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Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Bringing Markit EDM to Market

In recent weeks, on my usual rounds of meetings in the City – and in New York during Sifma week – I have been peppered by questions about the recent spate of corporate activity among enterprise data management platforms. In the two most visible examples, big data vendors have snapped up small, second-generation EDM platform…

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Riding the Regulatory Wave

Some years ago, I debated with the president of a well known enterprise data management platform provider about whether the market’s obsession with risk represented the ‘killer app’ the EDM segment had long been searching for. He wasn’t entirely convinced; I, of course, was. And although there are many good reasons to embark on an…

High-Performance Trading Infrastructure on Demand

Financial markets firms can no longer spend what it takes to compete in the “low latency arms race.” The new reality demands high performance to be competitive with peers, but with an emphasis on upfront deployment and ongoing operational costs. High performance is measured not simply in trading execution speed and round-trip latency figures. Those…

Asset Control Sees Broadening of Data Management Requirement in Japan

Asset Control’s decision to open an office in Tokyo – announced today – stems from a heightened level of interest both from the Japanese financial centre’s major banking institutions and the key service agents that provide trading-related capabilities to much of the domestic market. The data management platform provider has announced plans to bolster its…

Andrew’s Blog – Risk Architectures R Us

For those of you who missed last month’s seminar in London on approaches to risk data, fret no more: We will be continuing the debate next Thursday in a webinar with our friends from Lloyds Bank, Sybase and Fidessa; sign up here, it’s free, and it’ll also give you a flavour of what we have…

Getting a Grip on Fragmented Risk Data – A Holistic Approach to Risk Information

This white paper is based on primary research by A-Team interviewing senior IT and Data Strategy managers at tier 1 and tier 2 banks. Risk management has been accepted as the new imperative for financial institutions of all types and sizes. But for Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks and brokerages, the complexity of their…

Andrew’s Blog – It’s All About Risk (Data)

This week sees the release of an industry briefing we prepared for Sybase entitled ‘Managing Risk Data in the Siloed Enterprise’. I’ll be presenting the key findings at an event in London on Tuesday, where I’ll be joined by a group of risk managers and data architects – as well as Sybase’s Stuart Grant, IDC…

LEI Readiness – Instant Integration with Alacra Concordance

The idea of an LEI pre-dates the 2008 financial crisis by several decades. The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) had advocated an LEI (at one time called the IBEI – International Business Entity Identifier) for many years, but was unable to pinpoint an organization ready to build and maintain such a directory. For many securities…

Asset Control Readies AC Plus Data Platform for Transparency Regulations

Asset Control has rebuilt the heart of its AC Plus data management platform to meet demands for transparency in pending regulations such as the US Dodd-Frank Act and Europe’s Basel III and Solvency II directives. The transparency aspects of incoming regulations is having a significant impact on firms’ approaches to data management, a theme that…

Demand for Data Management Driven by Risk and Regulation

Cadis, the global EDM specialist, has secured 19 new global clients in 2011. These firms benefit from cleansed, validated and centralised data to feed into their risk, trading and compliance platforms. New notable clients include Prudential, ING, Loomis Sayles, Robeco, SCOR Global Investments and Indexium. “2012 will be the year of data overload for financial…