A-Team Insight White Paper
8-Step Guide to Choosing the Right Market Data Inventory Platform
Market data inventory platforms have been used by financial institutions to track, manage and control market data for decades, but as technology has developed, so too have inventory platforms, raising questions about the capabilities of current solutions and pointing to the possibilities of migrating to more modern platforms. This White Paper, sponsored by TRG, considers...
The Reference Data Utility: How Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley are breaking the reference data mold
The Reference Data Utility (RDU) built by SmartStream and backed by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley is up and running and ready to deliver reference data management services to the banks. The concept of multi-tenant data utilities is not new, but none have achieved buy-in at the level of the RDU,...
Meeting the Data Challenge of AIFMD
The Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) came into effect in 2013. Most financial institutions within its scope, particularly hedge funds and firms that service those funds, have since completed the majority of work required to meet their obligations under the regulation, but some thorny data management issues remain. Hedge funds are challenged by the...
Only Reason for Time
According to Albert Einstein “…is so that everything doesn’t happen at once”. Consider yourself in the shoes of a timekeeper of athletic events. The stakes are high, consequently the choice of tools for the job imperative. Endurance or sprint? This question is at the forefront when it comes to providing the appropriate accuracy and granularity...
Navigating BCBS 239 and the New Stress-Testing Regime
Rigorous stress testing – and emerging regulations like Basel’s BCBS 239 – mean that the risk and finance functions can no longer act in isolation. Regulators are increasingly seeking a true, holistic view of risk. To deliver on the new requirement, banks need to reinvent their infrastructures and operating models, making sure all elements of...
Tracking bonds for Solvency II’s Matching Adjustment
How are you tracking bonds that are eligible for Solvency II’s Matching Adjustment (MA)? With the January 2016 deadline looming, insurance companies and the asset managers that service them need to be able to identify eligible assets in their portfolio. But there’s no single list, rather a set of criteria to be followed, resulting in...
Predictive Power of Acuity Trading’s Sentiment Indicators
Undertaken by research partner Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and led by Professor Argimiro Arratia, author of Computational Finance: An Introductory Course with R, this research was conducted on Acuity’s eleven news – based public sentiment indices to identify which sentiment indicator or combination of indicators provided the most reliable forecast. This research was commissioned to provide tangible...
A Utility Approach for Operational Process Improvement
Data management is a high-cost, no-margin activity for financial institutions across the board. Business requirements and regulatory pressure demand more depth of processing and breadth of reporting than ever before. At the same time, high quality data sourcing, validation and enrichment are essential to achieving operational optimization. Yet most firms are reluctant to increase investment...
MiFID II: Practical Considerations for Gainful Compliance
The EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II – which applies from January 2018 – aims to extend the market transparency introduced by its predecessor regulation to new areas of the marketplace. In many cases, MiFID II will be more granular, more prescriptive and more onerous than MiFID I, raising business and technology challenges...
Trade Europe Now
This paper has been written to provide a guide to effective electronic trading in Europe. It offers an overview of current state of play in the European market as well as dispelling myths surrounding MIFID II. It examines what elements are needed to effectively trade Europe, specifically looking at selecting the right physical point of...