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Rimes Buy-Side Survey Shows Room for Improvement in Data Quality and Governance
Data quality and data governance are the top data management priorities cited by buy-side firms in Rimes’ 2015 Buy-Side Survey. The survey respondents, particularly asset managers, also note that a lack of support for data governance and the limitations of existing operating models are hindering business agility and holding back strategy changes. Now in it…
Thomson Reuters Adds Price Challenge Tool to DataScope Select
Thomson Reuters has added a price challenge tool for fixed income professionals to its DataScope Select data delivery platform. The tool, AskTRPS, is designed to make the price challenge process faster, smoother, more transparent and easier to report for auditory and regulatory purposes. AskTRPS enhances the Thomson Reuters Pricing Service (TRPS) by allowing DataScope Select…
New York Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Data Governance
The importance of data governance in financial services firms has never been greater as regulators scrutinise not only data but also its quality and business executives begin to understand data as a valuable asset. Reflecting the growing importance of data governance, A-Team Group addressed the problems it poses and the opportunities it presents at its…
Swift Eases Payments Data Consumption With SwiftRef APIs
Swift has added 12 application programming interfaces (APIs) to its SwiftRef reference data utility with a view to helping financial institutions and corporates automate payment processes by identifying and validating payments reference data in real time using information in SwiftRef. The APIs have been piloted for 18 months and are now market ready. They cover…
New York Data Management Summit: Setting the scene for 2015
A-Team Group kicked off last week’s Data Management Summit in New York City with a review of the company’s Regulatory Data Index by A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney and a keynote on the challenges of data management by John Fleming, head of enterprise data governance at BNY Mellon. The A-Team Regulatory Data Index is…
Solvency II Data Management Handbook
Want to get a handle on Solvency II and what it means for data management? Need to make sure you have all the bases covered for the looming January 2016 deadline? Our Solvency II Data Management Handbook is now available for free download to help you. This Handbook is the ultimate guide to all things…
CounterpartyLink Takes Top-Down View of Entity Hierarchies with CPL Hierarchy Profile
CounterpartyLink has reversed the process of building legal entity data hierarchies from the bottom up to deliver CPL Hierarchy Profile, a product designed to provide a top-down, single view of a legal entity including its entire group structure and links between entities in the structure. The company has been researching and validating entity data from…
Opinion: What Every Global Bank Should Know About Emerging KYC Solutions
Banks must navigate the maze of regulations or face costly fines. Lee Forsyth, Global Lead KYC Consultant at Thomson Reuters, explains there’s a way through with new solutions. No doubt you have noticed our industry is swimming in acronyms: AML, FATCA, UBO, FATF, KYC. This jumbled alphabet mash-up is the perfect symbol of the complex…
Opinion: Chief Data Officers – The Case for the Defence
A large number of financial institutions (FIs) have appointed chief data officers (CDOs) over the past couple of years. I know a few of them and while they come from a wide variety of backgrounds—some technical, some business, some ‘data geek’—they share a common belief that an organization’s data is one of its most important…
Data Management Summit: Finding Solutions to the Data Management Problems of Client Onboarding and KYC
Increasing enforcement of Know Your Client (KYC) regulations and large fines for non-compliance are driving banks to review client onboarding processes and make changes that will not only help them meet regulatory requirements, but also improve the client experience, increase efficiency and reduce time to revenue. The data management challenges of client onboarding and KYC,…