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Global Merces Selects SS&C Solutions to Support Growth
Australian alternative asset manager, Global Merces, has selected SS&C’s investment accounting, asset servicing and mutual fund platforms to support growth both locally and globally. The deal marks SS&C’s first Australian client win since it closed the acquisition of DST Systems earlier this year. Global Merces selected SS&C’s HiTrust unit registry and pricing solution because it…
MiFID II handbook, third edition – How compliant are you?
Six months after Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) went live, how compliant is your organisation? If you took a tactical approach to cross the compliance line on January 3, 2018, how are you reviewing and renewing systems to take a more strategic approach and what are the business benefits of doing so?…
Data Management for Compliance, Business Performance and Reduced Costs
Regulatory compliance is non-negotiable, business performance is crucial, and pressure on costs is continual. So, how can you source and manage data once for both compliance and performance, and how can you contain costs? These questions and more were addressed during a recent A-Team Group webinarhosted by A-Team editor Sarah Underwood and joined by Dessa Glasser,…
FCA Reiterates Need for LEIs in Run Up to July 3 Deadline
The UK regulator has reminded firms and counterparties within the scope of MiFID II to ensure they meet the regulation’s Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) requirement before the extended deadline of July 3, 2018. “After July 3 firms will be required to gather (and be in a position to report) their clients’ LEIs before they trade…
Arkéa IS Selects NeoXam Tracker 3 to Improve Portfolio Management
Arkéa Investment Services (Arkéa IS), the asset management and private banking arm of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, has selected NeoXam Tracker 3 as a front-to-middle office portfolio management system for its affiliates Federal Finance Gestion and Schelcher Prince Gestion. NeoXam Tracker 3 will bring together Arkéa IS’s activities on a single platform, simplifying harmonisation of its…
AML – More Focus in 2018 for the FCA and Firms
By Philip Naughton, Head of UK Compliance, Cordium The regulatory landscape for anti-money laundering (AML) is continuing to evolve, and for financial institutions struggling under an increasingly heavy regulatory burden, we at Data Management Review felt that this article from financial services tech consultancy Cordium was of particular interest in highlighting the upcoming AML upgrades…
Recorded Webinar: The challenges of managing data for regulatory compliance and business performance
Regulatory compliance is non-negotiable and business performance based on a solid understanding of data is no longer a ‘nice to have’ but critical to success. The webinar will consider the challenges of sourcing and managing data for both compliance and performance, identify areas where data can be processed once for both purposes, and discuss data…
GDPR Week One: Outstanding Data Management Challenges and a Quick Start Solution
The May 25, 2018 deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may have come and gone, but the compliance journey is only just beginning as firms review systems built to get them over the line and plan more robust and sustainable solutions that can support a cost-efficient response to data subject access requests and accommodate…
Improving Operational Efficiency in the Data Management Process
By: Hugo Boer, Senior Product Manager, Asset Control As the financial services industry starts to harness a raft of new data sources for fast, effective and usable insights, the bottleneck for financial institutions becomes how well they really understand their data management processes. How many firms, for example, can answer the following questions: Do we…
Recorded Webinar: Data Management for CAT reporting
The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) conceived by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the wake of the 2010 Flash Crash has been a long time in the making, but is now approaching go live with large broker-dealers expected to begin reporting trades in November 2018. The webinar will detail CAT data requirements, review…