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A-Team Webinar Details the Data Management Implications of Solvency II
Solvency II presents major data management challenges for insurance firms, asset managers, their custodians and fund administrators, but compliance can provide opportunities to optimise portfolios, reduce capital holdings and build data architectures that can satisfy not only Solvency II, but also other incoming regulations. The data management implications of Solvency II were discussed recently during…
Silverfinch Allies with Fundsquare to Promote Adoption of Solvency II Look-Through Solution
Silverfinch, a business within the MoneyMate Group, has tied up with Fundsquare to push its Solvency II look-through data utility further into the European market. Fundsquare, a data utility set up last year by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to support cross-border distribution of investment funds, has a larger European footprint than Silverfinch and will make…
SunGard Details Cost and Compliance Issues of BCBS 239
The Basel Committee regulation BCBS 239 could cost the financial services industry $1.5 billion to $2 billion a year as firms remodel their IT architectures to meet the demands of the regulation’s 11 principles – but while the cost of compliance is high, the regulation is a game changer and could improve firms’ profitability. The…
AIM Software Survey Outlines Pain Points and Planned Investments in Reference Data Management
A shortfall in budgets and an excess of regulations are financial institutions’ biggest reference data management challenges and they are not likely to ease with any speed as firms tackle ongoing needs to increase efficiency, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and improve data governance and risk management. AIM Software’s ninth global reference data management survey,…
Markit | Genpact KYC Services Builds Out Offer and Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec Jon May as CEO
Markit | Genpact KYC Services has marked six months of operation with the appointment of former Goldman Sachs executive Jon May as CEO, the registration of more than 600 buy-side firms and corporations with its Know Your Customer (KYC) service, and the development of workflows that allow large asset managers operating thousands of funds to…
London Data Management Summit: Getting to Grips with Entity Data
Entity data management has moved up the agenda over the past year, driven by regulatory requirements, the establishment of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and, in some cases, a desire to centralise and provide enterprise-wide access to entity data. A-Team Group’s London Data Management Summit discussed the progress of entity data management, as well as…
Interactive Data Seeks to Expand Enterprise Footprint with Latest APEX Release
Interactive data has rolled out the latest release of its APEX reference data service off the back of its significant investment in its new technology infrastructure called OMEGA. The new service brings together a wider range of reference data with faster intraday updates, and offering more delivery methods including the planned XML-based service, and on-demand…
OTCFin Builds Out Managed Services and Regulatory Solutions
OTCFin, a provider of risk and portfolio data management solutions, is building out its managed services offering and delivering regulatory compliance solutions based on its expertise in analytics, risk and performance data generation, integration and aggregation. The company’s first compliance engine is designed to meet the requirements of Solvency II and can be provided as…
A-Team Webinar Debates the Data Management Challenges of Pricing and Valuations
Portfolio pricing and instrument valuations are under the spotlight as an increasing number of regulations require pricing and valuations data, the need for data quality and accuracy tops the agenda, and transparency of pricing methodologies becomes central to price challenges. These issues and more were discussed this week during an A-Team Group webinar moderated by…
Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of BCBS 239
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation BCBS 239 presents a significant data management challenge for banks, but it also offers opportunities for those that reach compliance. Moderating a panel discussion on risk data aggregation under BCBS 239 at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in London, Dennis Slattery, CEO of EDMWorks, set the scene noting…