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VIDEO: Omgeo’s Freeman on the Changing Dynamics of the SSI Space

A-Team Insight managing editor Virginie O’Shea speaks to Omgeo’s executive director of industry relations Tony Freeman about the vendor’s recent research into the settlement and account instruction (SSI) space, which highlights the high number of trade fails caused by problems with SSI data. Freeman also elaborates on the changing dynamics in the SSI space caused by increased competition (see commentary on which here) and regulatory developments.

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10 Oct 2011
 
VIDEO: BT’s Pickles on a Cloud Technology Approach to Dealing with Post-Trade Infrastructure Change

image3A-Team Insight managing editor Virginie O’Shea speaks to  BT Global Banking & Financial Markets’ head of industry initiatives Chris Pickles about the changing dynamics in market infrastructure that have happened over the last few years and how they have affected the post-trade messaging space. Pickles explains the benefits of a cloud approach to this space such as the rationalisation of internal and external messaging and the generation of economies of scale.

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18 Sep 2011
 
SIX Telekurs White Paper & Recorded Webinar: Acceptable Price Variance

This webinar and white paper answers the question:
How much variance in evaluated pricing is acceptable?

Exchange-traded securities have the advantage of having a “price” reflecting the overall value investors place on future earnings, credit quality, management expertise and more. But more than half of all financial products today actually trade away from an exchange, including over-the-counter products and securities with no organized exchange for consummating day-to-day transactions. How do portfolio managers find reliable pricing information for those products? That’s where evaluated pricing comes into play.

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21 Jul 2011
 
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Data Quality Imperative Underlying Recent Risk Management and Regulatory Requirements

There seems to be a recurring refrain within a whole host of recent regulatory papers, including the MiFID Review, UCITS IV, Basel III, Solvency II or any number of UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) papers: references to accuracy, consistency, timeliness, reliability and completeness of data are present in all of them.

A-Team Insight managing editor Virginie O’Shea speaks to Irving Henry, policy director for prudential, capital and risk at the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) and Colin Rickard, business development director for Europe at DataFlux, about the data quality aspects underlying these developments.

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19 Jul 2011
 
Jeff Wootton on Using CEP to Evaluate Fast-Moving Data

Jeff Wootton, senior director of product marketing with Sybase, discusses how firms can efficiently evaluate what’s going on right now in the face of the overwhelming mountains of data constantly streaming in.

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01 Dec 2010
 
The Lowdown from FIMA 2010: Virginie O’Shea Reports from the Show Floor

This year’s FIMA saw panellists debate the importance of reference data management in an environment that is increasingly focused on data quality and timeliness as a result of intense regulatory and industry scrutiny of the financial sector. A-Team Group’s own Virginie O’Shea interviewed a number of speakers on the show floor for their views on the developments.

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23 Nov 2010
 
A-Team Group’s Virginie O’Shea on Securities Matching from the Sibos 2010 Opening Plenary

One of Swift’s biggest pushes for the securities sector as part of its new 2015 strategy is in the securities matching services space. During the Sibos 2010 opening plenary, Swift played the following video, demonstrating industry perspectives on this initiative. A-Team Group’s Virginie O’Shea elaborated on the utility versus competitive approach.

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05 Nov 2010
 

 
 

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