Virginie’s Blog – Control

The recent woes at UBS with its own Nick Leeson/Jerome Kerviel (delete as desired) style rogue trader and this month’s MF Global bankruptcy investigation into its customer data practices have both highlighted an important aspect of data management: control. Whether it be data and system access concerns, or those related to the treatment of customer data (and funds) in the correct manner, keeping a better handle on data is in the minds of both the regulatory community and the industry at large.

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03 Nov 2011
 
Northern Trust’s Van Praagh Takes on Operations Outsourcing Role

Terri VP NTRSFollowing her move from Barings Asset Management (BAM) to Northern Trust at the start of this year, Terri Van Praagh has taken on a new role as senior vice president and head of investment operations outsourcing for the EMEA region. Prior to this role and since January, Van Praagh has been senior vice president and head of market operations for the global custodian.

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31 Oct 2011
 
SGSS Highlights Expedited Data Support for Outsourced Customer Credit Suisse Asset Management in Germany

Outsourcing picAs part of its outsourcing deal with the Germany-based asset manager, Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) migrated Credit Suisse Asset Management’s data in just six months, according to the asset servicing firm. The implementation involved moving data regarding 66 funds and around 7,000 individual positions to investment management system SimCorp Dimension.

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04 Jul 2011
 
Swift’s Halberstadt and Pobuda Elaborate on its Progress in the FX and Payments SSI Space, Reference Data Utility Plans

Joe Halberstadt SwiftIt is no secret that Swift’s 2015 plan includes a great deal more about reference data than previous strategies devised by the industry network operator (see recent commentary on which here). In February, Swift announced that it would be putting words into action in the payments and FX standing settlement instruction (SSI) space by establishing a new service in these markets, as well as launching a new payments reference data utility later this year (see the release from earlier this year here). A-Team Insight speaks to Joe Halberstadt, head of FX and derivatives markets, and Dusan Pobuda, senior product manager for SSI and global payments reference data utility at Swift, about the progress thus far.

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03 Jun 2011
 
Panellists Highlight the “Shotgun Wedding” of Data Management and Risk Management at DMRAV in NYC

The data management and risk functions of financial institutions have become subject to a “shotgun wedding of sorts”, as firms aim to tackle their underlying data quality issues in the post-crisis environment, according to panellists at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in NYC (see details of the London sister event coming up on 17 October here). Regulatory drivers and a push towards increased transparency have coerced the two functions into a close partnership across the industry as a whole, agreed speakers.

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26 May 2011
 
The Current State of Data Quality for Risk, Analytics and Valuations: Letter from Asia

Steve Engdahl GoldenSourceBy Stephen Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy for GoldenSource

The impact of data quality on critical business functions is a hot topic in data management circles today and one that I was looking forward to hear more on at the A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference that took place in New York earlier this May (see more on which and its sister event in London later this year here). Unfortunately business travel to Asia made it impossible for me to attend the conference in person. However, my trip did give me the opportunity to explore this topic in more detail from an Asia Pacific perspective. While each issue has a uniquely Asian point of view, they also underscore the fact that we’re all facing the same core set of issues regardless of the regions we operate in.

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24 May 2011
 
Dow Jones Adds Apple iPad Channel to Investment Banker Data Service

Dow Jones has added an Apple iPad app to the Dow Jones Investment Banker (DJIB) suite and says it will create apps for more tablet devices as they emerge. The app is free to download from the iPad app store, but users must be registered for DJIB.

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09 May 2011
 

 
 

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