Frankfurt Financial Information Summit
Frankfurt FIS 2014: For Regs, Prep Early and Coordinate
Firms must begin preparations to comply with new European and global regulation as soon as possible, setting up a priority-driven roadmap and boosting internal coordination, said panelists at this week's Frankfurt Financial Information Summit.
Luxoft Exec on LEI Integration Strategies
Torjus Jensen, managing director for financial services at Luxoft, explains that some firms are struggling to integrate legal entity identifiers into their systems because they don’t have a legal entity master in their reference data stack
Power to the Business
Front-office staff usually avoid getting involved in data strategy, but new efforts are being made to engage them by giving them greater control over the data they need
Deutsche Exec on Empowering Business Users, Demonstrating Value of EDM
Vaibhav Bhanot, director, enterprise architecture and strategy, at Deutsche Bank, says the bank plans to introduce a self-service model for data usage that will give business users greater control over the information they need
UBS Exec on the Benefits of Self-Service Data Usage
Sandeep Mehta, managing director, head of enterprise services, at UBS, explains how the bank is empowering its business staff by eliminating intermediaries between them and IT staff
Allianz Exec: Acquiring pre-LEIs For Funds Poses Challenges
An IT expert at Allianz Global Investors outlined the challenges of acquiring pre-legal entity identifiers for large numbers of funds and said his firm plans to use a combination of proprietary and vendor technology to integrate the identifiers, at the…
Bafin 'Mindful' of EMIR Reporting Challenges
A representative of the German regulator said it is aware of the challenges firms face to comply with the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, which were highlighted by speakers from the buy- and sell-side at the Frankfurt Financial Information…
Wells Fargo Exec: Some Hedge Funds Uncomfortable With Vendors' Evaluated Prices
A valuations executive at the fund administrator told delegates at this week's Frankfurt Financial Information Summit that although pricing and valuations vendors believe they have become much more transparent, some hedge funds are still not comfortable…
Nord LB Exec: Use Agile Development To Manage Uncertainty Of Regulations
An executive from the German bank told delegates at this week's Frankfurt Financial Information Summit that agile software development methodologies may be the best way to prepare for new regulations which are still being developed
Nord LB Builds Clearing Business From Dodd-Frank Compliance
The regional German bank plans to use its clearing facilities interfaces to offer clearing services for client banks that lack resources to create their own connections that meet regulatory mandates
Frankfurt Summit: Firms Put Brakes on Latency Race, Panel Says
Panelists say lowest latency is no longer as important as overall infrastructure management
Frankfurt Summit: Panel Cites Data Quality, IT and Client Confidence as Valuations, Pricing Challenges
Reliable data, technology, models and trust are key issues for users and providers of evaluated prices
