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Enterprise Risk: The Data Management Challenge

Enterprise RiskAs elements of the global financial markets regulatory puzzle are slowly pieced together, the case for enterprise risk emerging in 2011 as the long-awaited ‘killer app’ for enterprise data management is growing.

Market practitioners everywhere are wringing their hands at the prospect of different and varying regulatory mandates to maintain a comprehensive, enterprisewide view of their risk exposures. What’s worrying them is the realisation of the complexity of the task at hand. Different regulatory regimes will require different risk reporting practices, often drawing upon different datasets, compiled according to different time horizons and delivered to a wide range of consumers, each with his or her own specific requirements.

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25 Feb 2011
 
OTC Valuations Research Report

OTC Valuations: Pricing Assets in the Post Credit Crunch World

OTC Valuations ReportA-Team’s OTC Valuations research report is the industry’s only guide to the complex business of valuing assets.

The industry is reaching a perfect storm of circumstances that are ensuring valuations become an essential part of every financial institution’s plans and more importantly, budgets! The scale of the credit crunch, the resultant regulatory scrutiny being focused on financial institutions, and their renewed focus on proactive risk management, are all coming at a time when OTC instruments have become ever more complex and therefore more difficult to price.

Find out about the pros and cons of valuation methods, how decision-makers across financial institutions are handling this challenging area, and what the data vendors strengths and weaknesses are in their offerings.

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05 Sep 2008
 
Software Providers: Working with Reference Data

Sponsored by FT Interactive Data, Reuters, Telekurs Financial

The only guide to software interfaces to the major sources of reference data.

  • Software Providers: Working with Reference Data
  • Published Date: February 1, 2004
  • Report Size: 252 pages, A4 bound hard copy
  • Number of Software Providers: 99 (see our table of contents for full list)
  • Major Data Vendors Covered: Bloomberg, Exchange Data International, FT Interactive Data, Reuters, Standard & Poor’s, Telekurs Financial
  • Operational Categories (11): Portfolio Management, Performance Measurement, Investment Accounting, Risk Management, Risk Analytics, Securities Lending, Corporate Actions Processing, Order Management, Data Management, Compliance, Regulatory Reporting
  • Price: £895. For software providers that participated in the questionnaire, we are offering a discount of 30% off the list price as a sign of our appreciation.
  • We are offering a free 31-page information pack containing information from the report including the report introduction, market overview, data integration overview, sample software provider factfiles and sample tables from our extensive cross-reference section. It also includes a bonus chart from the report illustrating the percentage of interfaces by data vendor. You can register to receive this information pack below…

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    01 Feb 2004
     
    New Research Sheds Light on Securities Admin Data Business

    After years of life in the backwater, the middle- and back-office data business is now becoming as dynamic as the front-office data business was in its heyday of the 1980s. According to A-Team Consulting’s latest report – Securities Administration Data: The Essential Piece of the STP Puzzle – the business is now worth half a billion dollars and is growing at a pace.

    The drive towards Straight Through Processing (STP) and T+1, as well as many upcoming regulatory changes, has cast light onto the crucial processes in the mid- to back-office space, and data is an essential piece of the puzzle.

    The business of providing what is termed ‘securities administration data’ to this area is by no means small. According to a major new research paper released this week by A-Team Consulting, publishers of this publication, the size of the market for providing this data totals $545.59 million (£373.69 million) in revenues. And this is expected to grow.

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    01 Jun 2002
     

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