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Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: A Glimpse into the Mysterious World of ION Trading
Financial Technology Partners’ announcement this month of its client Carlyle Group’s recent $400 million acquisition of a ‘minority stake’ in ION Investment Group offered an interesting glimpse into the capabilities of the secretive Irish trading technology specialist. The FTP announcement, issued on June 3, quoted Cam Dyer, managing director of Carlyle’s Global Technology, Media and…
DTCC Data Products Adds Liquidity Coverage Ratio Data Service
DTCC has developed a Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) Data Service that will be available later this month and delivered as a data-as-a-service solution by DTCC Data Products, a centralised market data provisioning service set up a year ago to allow faster and smarter access to DTCC data. The LCR Data Service is designed to help…
A-Team Data Management Summit Outlines Elements of Optimal Data Management
Organising for optimal data management, transformation challenges, operational models, data quality, emerging technologies, data governance and, of course, regulation were top agenda items at A-Team Group’s recent Data Management Summit in New York City. The first keynote speaker, David Luria, vice president, front office data intelligence programs at T. Rowe Price, set the scene for…
Markit Mixes Old and New to Deliver FRTB Compliance Solution
Markit is pulling together existing products and new developments to deliver a compliance solution for the market risk capital requirements of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), which comes into force in 2019. The solution is based on a modular platform, allowing banks to supplement existing infrastructure and processes as needed, and is…
BCBS 239 and Beyond: Avoid the Traps and Navigate the Changing Landscape
The incoming Head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), reiterated the significance of The Senior Management Regime (SMR), which became law on 7th March. This gives executive management legal responsibility for their decisions. BCBS 239 regulates assembly of data used for these decisions. Individual managers are accountable for decisions they take and for ensuring data…
Recorded Webinar: How to Track Data Lineage for Enterprise Data Management
Data lineage, the ability to track the source and lifecycle of your reference data, is becoming increasingly important as regulations call for greater transparency and risk managers require confidence in the data feeding their models. What regulations are driving the need for data lineage, what do you need to be able to demonstrate, and what…
Asset Control Integrates Matlab with AC Plus Data Management Platform
Asset Control has integrated its AC Plus data management platform with MathWorks’ Matlab financial analytics language to bring data and financial models closer together and deliver more robust calculation and validation of risk factor and valuations data. The integration recognises the use of Matlab by many Asset Control customers and overcomes the need to move…
Kingland Systems Delivers Risk and Compliance Solutions Based on Data Science
Kingland Systems is building out its portfolio of data management solutions with a data diagnostics service designed to help users improve entity data quality, the implementation of cognitive technology to ease the burden of data management, and plans for a platform that will support the lifecycle of data. Kingland was founded in 1992 with a…
European Commission Proposes One-Year Postponement of MiFID II Compliance Deadline
The European Commission has responded to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) request to postpone the compliance deadline of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) with a proposal for a one-year extension of the deadline to 3 January 2018. While the proposal, which must be approved by the European Parliament and EU…
AxiomSL Adds Solution for SA-CCR Compliance to Regulatory Reporting Platform
AxiomSL has added a solution that meets the requirements of Basel’s Standardised Approach for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk Exposures (SA-CCR) to its regulatory reporting platform ahead of the rule’s compliance deadline of January 1st 2017. SA-CCR will replace the Current Exposure Method and Standardised Method calculations enshrined in the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV)…