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Lombard Risk Management’s $4.25 million acquisition of the regulatory reporting business of banking consultancy Sofgen – announced just before Christmas – not only catapults the risk specialist into the top three providers of regulatory reporting for US domestic banks, but will also offer those banks improved risk management through the combination of both companies’ reporting products.


















New York hedge fund manager Optima Fund Management has pushed open the door to the European retail market through the use of Algorithmics’ UCITS reporting, an element of the company’s Algo Risk Reports service that supports hedge funds in meeting the demands of regulators and investors.
Following on from its recent testing procedures for the submission of liquidity risk reporting data to its online regulatory reporting system (see details


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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