Risk Management, Performance & Reporting
Optimizing performance and risk calculations: The critical role of data quality
Calculating performance indicators or risk metrics is a critical task for financial institutions. While many focus solely on calculation methods, the real challenge often lies elsewhere.
This Week: First Trust/Bloomberg/New Constructs, Cboe/Metaurus, LTX/MultiLynq, and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Hot topic: SEC climate disclosure rule divides industry
Proposal likely to flounder on First Amendment concerns, lawyers believe.
Investment management ‘one analytics view’ for credit bonds and ESG risk factors
A Chartis and MSCI research report that examines how firms must integrate ESG risk analytics with multiple other performance or risk analytics in credit bond portfolios to obtain a meaningful, quantitative and comprehensive investment view
Trade reporting challenges require data re-think
Data accuracy issues are hampering some firms’ regulatory reporting abilities. So why aren’t data professionals more involved? And how can compliance costs be turned into revenue drivers?
Finding the investment management ‘one analytics view’
This paper outlines the benefits accruing to buy-side practitioners on the back of generating a single analytics view of their risk and performance metrics across funds, regions and asset classes.
The IMD Wrap: Are server life extensions putting profits before performance?
Cloud providers are having to make more hardware available to keep pace with takeup—including older machines that under previous policies would have been retired already. But the move is proving profitable … and risky.
Industry unsure of SEC’s new short-selling transparency rule
Does the SEC’s recent 10C-1a rule provide sufficient transparency while protecting traders’ short-sale positions from a GameStop-style backlash? The data will be key.
Industry divided on whether Europe should delay FRTB
Most bankers prefer to keep to earlier start date, even though it puts continent out of sync with US.
Crypto: Too important to ignore
This WatersTechnology rapid read survey report examines the crypto finance priorities of institutional investors, how far along they are on their crypto journeys, the challenges in entering and participating in this market, and what they value most when…
BoE model risk rule may drive real-time monitoring of AI
New rule requires banks to rerun performance tests on models that recalibrate dynamically.
Integrating Pillars 1, 2 and 3: A better way to Basel IV
This Wolters Kluwer report provides actionable insights on how banks can navigate the challenges of Basel IV effectively
The buy-side burden: Capturing every document, everywhere, all at once
Ensuring that buy-side firms capture all relevant disclosures from funds—especially in the private markets—can be an onerous and costly task. Accelex is aiming to change that.
Podcast: Leveraging real-time data feeds for faster business decisions
The markets have been on a very volatile ride in 2022, which makes low-latency data more crucial to the business.
Gold standard: Are golden copies losing their luster?
The concept of a “golden copy” is well established. But what happens when buy-side firms want to differentiate themselves by launching new services, only to find themselves maintaining multiple “single” sources of data—or worse, none at all?
APAC Buy-Side Firms Embrace Alt Data and the Cloud
This paper comprises three sections: respondents’ demographics, alternative data and the cloud.
The Emir Refit Playbook
The upcoming Emir Refit regulation, set to enter the European Union’s statute books in the first half of 2024, is different in substance to the regulations preceding it, although the implications of complying with it are similar: firms will need to…
The World’s Fastest File System for Financial Services
Speed. Agility. Storage. In financial services, the need has never been greater.
High-Performance Storage for AI and ML
It’s a highly complex question with a deceptively simple answer: How do you win with artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance, computing-based analytics? Speed.
Deploy a scalable distributed file system — rapidly, easily and affordably
Eliminate the complexity, cost and delays of configuring a distributed file system from multiple components and manufacturers. Hitachi Content Software for File lets you design and deploy a leading edge file system — now.
If it ain’t broke, break it: Back-office tech reform may benefit front-office returns
Better data visibility across multiple systems could provide a driver for technological change in the world of post-trade.