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Putting a price on your head (of data): The ROI of a CDO
The chief data officer has become recognized as a key role in a financial firm’s ability to manage its data assets, and reduce costs and risk. So why is it also so notoriously short-lived?
This Week: SocGen, Bloomberg, Fenergo, DTCC, Franklin Templeton & more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Where have all the blockchain startups gone?
Building a startup is hard. Building a blockchain startup is harder. More than 10 current and former financial blockchain builders and users detail their experiences of trying to cut their teeth on a once-darling tech, and the lessons they’re still learning from it.
Scotiabank Turns to Cloud GPUs for Risk Calculations
The Canadian bank has significantly improved the time it takes to run XVA calculations, and has big plans to further expand its XVA cloud GPU program.
OTPP Taps Ord for Enterprise Data
ORd brings more than 25 years in data management and technology engineering to the role overseeing the pension fund's enterprise data operations.
TOFIS Panel on Machine Learning, AI: ‘Try Everything, Kill What Doesn’t Work’
Panelists at the recent Toronto Financial Information Summit outline the key opportunities and challenges for machine learning and artificial intelligence in the financial markets.
Plumbing the Depths of Unstructured Data
Turning to organizing measures like collaboration, ‘microdata’ and application of standards can help manage a deep source of information.
Golden Copy: Compatibility and Collaboration Become Ever-Present
Working with data, whether for compliance, following standards or performing analysis, relies on a common approach
Working To Reconcile Data Management Standards
Firms addressing data systems customized based on jurisdictional rules, along with varied business practices
Getting All Hands on Deck
The path for the legal entity identifier to reach its administrator’s goal of 1.5 million registrations must be paved collaboratively with the industry that carries out the work of registering. Michael sees GLEIF, the administering foundation, as gaining…
Golden Copy: The Eminence of Governance
The importance of data governance is gaining recognition, making collaboration and leadership more important -- and more challenging
The Emerging Functions of Data Governance
Effective plans require coordinating vendor management, ownership, sourcing and proactive actions
Scotiabank's Zerbs: Biggest Legacy Pain in Middle Tier
Michael Zerbs, Scotiabank's co-head of information technology, discusses how to tackle what he describes as a Swiss Army Knife.
Communication Key to Regulatory Influence, Gaining Better Support from Rule Makers
Opening the lines of communication is the answer to questions around effecting regulatory evolution and getting regulatory aid.
Scotiabank Invests $2.3 Million to Create Digital Banking Lab at Ivey Business School
Brian Porter, president and CEO of Scotiabank, makes announcement during keynote address at university.
Adventures in Analytics: Firms Push for Better Ways to Look at Unstructured Data
One of the hottest trends in the industry is one that's been around for a while: analytics.
Scotiabank Eyes Analytics in Partnership with Queen's University
The Toronto-based bank will spend over $1.5 million to create the Scotiabank Centre for Customer Analytics at Smith School of Business at Queen's University.
Business, Technology a Smart Marriage at Innovation Centers
Dan looks at the wave of innovation labs popping up across the industry and points to one example as a great combination of technology and business.
Scotiabank Names Former CEO of BBVA Bancomer a Strategic Advisor for Global Digital Banking
Ignacio ‘Nacho' Deschamps talks with Dan DeFrancesco about his new role aimed at helping the Canadian bank with its digital transformation.
Reference Data Utilities special report
Pursuing the ideal reference data utility: Best responses to business drivers and management complexities
Virtual Roundtable: Utilities: The Shape of Things to Come?
Six panelists discuss the future of utilities such as SPReD for reference data.
Data Governance special report
An Inside Reference Data special report covering aspects of data governance, including EDM and MDM methods.
The EDM/MDM Challenge
Master data management could fit together with enterprise data management to shore up the weaknesses of that approach
Measurement As Blueprint
Getting the front office more involved in data governance begins with creating value for customers