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GBST Global Broker Services Launches Syn~2

GBST, the global financial services technology provider, announces the launch of Syn~2, the new suite of products which provide multi-asset, multi-market settlement solutions to capital markets.  The Syn~2 offering provides enhanced usability to make it easier for management to control the trading process and monitor progress on an ongoing basis across markets. The product range,…

ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software Launches Data Management Solution

ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced the launch of Eze Data Management, a highly extensible, multi-asset class data repository that provides the tools for data enrichment, maintenance of “golden copy” reference data, as well as aggregation, tracking and reporting on performance and risk data. The new product seamlessly integrates with ConvergEx’s award-winning Eze…

AWD Connects Email Capture and BPM

With AWD, the industry-leading business process management (BPM) solution from DST Technologies, companies can now automatically capture incoming email and initiate processing without custom code. Unlike alternative BPM solutions, AWD delivers out-of-the-box integration for inbound email. AWD can identify email by subject, parse data from within the message, determine the work required, prioritise and route…

Reval’s Okochi and Trozzo Highlight Valuations and Data Impacts of US Swaps Market Reforms

It seems everyone’s talking about the data impacts of the Dodd Frank reforms at the moment. Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) hosted a public roundtable on the subject of the new recordkeeping requirements and related standards efforts, and derivatives risk and valuations solution provider Reval also hosted its own webinar on the…

Talend Enables Unified Integration in the Cloud

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced Talend Cloud, its Cloud-enabled Integration Platform and the first comprehensive unified integration platform for the cloud and hybrid IT environments. An extension of the recently announced Unified Integration Platform, Talend Cloud offers elasticity, ubiquity, extensibility, security and reliability to those organisations looking to ensure the integrity…

US Regulatory Agencies Publish Op Risk Guidance Highlighting Importance of Data Inputs, Governance and Validation

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), along with the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), have published their interagency guidance for operational risk as part of the US adoption of the advanced measurement approach (AMA) for risk-based…

Commerzbank’s Natter Highlights Progress of its Data Management Project with Asset Control

Following its merger with Dresdner Bank in 2008, Commerzbank opted to integrate its risk management processes and instead of building an in-house solution for the data underlying those processes, it selected Asset Control’s AC Plus platform for the job. Speaking at last month’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in…

Thomson Reuters Adds Ex-Wolters Kluwer Exec Curtis to its Ranks

The revolving door at data giant Thomson Reuters continues to spin unabated (see commentary on the recent slew of people moves) with the addition of ex-Wolters Kluwer MD Dean Curtis to its ranks. Curtis, who was with the regulatory solutions specialist for nearly four years and was likely a casualty of the recent FRSGlobal acquisition,…

Virginie’s Blog – Swift’s Future Focus?

Swift has a serious decision to make this year about its potential future in the securities reference data space, beyond legal entity identification and standing settlement instructions (SSI) in the FX and money markets that is… Last month, Swift was selected by ISO as the successful candidate to act as the registration authority for its…

Opinion: Proven Main Street Solution Proposed for Global Financial Identification

By Allan Grody and Bob Carpenter There is a business model in existence today that has been around for nearly four decades and that has solved the unique identification problem in the global commercial trade supply chain. Now in partnership with our respective firms, we are proposing to share this system with regulators and the…