Data Management Insight White Paper
The Waiting Game: Standards in Corporate Actions Processing
There has been some real action of late in the standards space for corporate actions. In the US, the SEC issued a requirement for corporations to report in XBRL, and the XBRL US organisation has announced a project with the DTCC and Swift to tie the standard into ISO 20022, all of which could optimistically...
Expanding Global Identifiers in Complex Assets and Other Areas
In the post-credit crisis financial services industry, risk management, compliance and transparency have emerged as focus points for review with provision of accurate and timely data recognised as a critical element of success. Fundamental to data provision is the accurate identification of both financial instruments and counterparties – without which you cannot truly measure your...
The Never-ending Story? Progress in the Automation of Corporate Actions
Only a few years ago – but crucially, prior to the financial crisis – surveys which reviewed progress towards corporate actions automation highlighted the key drivers for automation as reducing costs and inefficiencies. Whilst important, these were essentially technical objectives and correspondingly the debate, and its participants, inclined heavily towards the operational parts of the...
Harnessing Data for Better Valuations
A-Team Group, a publishing and research company specialising in financial information technology, was commissioned by enterprise data management specialist GoldenSource to conduct research into the challenges of managing pricing and valuations data. Throughout the course of October 2009, A-Team Group researchers interviewed senior-level specialists closely aligned to market data or valuations. Several spanned multiple responsibilities...
Market and Reference Data Converge: A United Front for Data Management
A new industry briefing paper prepared by A-Team Group for GoldenSource looks at the inevitable convergence of market and reference data. There has been, to date, a real disconnect between the management of market data in all its forms and reference data used in post-trade support functions. But this is changing as banks scramble to...
Business Entity Identifiers – The Crucial Foundation for Accurate Risk Management (Japanese Version)
As the financial world continues to grapple with the fallout of the credit crisis, one thing is clear: managing risk is now paramount to the surviving financial institutions. But you can’t manage what you don’t know. Many financial institutions have been caught in the current environment through a lack of awareness of their true exposure...
A-Team Group’s Valuations Vendor Directory 2009
An indispensable guide to valuations professionals seeking providers of services in the asset valuations market. A-Team Group’s latest release in its series of directories – available for FREE download – focuses on vendors of valuations data, models and analytics. But this is not just another list of firms with their telephone numbers – you can get that...
Business Entity Identifiers – The Crucial Foundation for Accurate Risk Management
As the financial world continues to grapple with the fallout of the credit crisis, one thing is clear: managing risk is now paramount to the surviving financial institutions. But you can’t manage what you don’t know. Many financial institutions have been caught in the current environment through a lack of awareness of their true exposure...
Surviving the Liquidity Crisis with Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
Written by: Neil Edelstein, Senior Director, Product Development, GoldenSource Corporation. Throughout the boom in complex leveraged and collateralized debt instruments, high yields have all but blinded investors to the significant risk. Now that the market has turned sour, and lenders are calling in the debts, investors are learning the hard way exactly how CDOs and...
Syn~ Scalability Benchmark
Summary This document describes an exercise to measure the scalability and performance of the Syn~Settlements application upon a Linux/HP platform. The results recorded include: ~ demonstrated scalability consistent with a linear model; ~ peak throughput of the scalable system at 77K trades per hour; ~ demonstrated efficacy of quad-core processor architectures as a means of...