ongoing customer risk profiles. The Actimize CDD Suite allows banks to manage CDD operations centrally and support multiple Know…

DTCC Recommends Data Harmonisation Across Trade Repositories

DTCC has recommended that global trade repositories in the OTC derivatives market should harmonise 30 data fields that are critical to financial stability and systemic risk analysis. The company, which operates Global Trade Repository, the industry’s largest derivatives trade reporting service spanning nine jurisdictions, made its recommendations this week to the harmonisation working group overseen…