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Rise of the CDO

Over the past year, the ranks of chief data officers at major financial services firms have been increasing. Michael Shashoua examines why and what this means for data management

Getting a Grip On The Investment Book of Record

Accurate start-of-day positions are essential for the successful operation of the front office, but are not always immediately available. Nicholas Hamilton discovers how an investment book of record can be used to ensure portfolio managers and traders…

Trans-Atlantic Regulatory Storms

Features in the upcoming March issue of Inside Reference Data identify continuing conflicts over identifier and tax regulations and standards, describing how these divert attention from data management improvement possibilities

Taxing Times

Decisions by France and Italy to introduce taxes on financial transactions have created new challenges for data managers who must identify all instruments that are affected. As more European countries plan to roll out similar taxes, firms will have to…

Communicate and Aggregate

As regulations and reduced budgets add to existing challenges, data professionals point to standards and shared services as the best way to improve risk management and achieve straight-through processing, writes Nicholas Hamilton

Laying Compliance Foundations

With regulatory change looming large over the financial industry, Nicholas Hamilton finds out how extensible systems, best practices and good communication are helping firms to manage the uncertainty of evolving requirements and deadlines

Does One Data Silo Fit All?

Centralization of data across silos has moved to the forefront of risk management efforts in financial services. Michael Shashoua explores the parts data timeliness, transparency and standards are playing in organizing and centralizing data

A Down-to-Earth View Of the Cloud

Speakers at an Inside Reference Data webcast on October 2, 2012 highlighted the many benefits of cloud technology, but also emphasized a number of areas of concern that vendors are focused on overcoming, writes Nicholas Hamilton

Reference Data In The Cloud Webcast

During an Inside Reference Data webinar on October 2, industry experts explained how cloud technology can benefit the management of reference data and outlined challenges that need to be overcome before the technology is more widely adopted

Michael Shashoua: Data-Handling Storms

At the recent Toronto Financial Information Summit, participants considered whether analytics, visualization, or management and governance techniques deserve the most attention as the industry seeks to comply with new regulation and standards. Michael…

Responsible Parties

Most industry participants agree data management should be the responsibility of a specific business unit, but there are differing views about which department is most appropriate. Nicholas Hamilton explores the options and the factors end-user firms…

Questioning the Golden Standard

For pricing and reference data, as well as corporate actions, firms are now considering choices between single golden copy data and data reconciled from multiple sources. Michael Shashoua hears arguments for each

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