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Thomson Reuters Details Growth of Due Diligence around Evaluated Pricing Providers
Thomson Reuters experienced a four-fold increase in due diligence meetings examining its role as an evaluated pricing provider in 2012, signalling growing pressure on financial firms to check the viability of their content providers and underlining extended expectations of transparency. Jayme Fagas, head of evaluated pricing, enterprise content, at Thomson Reuters and a speaker at…
Fenergo Enhances Client & Counterparty Data Management Solution to Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Fenergo, a provider of customer lifecycle management software, has extended the model of its Client & Counterparty Data Management solution to capture and manage additional reference data that is essential for compliance with regulations such as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca), Dodd-Frank, the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Markets in Financial Instruments…
Data Management Summit – the Challenges of Corporate Actions
Automating corporate actions and reducing risk associated with manual intervention is proving difficult to pin down as the financial services industry struggles with a lack of standardisation, a growing volume and complexity of events, and different regional interpretations of events. A panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit grappled with the problems…
Data Management Summit – Regulation is a Game Changer for Reference Data
Regulation has become a game-changer for many financial firms as regulators look beyond reports and demand access to detailed data that must be accurate and complete in a regime of zero regulatory tolerance. Introducing a panel discussion at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit entitled Enterprise Data Management Business and Regulatory Drivers, A-Team Group…
Data Management Summit – The First Wave of the LEI System
Peter Warms, head of product development for global data and symbology at Bloomberg Data Solutions tackled issues around legal entity identifiers (LEIs) at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit. He acknowledged the aim of a global LEI system to improve risk management and counterparty reporting, detailed industry challenges posed by the system and noted…
Data Management Summit – Paolo Mittiga Maps the Road Ahead
Paolo Mittiga, data management domain partner at Wipro Technologies, presented the opening keynote at this week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit (DMS) outlining a future of data management that will focus on the legal entity and real-time access to all data and be underpinned by technologies including semantic logic and dynamic ontology. Mittiga was welcomed…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: DMS Fever
It’s finally here…. Our Data Management Summit takes place in London next Tuesday, March 12. It’s taken a lot of begging, bribing and cajoling, but I think I can say that we’ve got the best possible line-up for the event. In short, for anyone in the reference / risk / enterprise and related technologies space,…
Avox Passes One Million Entity Milestone with Plans for Further Growth and Additional Services
Avox has posed a 25% year-on-year gain in the number of entities it has validated, bringing its total database of entities with validated reference data to over a million. The million-entity milestone comes against the backdrop of the imminent launch of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, which was the subject of last week’s…
Trillium Software Responds to Regulatory Pressure with Latest Release of Software System
Trillium Software’s latest release of Trillium Software System reflects growing requirements for self-service data management across financial firms’ lines of business as well as the need for speed in handling greater volumes of data. Version 14 of the software is available immediately and has been developed not only as a flexible tool for line of…
Experts Debate the Timeline, Benefits and Challenges of the Global LEI System
The expert panel on this week’s A-Team Hot Topics webinar on global legal entity identifier (LEI) expects the new standard to be fully operational by the end of 2013, as it builds momentum following next month’s official roll-out. With the establishment of a Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) early this year, the creation of a Central…