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Opportunities (Let's Get Lots of Data)
Regulations are opening up opportunities for firms' data operations departments
Regulations: Constraining or Stimulating?
Have rules proved too restrictive, or have they yielded positive benefits?
Flood of Factors
Q&A with Deloitte's Dilip Krishna about risk data aggregation
Risk Data Preparedness Low, But Rising, Survey Finds
Deloitte Global research sees increasing challenges, but more effectiveness on risk infrastructure
Nomura Research Builds Mumbai Unit
The Japanese consultancy has hired Chiragra Chakrabarty, formerly a director at Deloitte and PwC, to lead its NRI FinTech unit in India
Sibos 2014: Growing KYC Demands Have Industry Revisiting Models
Know Your Customer (KYC) screening is as far from a differentiating function as possible for banks, but bloating costs and a messy process for clients have caused a new push among the major sell sides and technology providers to build out managed service…
Personnel Choices
Managing resources is increasingly being seen as an important part of efforts to improve data quality and consistency. This will require unorthodox and creative approaches to organizing and deploying data staff
Exchanges, FINRA Inch Closer to CAT Plan
US self-regulatory organizations including the US exchanges and regulator FINRA are preparing to narrow down the list of candidates for the role of processor of the US consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will capture all trades, quotes, cancellations…
Tsianaxis Joins Accenture
Vangelis Tsianaxis, who has worked on identifier, financial crime and risk issues at Deloitte and Citi, has joined the consulting firm
Taxed By Collection
Fatca regulation tax withholding is almost here, and industry experts outlined the burden firms are preparing to bear in a recent SIX Financial Information-sponsored discussion. Michael Shashoua reports on the data considerations and methods raised
Fatca's Endgame
Firms are thinking about the ways and means of complying with Fatca foreign tax withholding rules, even with incomplete guidance and preparation, as a key July 1 deadline approaches
Fatca Fatigue Increasing, Experts Say
Banks getting tired of incomplete information and spiralling costs of Fatca, experts on the regulation told attendees at an event organized by Inside Reference Data and SIX Financial Information
2013 Review: Budgets Drive, Hamper End-User Innovation
End-user firms continued to struggle with budget concerns in 2013, while striving to embrace innovative ways to view and use data.
Business Entity Data special report
December 2013 - sponsored by: DTCC, SIX Financial Information, S&P Capital IQ
Entities and Data at Fatca's Crossroads
Heading into 2014, registration systems for compliance with the US foreign accounts tax law are ramping up, and the specifics of how Fatca will govern are starting to be filled in. Michael Shashoua surveys the remaining knowns and unknowns
Deloitte Spain Taps SuperDerivatives' DGX Terminal for Corporate Treasury Clients
The Spanish business of accounting and consultancy firm Deloitte has rolled out derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives' cloud-based DGX data terminal platform to provide its customers with access to real-time cash…
Deloitte Study Finds Increased Risk Management Tech Spend
The eighth biennial survey on risk management practices concluded that almost two-thirds, or 65 percent, of financial services firms have upped their risk management and compliance spend. 58 percent say more increases are expected in the next three years.
Data Quality, Usage Issues Increasing, Survey Finds
Data quality is lacking and usage fees for data management tools are becoming more prominent areas of concern for the financial services industry, concludes a Deloitte report based on surveys of financial services professionals and additional research
Surveying the Social Data Frontier
New guidance from US regulators on what is permitted for communicating via social media could create a new source for securities reference data for data managers to consider. Michael Shashoua reports on the significance of the SEC and Finra moves, as…