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A-Team Webinar Discusses Next Generation Enterprise Data Management
Technology options including cloud solutions, managed services and data utilities can take enterprise data management (EDM) to the next level and deliver business benefits, but there are challenges along the way as firms contend with legacy systems, increasing regulation and the ongoing divide between business and IT. The challenges and opportunities of emerging EDM solutions…
Mizuho International Goes Live with Second Phase of GoldenSource EDM Project
Mizuho International has gone live with the second phase of a project based on GoldenSource enterprise data management (EDM) solutions. The London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Securities, part of the Mizuho Financial Group, implemented GoldenSource’s entity master application, Customers & Counterparties, in January and recently went live with the company’s security master…
Alacra Adds GIINs and Cross-References Them to Other Identifiers in its Alacra Authority File Plus
Alacra has added Global Intermediary Identifier Numbers (GIINs) to its Alacra Authority File Plus (AAF+) with a view to helping firms match the identifiers to other public and vendor proprietary identifiers. GIINs are assigned by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to foreign financial institutions that must comply with tax reporting requirements under the US Foreign…
Rimes Buy-Side Survey Shows Room for Improvement in Data Quality and Governance
Data quality and data governance are the top data management priorities cited by buy-side firms in Rimes’ 2015 Buy-Side Survey. The survey respondents, particularly asset managers, also note that a lack of support for data governance and the limitations of existing operating models are hindering business agility and holding back strategy changes. Now in it…
Thomson Reuters Adds Price Challenge Tool to DataScope Select
Thomson Reuters has added a price challenge tool for fixed income professionals to its DataScope Select data delivery platform. The tool, AskTRPS, is designed to make the price challenge process faster, smoother, more transparent and easier to report for auditory and regulatory purposes. AskTRPS enhances the Thomson Reuters Pricing Service (TRPS) by allowing DataScope Select…
Recorded Webinar: The Data Management Implications of BCBS 239
We plan to put the spotlight on this much overlooked but important regulation which has wide-ranging implications for risk data aggregation and reporting, data governance and data architecture. During this webinar we discuss: What is needed from a data management point of view to comply with BCBS 239 A view of progress across the industry…
New York Data Management Summit: The Challenges and Opportunities of Data Governance
The importance of data governance in financial services firms has never been greater as regulators scrutinise not only data but also its quality and business executives begin to understand data as a valuable asset. Reflecting the growing importance of data governance, A-Team Group addressed the problems it poses and the opportunities it presents at its…
Swift Eases Payments Data Consumption With SwiftRef APIs
Swift has added 12 application programming interfaces (APIs) to its SwiftRef reference data utility with a view to helping financial institutions and corporates automate payment processes by identifying and validating payments reference data in real time using information in SwiftRef. The APIs have been piloted for 18 months and are now market ready. They cover…
New York Data Management Summit: Setting the scene for 2015
A-Team Group kicked off last week’s Data Management Summit in New York City with a review of the company’s Regulatory Data Index by A-Team chief content officer Andrew Delaney and a keynote on the challenges of data management by John Fleming, head of enterprise data governance at BNY Mellon. The A-Team Regulatory Data Index is…
Solvency II Data Management Handbook
Want to get a handle on Solvency II and what it means for data management? Need to make sure you have all the bases covered for the looming January 2016 deadline? Our Solvency II Data Management Handbook is now available for free download to help you. This Handbook is the ultimate guide to all things…