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People Moves: ASX, Northern Trust, MSCI, Asifma, and more
A look at some of the key people moves from this week, including Jonathan Cross (pictured), who joins LiquidityBook as general manager for EMEA.
Waters USA 2015 C-Level Panel: For Bigger Firms, Time to Make 'Real Bets' as Disintermediation Looms
Senior technologists from the buy side and sell side opened Waters USA with fresh urgency about both cost reduction and disintermediation.
Asia-Pacific Executives See Innovation Returning to Data Technology
With regulatory requirements mostly addressed, firms' operations executives focusing on 'non-traditional players'
EFIS 2015: Automation Key, But People Trump Tech for Governance
Processes remain important for implementing data governance, but it's human beings who set and implement them.
Is Wall Street Innovating Fast Enough?
Panelists at NATAS 2015 talk about how quickly the capital markets are willing to adopt innovative technology.
RBS Executive Chairman of CIB to Leave Firm
Announcement of Rory Cullinan's exit comes shortly after promotion.
Operational Risk Groups Tackle Data Governance as Regulations Rise
Panel at OpRisk North America discusses how regulations like Basel have forced banks to take another look at their approach to data.
Triffitt Joins Tullett Prebon in Risk Role
Broker and data provider hires Giles Triffitt as chief risk officer
RBS Invests in Fidessa F&O Trading Platform
Bank seeks to expand execution capabilities for global derivatives business.
Waters USA 2014: Revisiting the Kill Switch Debate
Are kill switches efficient, or more trouble than they're worth?
Risk Data Aggregation Begins With Division, Executives Say
Panelists Advocate Ownership Interest in Specific Pieces of Information
Major Banks Fined Billions for FX Market Abuse
Tier-one firms collectively penalized in joint regulatory action.
KYC: Know Your Choices
Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, hardly a bank’s most value-added function, have become a popular topic among operations, compliance, and reference data professionals, with a growing consensus that KYC checks can be done cheaper and more…
RBS Adopts Single-Platform Transaction Messaging for Corporates
Royal Bank of Scotland will now support Swift's Corporate Access (SCA) members using the MT798 messaging standard for corporate-to-bank trade transactions.
EFIS 2014: Data Sophistication, Volumes Drive Users to Virtual Tech
To get the most out of increasingly sophisticated and voluminous datasets, firms must adopt a flexible approach to investing in technology infrastructure, according to panelists at this week's European Financial Information Summit.
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.
Facing Up to the New Regulatory World
The BCBS 239 risk data aggregation principles, CCAR and FDSF stress tests, and COREP and FINREP reporting frameworks are some of the most significant new measures developed by regulators and are having a major impact on data management, writes Nicholas…
Squeeze on Cost Changes Technology’s Role
While the pressures of cuts and budget reductions affect all areas of a firm, the technology function is experiencing a change in how it operates and the level of importance it’s given as a direct result. That was the message from panelists at the Asia…
Data Management Demands of Stress Tests and Standards ─ Webcast
On June 24, Inside Reference Data hosted a webcast about the changes firms must make to comply with the BCBS 239 risk data aggregation and reporting principles, the CCAR and FDSF stress testing programs and the COREP and FINREP reporting frameworks
NAFIS 2014 Live: Regulatory Landscape Challenges
Inside Reference Data editor Michael Shashoua reported live via Twitter on the first panel in the reference data stream of the North American Financial Information Summit on May 21
Trade Identifier Tangle
Unique trade identifiers have quickly emerged as the most complicated element of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation’s trade reporting requirements, which came into effect on February 12. Nicholas Hamilton finds out why using the new identifier…