Interview with
Practice Makes Perfect
Ten years after the creation of the Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG) data specialist Karla McKenna talks to Carla Mangado about the group's ongoing efforts to facilitate market practice industry-wide and the key achievements of the corporate…
Counterparty Time
Counterparty data projects are appearing across the industry. Market veteran David Goldberg talks to Carla Mangado about this newly emerging career path
Nat Sey - Asian Explosion
A growing number of reference data vendors are expanding in the Asia Pacific region, where market participants expect data consumption to rocket in coming years. For the last three months, Interactive Data's Nat Sey has experienced this booming region up…
Chief Thinking
There are two types of CDOs. One is currently being met with scepticism in certain investor communities. But the other - the chief data officer - is growing in popularity. As data management matures as a discipline, management structures and people…
Quality Counts
UBS's Sean Taylor talks to Carla Mangado about how data quality is still in the spotlight when it comes to counterparty data and compliance
A Year of Opportunity
After eight weeks as head of Telekurs UK, Martin Cole gives an exclusive interview to IRD, discussing his top priorities this year and the uncertainties in the market
A Life WithBasel II
Citigroup's customer data veteran Julia Sutton talks to Carla Mangado about the complexities of Basel II and why regulation is essential if the industry is to move forward
Diving into Data
Tine Thoresen talks to Bank of Scotland's Ross Gourlay about his new "data lifestyle" within the group
Downto theCore
After five years as chief information officer of Swiss American Securities, Christian Hudson tells Inside Reference Data how he has managed to improve data management processes with a lean workforce. Reference data is at the core of the business, he says
A Woman of Actions
IRD talks to Natalie O'Connell about automation, notification standards and proxy voting in the corporate actions arena
Israel Goes Global
Ester Levanon took up her position as chief executive officer of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange with an aim to go global. Sixteen months down the road, she can celebrate a strengthened relationship with the London Stock Exchange as well as a FTSE country…
Standardizing Standards
Lack of standards for securities data has been an ongoing concern for financial institutions, and global harmonization similar to that experienced by the retail industry does for many seem like a far-away dream. But as Swift's business manager for…
Roberts Takes the Wheel
The new head of Accenture's capital markets North America practise speaks to Tine Thoresen about her data management plans for the division
Horizontal Service Horizons
Rob Casper, managing director, global head of reference data, Morgan Stanley, talks to Phil Albinus
AXA-IM's Malaval Looks to Central Business Management
Valerie Malaval, head of data management at AXA-Investment Management, granted an exclusive interview with IRD this month. She discusses a reference data project at the Paris-based asset manager, and looks at the growth of the industry as a whole
The Trouble with Spreadsheets
Alan Paris of PricewaterhouseCoopers tells Elizabeth Lumley that the industry needs to remember how work is actually done on the desktop when planning a global, enterprise-wide data management project
I Want You to Take Charge...
Wall Street stalwart Allan Grody has close to four decades' experience of financial data management - none of which have seen the emergence of standards. He tells Elizabeth Lumley why the CEOs of the big firms need to step up to the plate
Interview With... The Data Management Battlefield.
David Goldberg, global head of data management at UBS, is a veteran of the struggle to deal with legacy data. Here, he talks to Elizabeth Lumley about the data management landscape at UBS
... The Data Management Evangelist
Mike Atkin, managing director of the Enterprise Data Management Council, is passionate about the need to place reference data at the heart of the financial services industry. Elizabeth Lumley finds him excited about the future