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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 – 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…
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…
TriOptima Partners Global Valuation Ltd. to Power triQuantify Counterparty Risk Analytics Service
TriOptima is planning a pilot programme for a counterparty credit risk analytics service for OTC derivatives called triQuantify. The solution is based on principles of massively parallel computing and is expected to be widely available later this year. TriOptima, a specialist in OTC derivatives post-trade risk management services owned by interdealer broker Icap, has licensed…
Opinion: Will Banks Meet The Regulatory Challenge?
By Stuart Grant, EMEA Business Development Manager – Financial ServicesSAP If we examine today’s regulatory landscape across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), we see a minefield of complexity and requirements that financial organisations must meet. In the UK specifically, with Basel III and papers such as The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS)…
Q&A: Dell’s Bob Barris on the ABCD of Big Data Analytics
Combining its server, storage and networking hardware with open source and partner software, and professional services, Dell is shaping up to be an IT heavyweight in the big data space. We tapped Dell VP of sales for financial services Bob Barris to explain the company’s offering, and he responded that it’s as easy as ABC…
LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee Names Leadership and Reprieves PSPG
The formation of a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system took a large step forward late last week when the first meeting of the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) took place in Toronto, taking over leadership and direction of the LEI initiative from the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and naming its leadership team. The meeting was…
Ion Trading Acquires Twice to Add Strength in Treasury Risk Management
Ion Trading is back on the acquisition trail, this time building strength in treasury management systems through last week’s takeover of Horsham, Pennsylvania-based Financial Software Systems and the acquisition the previous week of London-based IT2 Treasury Solutions, through subsidiary Wall Street Systems. A dark horse in capital markets, Dublin-headquartered Ion Trading has quietly developed a…
SEC Names RiskMetrics Co-Founder Gregg Berman as Head of Office of Analytics and Research
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named risk expert Gregg Berman as head of the Office of Analytics and Research in its Division of Trading and Markets. The office was set up last year to conduct research and analysis that will help inform the Commission’s policies on markets and market structure. Its focus…