Data Management Insight White Paper
Contractual Rights Management: It’s Time to Take Control of Data Usage
Contractual rights management has become a hot topic in financial information and market data circles following a number of public instances involving high-profile financial institutions breaching licensing agreements with data vendors – and paying the price with both significant financial penalties and damaged reputations. A potential solution for contractual rights management is the emerging Open...
Adopting AI for Superior Reconciliations
Firms’ reconciliation and exceptions management processes are manually intensive, expensive and prone to error. With rising compliance costs and greater competition narrowing margins in financial services, firms are looking to streamline their reconciliations processes through automation, giving them the opportunity to reduce the number of exceptions they manage and the time it takes to deal...
Addressing the Reference Data Challenges of SFTR
The EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), which comes into effect in April 2020, is a data-heavy transaction reporting regulation along the lines of MiFIR and EMIR, but has a significant reference data element as well. The regulation is extensive, with some 150 data fields in its mandatory regulatory reports, a dozen of which will...
Data as the Catalyst for Innovation in Asset and Wealth Management
Fund managers and wealth management firms are being squeezed between downward pressures on sources of revenues and upward pressures on costs. Firms are facing a migration to passive investment funds, with some research suggesting a one-third drop in active management fees by 2023. Meanwhile, the ongoing regulatory onslaught is adding to costs. Under pressure to...
Applying Emerging Technologies to Real-World Business Challenge in Financial Services
Today’s world of technology is evolving at lightning speed for financial services firms. Terms like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and distributed ledger technology (DLT) bandied about, technology conversations seem to be all about hype. The reality is that financial services firms need to understand the impact that these new technologies could have and...
Systematic Internalisation Under MiFID II: What’s Needed Now
From September 1, 2018, firms within the scope of MiFID II that breach volume thresholds set by ESMA on August 1, 2018 for internal matching of client orders will be required to register as systematic internalisers (SIs) and operate within the SI regime detailed in the regulation. Sounds pretty straightforward, but that is far from...
Embracing Client Behavioural Analysis for Improved Business Outcomes in Fund and Wealth Management
Emerging innovative technologies are presenting financial institutions with a unique opportunity to better understand the needs of their clients and cross-/up-sell accordingly. Tapping into new data sets and advanced data management techniques, financial institutions are starting to perform the kind of client behavioural analysis common in other industries. Retail financial institutions like fund managers are...
Vendor Contract Compliance: The Importance of Getting it Right
Understanding in-house consumption of vendor data and ensuring compliance with multiple contracts for market data and other information can be challenging, particularly for financial institutions managing large volumes of contract clauses across hundreds of suppliers. The contract compliance problem often revolves around institutions’ lack of transparency into actual data usage of information services they pay...
Managing data for the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)
FRTB presents banks with a number of organisational, computational and data granularity challenges. These require firms to review the structure of their trading desks, adopt revised risk models, and source extensive data including 10-plus years of time-series data. This white paper, sponsored by Thomson Reuters and GoldenSource, details the regulation’s demand for additional data, examines...
Meeting Client and Counterparty Identity Requirements Under MiFID II
The January 3, 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, requiring firms within its scope to ensure they have access to LEIs to identify all clients, counterparties and issuers they deal with. As the industry mantra goes, and in line with MiFID II and its related Markets...