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IFRS 9 Data Management: The Convergence of Finance and Risk
By Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph The siloed delivery of data and technology has evolved quite naturally in most financial institutions. Whether the split lies across business units, geographic boundaries, asset classes or job functions – the complexity of most large organisations has led different teams to pursue their own unique requirements and procurement decisions regarding…
Recorded Webinar: MiFID II – How prepared are we?
With the compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) just over six months away on 3 January 2018, how ready are market practitioners to meet the challenges and obligations of the regulation? This webinar will identify outstanding challenges and how they can be approached, discuss how practitioners are sourcing required –…
FRTB Data Management Challenges Call for an Immediate Start on Implementation
The compliance deadline of Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation may be 18 months away, but the data management challenges it presents suggest firms should start implementation early to deal with the details. Among the most pressing challenges are souring required market data, ensuring data accuracy, accessing data in a timely way and…
FRTB’s First Steps and Stages
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation being instituted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in January 2019 is the de facto successor to the global banking supervision organisation’s Basel III guidelines on market risk and capital adequacy. Financial services firms are beginning to consider the demands FRTB makes on their…
Recorded Webinar: Get to grips with FRTB data and data management requirements
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) sets out a revised market risk framework and proposals to improve capital requirements. Although the regulation’s compliance deadline is 18 months away and some details have yet to be finalised, financial institutions need to be preparing now as FRTB is complex, presents significant data management challenges and…
Recorded Webinar: Learning from MiFID II for CAT reporting and data management
Compliance with the SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) regulation is just over 18 months away, meaning broker dealers within the scope of the regulation need to get started on their response. Like Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), CAT reporting presents significant – and similar – data management challenges, particularly around customer, account…
Data Processing Strides Pave The Way To More TCA Capability
Squarepoint Capital’s expansion of its use of Kx Systems technology for investment research capitalises on the provider’s strength at normalising data, tying together data sources and increasing the speed of its data processing — in a manner that sets the stage for more effective transaction cost analysis (TCA). Squarepoint uses Kx Systems’ Kdb+ time-series database…
Santander Picks Opus Platform To Ensure Compliance
Santander UK has deployed the Hiperos 3PM third-party risk management platform from Opus, a London-based compliance solutions provider, to ensure the bank’s compliance with UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) guidelines, according to Ben Gould, managing director of EMEA & APAC at Opus. “Santander executives were interested in becoming fully compliant with FCA guidelines for managing…
‘Multi-Genre Analytics’ Emerges For Pre-Trade Assessments
Data analytics provider Teradata has developed a new type of algorithmic analytics applicable to securities trading information, called “multi-genre analytics.” Teradata developed the service in response to firms seeing predictive models as a cost they get stuck with when those models are needed for certain kinds of trades, says Sri Raghavan, global product marketing manager….
Numerix Gets Real-Time Enhancements
Risk technology company Numerix’s acquisition last month of TFG Financial Systems is a first step in adding a “deeper bench of analytics” for pricing and risk to its Oneview Enterprise Platform, according to Steven O’Hanlon, CEO and president of the company. TFG Financial Systems offers real-time risk, profit-and-loss and position management services, including dependency graph…