By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services
UniCredit Global Information Systems (UGIS), the IT company within Italian financial institution UniCredit Group, is building out a grid computing solution supplied by Platform Computing with a view to optimising application performance and reducing costs through better use of installed hardware.
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Increasing regulation and reporting requirements are driving demand for improved risk data management, but few financial firms feel they have risk data under control. That was the conclusion of last week’s A-Team webinar on managing risk in a siloed environment.
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This week sees the release of an industry briefing we prepared for Sybase entitled ‘Managing Risk Data in the Siloed Enterprise’. I’ll be presenting the key findings at an event in London on Tuesday, where I’ll be joined by a group of risk managers and data architects – as well as Sybase’s Stuart Grant, IDC Financial Insights’ Matt Clay and Deloitte’s Julian Leake – to talk about what’s emerging as our industry’s thorniest problem: how to extract data required to meet the reporting needs of senior management and regulators from the “spaghetti crow’s nest” of data repositories and plumbing connections that is today’s financial markets enterprise.
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