Opinion
Optimal Integration: Adding Reference Data Utilities to Your Data Management Workflow
Adam Cottingham outlines the key steps to integrating a reference data utility to optimize your data management strategy
Third Time’s the Charm?
Can the SPReD reference data utility succeed where others before it have floundered?
When Zombie Aerostats (or IT Projects) Attack!
What can buy-side technologists learn from a runaway blimp?
Anthony Malakian: The Swimmers in the Lake
As data lakes gain traction on Wall Street, Anthony says that skilled programmers with knowledge of big data analysis and cleansing will become increasingly valuable.
Tim Bourgaize Murray: A Heady Debate at the Intersection of Bitcoin and Blockchain
Tim reflects on the state of conversation around the not-so-new distributed ledgers.
Michael Shashoua: Why Quality Should Be Job One
Ensuring adherence to certain data quality standards has become the prerequisite for information, including know-your-customer data and evaluated pricing. Michael explains the foundations being built.
The EDM/MDM Challenge
Master data management could fit together with enterprise data management to shore up the weaknesses of that approach
SEF Situation: As MiFID II Looms, Harmonization Necessary
Dan DeFrancesco introduces himself and talks about the impending MiFID II deadline and what kind of impact it will have on SEFs.
November 2015: How to Eat an Elephant
Victor says that as data continues to dominate the headlines in the capital markets, data management is a huge challenge that needs to be addressed.
Max Bowie: Strategic Data Assets Need Solid Governance Foundations
As data and the demands made upon it become more complex and integral to firms’ core business functions, Max argues that their data governance processes must become stronger and more structured.
MiFIR Casts Ominous Shadow on European Horizon
MiFID II and MiFIR will subject investment firms to more stringent trade reporting requirements. Brian Collings outlines the impact.
Data Management and Governance Seeing Processing Transformations
New platforms and approaches in evidence, for regulatory compliance and trading operations support
Opening Cross: Beyond Evaluations, Will Buyout Put Interactive Data on ICE?
If ICE is most interested in IDC's evaluated pricing business, what happens to the rest of the data vendor?
The Internet of Things and How to Manage Data ... The Challenge Looms
Data lakes may help to tackle the IoT challenge.
Should Major Buy Sides Slim Down?
In a long-anticipated move, Credit Suisse was the latest investment bank to announce major cutbacks this week. Tim ponders whether certain fund management giants — especially running mutual funds — should be thinking the same way.
Opening Cross: ‘Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads’
Even with the best tools, predicting the future can still be hit-or-miss.
IRD's Editor Recaps Sibos
Surprises abounded concerning ISO 20022 messaging, KYC and the LEI
Requiem For Sibos
Annual financial messaging and standards conference yielded unexpected turns on key topics like ISO 20022, KYC and instrument identifiers
Opening Cross: It’s Not What You’ve Got, It’s the Way that You Use It
Storing data isn't the same thing as managing or governing data.
Divorcing Bitcoin From Blockchain
Anthony says first we need to make clear, once and for all, that 'bitcoin' and 'blockchain' are not used interchangeably.
What Price Paradise?
Capital markets firms must move in an enterprise-wide risk management direction.
Everybody's a Data Storage Company Now
Reflecting on Google's Symphony Stake, Dell's EMC gambit.
IRD's Editor on Data Management Milestones
October issue stories note meaning of recently achieved industry milestones
Control and Automation
Ownership of data seen as large factor in achieving data quality