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Quest For Data Quality
Pursuing data quality requires consideration of big data, data tools and resources, error correction and getting various interests to work together. Recent Inside Reference Data stories explore all these factors.
New Approaches to Corporate Actions
In a July 8 webcast, four industry experts analyzed the approaches firms should take to capture and process the data they need about corporate action events and fully understand the impact of these events
Tep Joins Element 22 As Partner
Methea Tep, most recently a managed services executive at SmartStream, joins the advisory company as a partner
Reference Data Technology special report
July 2014 -- sponsored by Eagle Investment Systems and SmartStream
New Approaches to Sourcing, Managing Corporate Actions Data -- Webcast
On July 8, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about how financial firms can make the sourcing and processing of corporate actions data more efficient and effective by adopting new approaches, such as the use of a data utility
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Sell-Side Reconciliation Platform — SmartStream
SmartStream has a motto: Reconciliations is more than just matching. While the matching process is no doubt vital, true reconciliation requires seeing an order throughout the lifecycle of a trade through to resolution, says Tim Martin, product manager of…
SEI Selects SmartStream for Reconciliations
Fund administrator SEI has selected SmartStream for a joint project that will create a single reconciliations utility within the firm.
Virtues of Consistency
Philosophers and authors may dismiss consistency as an overrated refuge for unimaginative minds, but when it comes to industrial strength data quality efforts, it proves to be a necessity.
Wolters Kluwer Updates Reporting Capabilities for Austrian Requirements
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has used the software of the Svenson business it acquired last year to make updates necessitated by changes to Austrian reporting requirements
Quality's Governing Principles
Data governance efforts, in early stages for many firms, require navigation of the divide between business and IT units, as well as cost, data quality and value concerns. Michael Shashoua reports on a discussion held during a March 6 webcast
SmartStream Expands Hong Kong Office, Hires Murphy
London-based SmartStream Technologies, a financial transaction management vendor, plans to expand its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region and has appointed Steve Murphy as regional manager for Hong Kong.
The data governance culture -- webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on March 6, 2014 to discuss how financial trading firms are managing data governance considerations in light of increased management focus.
Von Rahden to Head Up SmartStream's Frankfurt Operation
London-based SmartStream Technologies has appointed Marcus von Rahden to manage the increased demand in Germany for the vendor’s back-office processing solutions and data management services.
Von Rahden to Head Up SmartStream's Frankfurt Operation
London-based SmartStream Technologies has appointed Marcus von Rahden to manage the increased demand in Germany for the vendor’s back-office processing solutions and data management services.
How Many Utilities Does the Industry Need?
The industry will not see the full benefits of the utility model if it becomes spread thinly across a multitude of rival offerings
Broadridge IM Business Boosts Ref Data Expertise with SmartStream, Paladyne Hires
Former SmartStream exec Lou Longhi and former Paladyne MD Jonathan Cross have joined Broadridge's recently created Investment Management business, where they report to its president, Bennett Egeth
SmartStream Tackles Intraday Liquidity Management
The software vendor has upgraded its Transaction Lifecycle Management Cash and Liquidity Management product by enabling users to monitor, manage and report on their intraday liquidity positions
Swift Chooses SmartStream for Calendar Data
Swift has chosen to work with SmartStream partly because the software and managed services vendor is itself a user of calendar data
Utility Models: SmartStream Discusses Reconciliations
Dr. Darryl Twiggs, head of product at SmartStream Technologies, discusses the changing role of reconciliations as a process, and how new technologies are affecting its evolution within the back-office environment. Interview by James Rundle
Euroclear's Groot on Data Utilities
Martijn Groot of post-trade services vendor Euroclear explains how data utilities can help financial firms reduce costs and improve data quality
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Best Buy-Side Reconciliation Platform—SmartStream Technologies
This is the fourth year that the best reconciliation platform or service category has been included in the Buy-Side Technology Awards, and for the fourth straight year, SmartStream has taken home the award. The London-based vendor’s success can be…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2013: Tim Martin, SmartStream
Tim Martin, product manager at SmartStream Technologies, talks to Waters at the 2013 Buy-Side Technology Awards in London.
Opening Cross: When You Look East, Look Up and Look Out
Regulation dominated the agenda at last week's Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference. But is the region ready for the data management implications of new global and regional requirements?
Panel: Grasp Opportunities of Regulatory Complexities
The raft of current and upcoming regulations is creating opportunities as well as challenges for trading and investment firms in the Asia-Pacific region, though many outside of the largest firms are still not prepared for the data complexities and…