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Man Group Streamlines KYC Process with Thomson Reuters Managed Service
Man Group has selected Thomson Reuters’ KYC Managed Service to replace predominantly manual in-house customer due diligence processes. The managed service is expected to help the alternative investment manager streamline its Know Your Customer (KYC) process and improve the monitoring of client records on an ongoing basis. Man Group searched the market for a global…
New York Data Management Summit: Market Participants Argue the Case for LEI Hierarchy Data
Regulation, an entity-centric view of clients, and the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) are driving entity data management across capital markets, but the picture is not complete with market practitioners noting that the LEI needs hierarchy data to make it truly useful and a solution to the problem of monitoring systemic risk, for which it was…
New York Data Management Summit: Getting Ready for Basel Committee Regulation BCBS 239
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision regulation BCBS 239 is a game changer, requiring banks to review and sometimes renew their data management processes in order to strengthen risk data aggregation capabilities and push risk reporting towards near real time. The challenges of BCBS 239 were the subject of a discussion session at A-Team Group’s…
New York Data Management Summit: Data Governance for Improved Data Quality
Regulatory requirements and internal needs for improved data quality are pushing data governance up the agenda at many financial institutions. In response, data governance policies are being implemented and firms are considering tools and techniques that could support and sustain better data quality. Approaches to data governance were discussed at A-Team Group’s recent New York…
Recorded Webinar: How to Meet FATCA Requirements
A-Team Group recently held a webinar on the topic of How to Meet FATCA Requirements, discussing the data management challenges FATCA presents and suggests how firms can best meet the regulation’s requirements.
A-Team Webinar Considers the Practicalities of Implementing the LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has come a long way since it was introduced to financial markets by the Financial Stability Board back in June 2012, but it is far from becoming a primary entity identifier and needs further development to fulfill its initial purpose of providing a means to monitor systemic risk. The extent…
Opinion: How Many ‘R’s Are There in Financial Services Regulation?
By Alex Foster, Global Head of Strategy & Business Development – BT Financial Technology Services Throughout history, the letter ‘R’ has represented a succession of important codes of conduct. We have the famous ‘three ‘R’s of education’: reading, writing, and arithmetic, which can be traced back as early as 401 AD from Saint Augustine’s The…
AxiomSL Adds A Solution for Smart Cube Compliance to its Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL has stepped into the market with a solution for Austrian Smart Cube reporting, which comes into play next year. The solution is built on the same platform as AxiomSL’s other regulatory reporting products, providing data consistency across reports and the reduced complexity and costs of a single platform approach. Smart Cube reporting, which is…
A-Team Webinar Details the Data Management Implications of Solvency II
Solvency II presents major data management challenges for insurance firms, asset managers, their custodians and fund administrators, but compliance can provide opportunities to optimise portfolios, reduce capital holdings and build data architectures that can satisfy not only Solvency II, but also other incoming regulations. The data management implications of Solvency II were discussed recently during…
Silverfinch Allies with Fundsquare to Promote Adoption of Solvency II Look-Through Solution
Silverfinch, a business within the MoneyMate Group, has tied up with Fundsquare to push its Solvency II look-through data utility further into the European market. Fundsquare, a data utility set up last year by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange to support cross-border distribution of investment funds, has a larger European footprint than Silverfinch and will make…