Andrew’s Blog – It’s All About Risk (Data)

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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24 Mar 2012
 
Lombard Risk Management Plans Integration of Sofgen Regulatory Reporting

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.

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10 Jan 2012
 
Algorithmics and Viteos Detail Benefits of Collaboration on Algo Risk Reports

Algorithmics has named Viteos as the first fund administrator to sign up for its hosted hedge fund reporting product, Algo Risk Reports. The deal is expected to fill a gap in Viteos’ post-trade fund services, provide Algorithmics with an up selling opportunity and forge a relationship that could deliver collaborative solutions.

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16 Dec 2011
 
Optima Fund Management Enters Europe with Algorithmics’ Risk Reports

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.

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01 Dec 2011
 
UK FSA Moves from Spreadsheets to XML Submissions for Liquidity Risk Reporting

Following on from its recent testing procedures for the submission of liquidity risk reporting data to its online regulatory reporting system (see details here), the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has indicated that rather than accepting spreadsheets for all data as first planned, firms will need to prepare XML submissions. The regulator notes that the manual online or offline keying of data items, especially those required in the FSA047 reports, will be “impractical for all but the simplest set of liquidity assets and liabilities”.

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06 May 2010
 

 
 

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