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Communication Surveillance: A Daunting Challenge
Marina Daras talks to banks and vendors to see how they approach communication surveillance, and what kind of technology can be deployed to help them with this challenge.
The Big Deal with BYOD
The journey of BYOD policies in financial services
Pawar to the People: AQR CTO Neal Pawar
AQR CTO Neal Pawar’s background in theater has given him the benefit of being able to relate to different people while managing projects. Dan DeFrancesco sits down with Pawar to talk about his path to AQR and what lies ahead.
Gliding Down: Pensions Seek to Match Tech to LDI Strategies
After fits and starts, defined-benefit corporate pension plans on both sides of the Atlantic are now in steady pursuit of liability-driven investment strategies that more closely align future responsibilities and current assets. This has had a meaningful…
Fintech Takes the UK by Storm
A quiet current of growth in financial technology has built into a storm over the past few years, driven in large part by a start-up culture that seeks to both disrupt and complement the efforts of traditional vendors and investment banks. London has…
FIX-ing Liquidity in Fixed Income
Project Neptune aims to help firms access liquidity in fixed income.
Evaluated, Scrutinized
Risk and Regulation Put Pressure on Pricing Services
Independence and Ownership
Participants in a London roundtable, hosted by Waters Technology and sponsored by Rimes Technologies, said have seen increased autonomy for data management units, while changes in ownership culture may put vendors on notice. Michael Shashoua reports
Risk Data Aggregation Begins With Division, Executives Say
Panelists Advocate Ownership Interest in Specific Pieces of Information
The Big Picture Of Solvency II
The European capital adequacy reporting regulation, taking effect in about a year, will require tracking of more data, under new classifications. Financial firms, including those serving the insurance sector that is the focus of the rules, are working…
Think Different, Be Different: Thomas Biotteau, Kepler Cheuvreux
Kepler Cheuvreux’s head of execution, Thomas Biotteau, talks to Marina Daras about the merger between Kepler Capital Markets and CA Cheuvreux, and what makes up the strength of the newly formed European broker.
Scrutinizing the Hybrid Data Model
At a roundtable hosted by Waters and sponsored by Rimes Technologies, following the firm’s Data Governance Conference in London on November 4, participants debated the state of data governance, the role of hybrid data models within financial services…
Capability Key as Data Management, Storage Rise to Cloud
Cost no longer the lone differentiator, panelists say.
Emerging Exchanges: Partnering for Power
Exchanges in emerging markets are teaming up with developed exchanges for technology and knowledge.
Centralization Proving Key To Data Management
Benchmark Data Costs Can Be Reduced By Managed Services, Roundtable Panelists Say
Corporate Actions Varieties Increase
More Variations Create Processing Complications
Taking Aim at AIFMD
Data Quality Challenges a Concern for Alternative Fund Managers as Reporting Deadline Passes
Managing Data Services Reveal Benefits In Quality, Timeliness and Governance
Managed data services are driving higher-quality data, decreasing the time needed to develop data sets and making data management and governance easier, said panelists in a recent webcast sponsored by Rimes Technologies. Michael Shashoua reports
Ever Vigilant: Neuberger Berman CISO Robert Ganim
Waters profiles Neuberger Berman's first ever chief information security officer
The Push Toward Managed Data Services
TCO involves a proper data governance program to succeed.
KYC: Know Your Choices
Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, hardly a bank’s most value-added function, have become a popular topic among operations, compliance, and reference data professionals, with a growing consensus that KYC checks can be done cheaper and more…
Bond Trading Resists Electronification, But for How Long?
The bond market is the last bastion of Wall Street to resist electronification, despite the success of certain e-trading platforms like MarketAxess, Tradeweb and Bloomberg. Many buy-side traders have warned that the current market structure is not suited…
CAT Conundrum: SROs, Vendors Vie to Build Consolidated Audit Trail
In 2012, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 613, requesting the industry to develop a plan to build and run a platform capable of tracking and storing information on every order, cancellation, modification and trade execution for…
China Opens Up Capital Markets with Hong Kong Connection
With the impending launch of the Shanghai–Hong Kong Stock Connect program, China has begun allowing foreign investment into its capital markets to an unprecedented degree. But what does this mean for institutional investment firms, and are there still…