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Swedbank Robur Extends use of SimCorp Dimension to Cover Solvency II

Swedbank Robur has extended its use of SimCorp Dimension to include the software provider’s Solvency II solution. The asset manager was already using Dimension as its core investment management platform and its choice of the software for Solvency II was a natural move as the platform already includes most of the functionality required to meet…

Thomson Reuters Develops Accelus Governance, Risk and Compliance Platform

Thomson Reuters is building out its Accelus governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform with an updated user interface for Accelus Risk Manager, additional workflow tools and further functionality including the company’s BoardLink portal, enhanced disclosure capabilities and e-learning. Thomson Reuters’ GRC business was established about three years ago, with the Accelus brand following about six…

OFI Mandats Switches from Deployed to SaaS Version of Linedata Chorus

OFI Mandats, the investment management services provider for insurance funds within OFI Group, has switched from the in-house deployed version of Linedata’s Chorus investment accounting software to the recently released software-as-a-service (SaaS) version. Its aim is to modernise and improve the security of the solutions it offers to its clients and, through the inclusion of…

Razor Risk and Numerix Partnership Delivers Integrated Enterprise Risk Solution

TMX Group’s Razor Risk Technologies, the Australian enterprise risk provider acquired by TMX early last year, has teamed up with Numerix to strengthen its front-office capability and offer an integrated front-to-back risk solution. The Razor platform will call on Numerix’s pricing models for its credit risk, market risk and economic capital management solutions, supporting clients…

StatPro Adds Regulatory Compliance Solutions to Revolution Cloud Platform

StatPro has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to the StatPro Revolution App Store. The module is designed to help asset managers meet UCITS IV regulation and is the first in series of regulatory compliance solutions being developed for the StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics cloud platform. The exposure and liquidity monitoring tool is…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: IBOR, Therefore I Am

Eighteen months ago, we conducted a survey of 40 or so enterprise architects and data management professionals at Tier 1 and Tier 2 buy- and sell-side firms to try to understand how Big Data could be applied to our marketplace. The answers – you can download the report, sponsored by Platform Computing (now part of…

BNY Mellon Report Explores Big Data in Finance, in the 21st Century

A report recently published by BNY Mellon – it’s available to anyone who request it from them – takes a look at big data, its definition and its potential, and “sketches its transformational influence on the 21st century global financial system, mainly from an asset management perspective.” The report was written by Jack Malvey, chief…

FATCA – Ask for Directions or Read the Map?

By Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft. The approach to handling transaction data for FATCA reporting should build on both ‘male’ and ‘female’ strengths in the organisation. Looking at transactions, we see that FATCA requires the reporting of a) individuals’ account balances (and in due course, income and proceeds) and b) withholding tax. This is detailed…

Industry Underprepared for OTC Derivatives Trading and Market Regulation

By Ganesh Iyer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services, IPC Systems While recent years have seen much talk of financial reforms, there has remained a distinct lack of clarity around what new regulations will mean for financial institutions. In the trading industry, the regulations that will have the biggest impact are European Market Infrastructure…

Financial Stability Board Suggests Centralised Trade Data Aggregation System for OTC Derivatives Market

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is addressing issues of data aggregation for regulatory purposes in the OTC derivatives market with the suggestion of ‘a centralised or other mechanism to produce and share global aggregated data as a complement to the direct access by the different authorities to data held by trade repositories’. The FSB notes…