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Wells Fargo Exec: Some Hedge Funds Uncomfortable With Vendors' Evaluated Prices
A valuations executive at the fund administrator told delegates at this week's Frankfurt Financial Information Summit that although pricing and valuations vendors believe they have become much more transparent, some hedge funds are still not comfortable…
Full And Fair Disclosures
When it comes into force next year, the IFRS 13 accounting standard will place significant requirements on end-users to provide new disclosures about the prices and evaluations they use, but pricing vendors are well placed to help them comply, writes…
Frankfurt Summit: Panel Cites Data Quality, IT and Client Confidence as Valuations, Pricing Challenges
Reliable data, technology, models and trust are key issues for users and providers of evaluated prices
Innovation Revs Up
Take a look beyond a list of acronym-named regulations to the innovations and reconsidered management approaches in reference data, as presented and discussed at EFIS and reported by Inside Reference Data
Getting To Grips With Semantics
Businesses in a number of industries are seeing the benefits of using semantic technology for data management. Nicholas Hamilton asks where this approach may fit in the financial services sector and what advantages firms can expect to see
Pricing & Valuations: Mitigating Risk Webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on September 11, 2012 to discuss how firms are reviewing pricing strategies due to growing pressure from regulators to mitigate risk
Infographic: Major Bank Fines in 2012
A visualization of some of the largest regulatory penalties levied this year.
Wells Fargo Targets Contracts, Compliance
Steve Listhaus, head of market data services at Wells Fargo, outlines the bank's new efforts around negotiating contracts for data services, and market data compliance.
Max Bowie: Speed Is Nothing Without Control
With the Sifma technology show upon us, vendors are showcasing their wares—often with a focus on speed and throughput. But in a regulatory environment placing greater emphasis on risk checks and compliance, firms are also expecting these solutions to…
Well-Suited: Steve Ellis Merges Wells Fargo, Wachovia IT
People think of bankers and technologists as being a bit square. Steve Ellis broke the mold, then set the pieces on fire. Wells Fargo took a chance on him, and is now reaping the rewards. By Jake Thomases with photos by Amy Fletcher
Finra Fines Sell-Side Firms for Lacking 'Adequate Supervisory Systems'
Self-regulatory body says Citi, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Wells Fargo did not have sufficient knowledge of leveraged and inverse ETFs they were selling.
With Merlin Securities Buy, Wells Fargo Gains Open-Architecture Prime Brokerage Offerings
In addition to Merlin's technology offerings, the move gives the bank its first prime brokerage.
Taming Data Management Webcast
There are two ways to address the perennial pain posed by any number of data management deficiencies: Firms can choose to do it on a case-by-case, incremental basis, or they can take the long-term and often prohibitively expensive approach and build and…