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Data Management – a Finance, Risk and Regulatory Perspective
With financial institutions acquiring international businesses – whether through mergers-and-acquisitions activity or organic growth – crossborder trading and investment has become the norm. But with it comes a new level of complexity, as firms grapple to deal with multiple regulatory regimes, market conventions and business definitions. On top of this, the changing regulatory landscape is…
Razor Risk and Numerix Partnership Delivers Integrated Enterprise Risk Solution
TMX Group’s Razor Risk Technologies, the Australian enterprise risk provider acquired by TMX early last year, has teamed up with Numerix to strengthen its front-office capability and offer an integrated front-to-back risk solution. The Razor platform will call on Numerix’s pricing models for its credit risk, market risk and economic capital management solutions, supporting clients…
Misys Combines Existing and New Technology Concepts to Deliver Risk Insight
Misys has developed the risk aggregation tool and interactive dashboard it introduced as a component of Misys Global Risk in November 2012 to deliver Misys Risk Insight, a broader solution with dynamic functionality aimed at meeting the needs of both risk officers and business managers. Misys Global Risk, a modular enterprise risk platform, was the…
Numerix Embeds ActivePivot In-Memory Analytics to Extend CrossAsset Server Capability
Numerix has embedded Quartet FS’s ActivePivot in-memory analytics technology into its CrossAsset Server enterprise analytics engine to deliver real-time analysis, aggregation and visualisation of the large volumes of complex data that result from CrossAsset Service calculations of market risk and counterparty credit risk and derivatives valuations. The partnership provides the first best-of-breed addition to Numerix’s…
Quantifi Stresses Data Management Requirement for Basel III Credit Risk
Quantifi has built out its counterparty credit risk platform to meet the capital requirements of Basel III. But the company warns that data aggregation and management coupled to a centralised approach to the regulation are essential to full compliance and managing the cost of capital. Basel III regulation was finalised in June 2011 and will…
Aktia Retail Bank Selects SunGard Ambit Solution for Capital Management
Finnish retail bank Aktia is extending its use of SunGard’s Ambit risk and performance management solutions with the addition of Ambit Capital Management. The capital management application will replace a legacy vendor system, automate previously manual processes and deliver greater transparency and visibility of capital across the bank’s predominantly retail lending business. Aktia already uses…
A-Team Webinar Details the Need for Independent and Transparent Security Valuations
Independent and transparent security valuations have become essential to financial institutions that must meet growing regulatory requirements with a focus on valuations and liquidity. Panel members joining this week’s A-Team Group webinar, Managing Valuations Data for Optimal Risk Management, agreed that independence and transparency are key to valuations, and highlighted growing market understanding and interest…
Kove Proposes Memory-Disk Storage for Intra-Minute Risk Analysis
Kove, a provider of high-performance storage systems, is pitching the possibility of intra-minute risk analysis based on its memory-disk storage technology that includes highly deterministic input/output to allow data to be moved extremely quickly and central processing units (CPUs) supporting applications to run at 99% capacity. To test the performance of its storage in a…
Mizuho International Builds on Relationship with Wolters Kluwer for Basel III Reporting
Mizuho International, the London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho Financial Group, is building on an existing regulatory data management relationship with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services to meet the needs of Basel III reporting. The bank has licensed Wolters Kluwer’s Basel III compliant common reporting (CoRep), financial reporting (FinRep) and liquidity coverage ratio modules…
TriOptima Partners Global Valuation Ltd. to Power triQuantify Counterparty Risk Analytics Service
TriOptima is planning a pilot programme for a counterparty credit risk analytics service for OTC derivatives called triQuantify. The solution is based on principles of massively parallel computing and is expected to be widely available later this year. TriOptima, a specialist in OTC derivatives post-trade risk management services owned by interdealer broker Icap, has licensed…