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Market Surveillance Requires Systems that are Lean, Fast and Flexible
In a highly regulated trading market that is growing in complexity, yet must prove transparency, market surveillance is a significant challenge – but it can be addressed using technologies that span systems and data management, and deliver real-time alerts of potential abuse in the market. The pressing issues of surveillance and how best to tackle…
IBM Combines Algo Risk Service with Managed Data to Deliver Cloud Risk Analytics
IBM has combined its Algo Risk Service, a cloud-based risk offering acquired with Algorithmics in 2011, with cloud managed data services to deliver IBM Algo Risk Service on Cloud, a risk analytics solution that transforms upstream and downstream data to make it available for portfolio and enterprise risk modelling. The service is offered as a…
Recorded Webinar: The Data Challenge in Market Surveillance
This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Since the start of the financial crisis, market surveillance has been a high priority issue across capital markets. Buy-side and sell-side firms have stepped up their game, and so, too, have regulators. The need for accurate, real-time surveillance will continue to escalate as market…
Oddo Asset Management Selects CounterpartyLink for Entity Data
Oddo Asset Management has selected CounterpartyLink to supply validated legal entity data and links to pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that will be used to support regulatory requirements such as Know Your Customer (KYC). The French asset manager has online access to CounterpartyLink’s central entity database, which includes content defined by and used by clients. Tanguy…
Global Legal Entity Identifier System is Moved Another Step Closer to Completion
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system has taken another significant step forward with the endorsement of three pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the exclusion of 3,000 pre-LEI CFTC Interim Compliance Identifier (CICI) codes from the system. It is also finalising the appointment of a board directors for the…
DMS Review: Regulation, Data Complexity Seen as Key Drivers in Coming 18 Months
Regulation will be the main challenge for data managers over the next two years, but it won’t be the only challenge as data complexity and volumes increase, business users demand better data, and unstructured data becomes part of the big picture. Still more, these challenges must be tackled in an environment of cost constraint. That…
DMS Review: LEIs and the Focus on Entity Data
The emerging global legal entity identifier (LEI) remains far from the tipping point of acceptance across global capital markets and for some it appears as a precursor to a vast mapping exercise. But the standard is gaining ground and will form an integral element of the entity data that’s increasingly needed by companies and required…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Towards Analytics
Excitement is mounting here at A-Team Towers in anticipation of tomorrow’s Data Management Summit at the America Square conference centre in London. If you haven’t registered already, you can here. But you’d better hurry up. As readers know, I’ve been discussing the content and approach of this DMS event for quite some time, so I’ll…
DTCC Plans Roll Out of Global Client Reference Data Service
DTCC’s joint development of a client entity reference data utility with a number of global banks is expected to yield first results early next year, with an initial release of a client reference data service to be followed by further releases through the year. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a…
Interactive Data Automates Price Review Process with Vantage Price Validation Workflow
Interactive Data has added a price validation workflow to its Vantage web application for evaluated pricing transparency. The Vantage Price Validation Workflow module automates pricing exception handling and validation processes, cutting out typically manual processes and reducing operational costs. The price validation workflow is designed to provide a central hub for client validation activities and…