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The Costanza Complex (Or, Is FinTech Facing a Double-Dip?)
Fans of TV’s Seinfeld will surely recall the episode in which Jerry’s friend George Costanza gets caught double-dipping his chip in the dip at a funeral reception. It’s this that immediately springs to mind when commentators suggest we are facing a double-dip recession. But of course, there would be nothing amusing about such an outcome….
GoldenSource RiskHub to Help Financial Firms Achieve a Holistic View of Market, Credit, Liquidity and Counterparty Risk
GoldenSource, a provider of data management solutions for risk mitigation, today announced RiskHub, a suite of products to help risk professionals implement highly automated, timely and cost effective risk management strategies. With firms pushed to increase transparency of their risk and data governance and meet more stringent regulatory requirements, GoldenSource RiskHub provides a flexible and…
SIX Telekurs and Expersoft Systems Announce Strategic Partnership
SIX Telekurs has signed a strategic partnership with Expersoft Systems, a global vendor of portfolio and wealth management platform solutions. The agreement allows the two companies to combine their cutting edge solutions, thereby offering small and medium sized independent providers of wealth management services for high net worth individuals (HNWI) and institutional clients a unique…
Cadis Solvency II Risk Platform Answer to Group-Wide Compliance
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced its Solvency II risk platform. The platform will provide insurers with the confidence of complete data governance lineage and the level of transparency, visibility and data quality being demanded by tough regulator scrutiny. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “The capital adequacy requirement of Solvency II is the…
DTCC and SWIFT Launch ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Messaging Pilot Program
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot program. The pilot program being run by DTCC will…
Reference Data Rather Than Alcohol?!
Yesterday’s panel session on a reference data utility was surprisingly well attended, given the fact it was last thing on the first day of the conference and drinks were being served outside on the exhibition floor. Testament to the importance of the subject in an environment where everybody is waiting for the regulator’s hammer to…
More Buy Side Firms Turning to Third Party Valuations Than Ever Before, Indicates A-Team Group Valuations Benchmarking Study
More and more buy side firms are turning from proprietary and broker-supplied pricing to third party valuations and this is set to rise even further, according to a recent A-Team Group benchmarking study. The majority, at 82%, of the asset management and securities services firm respondents indicated that they rely on third party external sources…
Kinetic Partners is Focusing on Adding New Modules to its Risk and Valuations Platform
Following her appointment to the London-based risk team of Kinetic Partners two months ago, Isabelle Tykoczinski has been focused on adding new modules to the vendor’s Risk and Valuation Services (RVS) platform. Due for launch in the first half of next year, the new modules focus on extending the platform’s services and reporting tools, such…
Data Management is Now Partnering with Risk and Compliance, Rather than Being a Poor Second Cousin, Says RBC’s Sutton
The increased attention being focused on data management by senior execs has resulted in the function being viewed as more of a partner to risk or compliance teams within financial institutions, according to Julia Sutton, global head of customer data and onboarding at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Speaking at the recent EDM Council and…
JWG Risk Research Recommends Firms Focus on Getting Workable Risk Datasets in Place
After two years of scrambling to assemble new regulatory reports, firms now have a brief window of opportunity to rethink the risk information capabilities they need to satisfy both customers and regulators. However, it does not appear that many are taking advantage of the chance to redesign their current risk architectures. ‘Getting risk information right’,…