Data Management Insight White Paper
Optimising Market Data Subscriptions with Usage Monitoring
As lines of business demand access to more market data and firms seek to cut the overall cost of data services, the need to understand what market data services are being accessed and used becomes imperative to optimising data subscriptions. This is a challenge, but is made more difficult in an environment where new data...
Breaking the EDM Mould
The regulatory drive for transparency across capital markets is pushing traditional enterprise data management (EDM) solutions, such as data warehouse platforms and extract, transform and load (ETL) systems, towards breaking point. An emerging and disruptive approach to EDM is based on open source high-performance data bus technologies that are particularly good at ingesting and routing...
Preparing for MiFID II Data Requirements
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is a wide-ranging regulation that aims to add transparency to Europe’s financial services sector in order to ensure investor protection and integrity of markets. The regulation extends the scope of MiFID, which focused on equities, to cover pre-trade, trade and post-trade activities across many asset classes. This...
How Agile Data Management Can Power Business Transformation
Asset managers challenged by increasing regulatory costs and decreasing fees are embarking on business transformation programmes designed to provide more innovative ways to service clients and, in turn, help managers regain competitive edge in a difficult economic environment. Transformation programmes can range from an expansion of asset classes covered, to the introduction of new products...
Applying Open Data Principles to Financial Data Governance
To ensure sound data governance, an enterprise needs a centralised framework for understanding all data, typically an online data catalogue that lists data sources and the metadata that describes data characteristics and provenance. With a data catalogue in place, data quality and data management can then be addressed. Getting started on data governance can be...
Meeting the Complex Data Management Challenges of Shareholding Disclosures
Getting shareholder disclosure right has become a priority for financial institutions that are already required to monitor breaches of ownership thresholds that are used to protect sensitive industries, but must also comply with the EU Transparency Directive Amending Directive (TDAD). The directive came into effect in November 2015 and requires firms to analyse holdings of...
Managing Enterprise Data and Subscriptions Spend
Financial institutions consume a broad range of services on a subscription basis to meet their business needs. These include market data and electronic information services, subscriptions for print and web-based publications, and increasingly, consultancy, software, hardware and telecommunications services. As consumption rises, so too can costs, calling on firms to take a proactive approach to...
Harmonising the Approach to Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance is key to financial institutions, but it can be costly and difficult to achieve in an environment where new regulations are constantly on the horizon and must be implemented efficiently and effectively. This White Paper, sponsored by Thomson Reuters and based on a survey of close to 70 senior data managers, discusses how...
Deriving True Business Value from the Global LEI
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – the free-to-use entity identifier – has established itself as a viable standard for helping financial institutions identify unique business entities that are parties to financial transactions. But it’s widely accepted to have its limitations. In particular, a lack of standardization and ability to link to associated data sets is...
Building the Business Case for Joining the Reference Data Utility
The benefits of joining a reference data management utility include the ability to improve data quality, simplify complex data management infrastructures, meet constantly expanding and changing regulatory requirements, and realise significant reductions in operating costs. This White Paper, sponsored by SmartStream, describes four business cases that can be addressed by adopting a utility-based approach to...