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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…

Data Management Summit Keynote: Enterprise Data Governance

Data governance is less about data and more about trust, trust between people and trusted information that can open up business opportunities for financial services firms and deliver benefits to customers and shareholders. Presenting a keynote at the A-Team Group Data Management Summit in London, Lorraine Waters, deputy group chief data officer at HSBC, outlined…

Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Rewards of KYC Compliance

Financial firms are investing significant sums to meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements, but there are rewards beyond regulatory compliance for those that take a centralised approach to collecting and managing client data and documentation. Addressing the data management challenges of KYC and client on-boarding at A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit in London, A-Team chief…

Standard Bank South Africa Implements Eagle Solutions

Standard Bank South Africa is implementing Eagle Investment Systems’ accounting and enterprise data management solutions across its private client business. The solutions will be hosted on Eagle’s Access private cloud and will support the bank as it centralises operations and moves towards a single record of data. The bank is replacing legacy systems with the…

Pictet Integrates Wolters Kluwer Risk and Reporting Solutions to Create Single Platform

Pictet Group is extending its use of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services solutions with the addition of the supplier’s financial risk management software to existing regulatory reporting capabilities. The Geneva-based asset manager has started to integrate the solutions with a view to creating a single platform and standardised data management processes across its risk and finance…

Data Management Summit: New Models for Data Management

Managed services and data utilities hold the promise of reduced data management costs, streamlined operations and support for regulatory compliance, but they also raise questions about flexibility, legacy systems and the ongoing costs of internal data management. These issues, and more, were debated during a panel session moderated by Chris Bannocks, founder of Grasp Associates,…

Winners of the Data Management Summit Awards 2014 Revealed…

Some happy winners were on hand to collect their awards at our Data Management Summit in London yesterday in recognition of their hard work delivering robust data and data management solutions for the financial technology industry. The second annual awards were presented by our Chief Content Officer Andrew Delaney. Congratulations go to AIM Software, Alacra,…

CounterpartyLink Upgrades CPL Compliance Solution

CounterpartyLink has upgraded its CPL Compliance entity data solution with the addition of ultimate beneficial ownership information, more detail on Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and the inclusion of Global Intermediary Identification Numbers (GIINs). The upgraded solution is designed to provide all the counterparty data required for compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations and is…

Accuity Repositions Data to Deliver KYC Identifier File

Accuity has repositioned data from its Bankers Almanac payments solution and Know Your Customer (KYC) Due Diligence Data File to deliver a KYC Identifier File that allows Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and Global Intermediary Identification Numbers (GIINs) to be matched to banks’ counterparty records. The KYC Identifier File also provides access to BICS, internal Accuity…