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Misys Pitches Sophis Value as an IBOR Solution
Misys is responding to buy-side need for an Investment Book of Record (IBOR) with its Sophis Value cross-asset, front-to-back-office investment management suite. The positioning of Sophis Value as a solution that enables firms to maintain an IBOR comes ahead of a wider product positioning and rebranding campaign that is expected to improve the alignment of…
Charles River Shrink Wraps Compliance Solution to Offer Compliance as a Service
Charles River has packaged the compliance module of its Investment Management Solution to offer Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) to asset managers seeking economic and efficient start-of-day portfolio compliance. The service is cloud based and integrates software, data and advisory services that include writing and maintaining compliance system rules. It is designed to help small and medium-sized firms…
Markit Develops Managed Services With CTI Acquisition
Markit’s agreement to acquire tax compliance and reporting services specialist Compliance Technologies International (CTI) will add a tax component to the company’s managed regulatory reporting services that already include the Counterparty Manager platform and the recently introduced Markit | Genpact Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Services. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed and the transaction…
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Risk Require a New Approach
Regulation and risk are driving a new approach to data management across financial markets, but they are not the only drivers as firms seek cost reductions, operational efficiencies and a means of using data as a business asset. These issues and more were debated by a panel of experts at last week’s A-Team Group Data…
Lombard Risk Offers Free XBRL-Checker to Support Corep Compliance
Lombard Risk Management is offering firms that must comply with the latest Common Reporting (Corep) rules a free eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) checker to help them resolve XBRL validation errors that can occur when submitting required reports to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The FCA’s Gabriel reporting system has been in place since…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2014
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the A-Team Regulatory Data Handbook. We trust you’ll find this guide a useful addition to the resources at your disposal as you navigate the maze of emerging regulations that are making ever more strenuous reporting demands on financial institutions everywhere. In putting the Handbook together, our rationale has been…
Data Management Summit: Regulation and Cost Drive Adoption of Data Utilities
The potential of reference data utilities to cut data management costs and improve data quality was a hot topic at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management Summit in New York. Most speakers and delegates agreed that data utilities will become part of the capital markets landscape, but exactly how they will operate and how the…
A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into the Data Management Challenges of FATCA
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) comes into effect on 1 July 2014 and presents, perhaps, the most challenging data management issues that financial institutions will face this year. The volume of data is one problem, the complexity of requirements is another, and the whole is not helped by recent changes to FATCA rules…
Swift Adds Compliance Analytics Tool for Network Traffic Data
Swift has extended its Compliance Services portfolio with the addition of Compliance Analytics, a business intelligence tool that aggregates Swift network data to help banks visualise their global transaction flows and identify any unexpected activities. Swift touched on the analytics tool back in January when it discussed its intention to build a portfolio of compliance…
Tackling the Data Management Challenges of FATCA
As the July 1, 2014 deadline for compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – or FATCA – approaches, financial institutions around the world are working to ensure their data management and operational systems will meet the requirements of the US legislation. This report discusses the requirements of FATCA and how the legislation is…