NAB Custodian Services (NCS), a securities services provider in Australia, has appointed Markit provider of complex OTC derivatives valuations. Markit will provide NCS with an independent, post-trade calculation of the gross asset value of a portfolio of complex OTC derivative trades. Valuations will be provided on a daily basis for vanilla and exotic instruments, and a broad range of asset classes including credit, equity, currency, energy and interest rates.
The democratisation of data has encouraged engineers to think about how to make their data estates more accessible and useable for non-technical business end-users. Translating intention into data action requires careful configuration that enables consumers to mine insight, analytics and value without having to use precise technical terminology. Data engineers achieve this through semantic layers,...
By Neil Vernon, chief product officer at Gresham. The financial services industry has spent considerable energy debating whether AI is production-ready for regulated operations. That debate has been asking the wrong question. Readiness is not the constraint; targeting is. The real question is whether firms have correctly identified where AI can address costs that have...
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Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material...