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Are Your Data Management Ops Future Proofed for Regulations?

Short term approaches to each new regulation that comes along are relatively easy to fund. But for true success, a long-term approach should be considered now that will help future proof your organisation against further regulatory change. A-Team Group surveyed 15 Tier 1 buy- and sell-side institutions about their views on a utility – rather than…

Putting the LEI into Practice

Hundreds of thousands of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) have been issued by pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) in the Global LEI System (GLEIS), and the standard entity identifier has been mandated for use by regulators in both the US and Europe. As more pre-LEIs are issued ahead of the establishment of the global systems’ Central Operating…

Markit Develops Managed Services With CTI Acquisition

Markit’s agreement to acquire tax compliance and reporting services specialist Compliance Technologies International (CTI) will add a tax component to the company’s managed regulatory reporting services that already include the Counterparty Manager platform and the recently introduced Markit | Genpact Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Services. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed and the transaction…

Opinion: Uniting Entity Data – the Missed Opportunity

By Neill Vanlint, Managing Director, EMEA & Asia, Goldensource The industry’s drive to understand and reduce systemic risk has created fresh challenges around instrument and entity data that put technology under a whole new light. However, in a post-2008 crisis landscape dominated by regulatory reform, compliance is only part of the issue. If firms can…

Markit and Genpact Release KYC Service

Markit’s tie-up with business process specialist Genpact, which was made back in September 2013, has come to fruition in a Know Your Customer (KYC) service designed in conjunction with Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. Called Markit | Genpact KYC Services, the companies’ KYC offering is based on Markit’s Counterparty Manager service and Genpact’s…

Data Management Summit: Regulation and Risk Require a New Approach

Regulation and risk are driving a new approach to data management across financial markets, but they are not the only drivers as firms seek cost reductions, operational efficiencies and a means of using data as a business asset. These issues and more were debated by a panel of experts at last week’s A-Team Group Data…

Have you figured out a single view of customer data yet?

Are you feeling the pressure from regulators to sort out your entity data but are frustrated knowing that the promised LEI solution is far from ready? What can you do in the meantime? Some financial institutions are meeting the regulatory requirements by establishing a single client view by cross-referencing data sources to help them achieve their entity data management…

Regulatory Data Handbook 2014

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook. We trust you’ll find this guide a useful addition to the resources at your disposal as you navigate the maze of emerging regulations that are making ever more strenuous reporting demands on financial institutions everywhere. In putting the Handbook together, our rationale has been…

Data Management Summit: Regulation and Cost Drive Adoption of Data Utilities

The potential of reference data utilities to cut data management costs and improve data quality was a hot topic at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York. Most speakers and delegates agreed that data utilities will become part of the capital markets landscape, but exactly how they will operate and how the…

Data Management Summit: Managing Entity Data with the Global LEI

The global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system is growing in terms of the number of operational pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) within the system and the number of LEIs they have issued, but it remains incomplete and continues to pose data management problems without a Central Operating Unit (COU). The status of the global LEI system…