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Tag Archives: Guest Blog
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
Guest Contributor: Mark Ransom Day, Senior Account Executive, Marketing, Cognito Five Rules for Articulation and Advertising in a Post Dodd-Frank World In its current version, Dodd-Frank has 383,013 words. Anna Karenina has 349,736. Dodd-Frank is actually longer than one of … Continue reading
Posted in Dodd-Frank, Guest Blog
Tagged Cognito, collateral, core messaging, Dodd-Frank, Guest Blog, Mark Ransom Day
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The LEI: A Building Block for Enhanced Data and Risk Management
Guest Contributor: Marty Williams, Vice President, Reference Data Product Development, Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data Business The introduction of a standardized Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) could deliver significant benefits beyond allowing regulators to more accurately monitor systemic risk. … Continue reading
Posted in Data Management, Guest Blog, Regulation
Tagged Guest Blog, Interactive Data, lei, Marty Williams, reference data, Risk Management
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WHAT IF THE RISK DEPARTMENT REALLY LOST AN HOUR?
Guest Contributor: Marcus Cree, Vice President, Risk Solutions, SunGard’s Capital Markets Business With spring in the air, the U.S. clocks have gone forward, stealing an hour from us. Obviously it is an illusory lost hour, but it does provoke an interesting … Continue reading
Simply, The Cloud
Guest Contributor: Dan Retzer, CTO, XSP A solution built around a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the key to a solid and flexible architectural foundation. Without SOA, software providers like XSP could not inherently take advantage of THE most important disruptive … Continue reading
The Mantra of Transparency: Unified Data and Systems for the BD
Guest Contributor: David Fetter, CEO of Quadron Data Solutions Another year is drawing to a close, and when reflecting upon 2011, it’s apparent to everyone that it has been a year of ups and downs. What has 2011 brought to … Continue reading
RIAs: Moving on up – to the Cloud Part II
To read part one of this guest contribution please click here. Guest Contributor: Andrew Peddar, North American CEO of StatPro Creating a bright future Investors are anticipating growth as the shockwave of the Great Recession settles. Cloud-based technology is well-positioned to … Continue reading
RIAs: Moving on up – to the Cloud Part I
Guest Contributor: Andrew Peddar, North American CEO, StatPro Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) have long relied on one of two choices for portfolio analytics and reporting: enterprise wide technologies and services or niche technologies. While enterprise technologies are packaged with lots … Continue reading
The Role of Big Data Analytics – Living in a 2.0 World
Guest Contributer: Andrew Ettinger, Director, Sales, Greenplum Let’s face it, we live in a different world today. I am sitting here on my Mac computer, with my iPhone out, my iPad is in my briefcase, I am answering email on … Continue reading
Posted in Back-Office, Financial Technology, Guest Blog
Tagged Back-Office, Financial Technology, Guest Blog
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Meeting the Middle Office ‘Data Crunch’
Guest Contributor: Graeme Condie, Data Management & Analytics Solutions Management, DST Global Solutions Asset Managers face numerous business challenges in today’s environment of increased competitiveness, desire for greater transparency and need for regulatory vigilance. One of the areas … Continue reading
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Tagged Guest Blog, Securities Operations
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Corporate Actions: The Way Forward
Guest Contributor: Chris Kotsifas, Founder of STP Consulting Solutions, LLC In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, there’s a renewed emphasis in operational transparency and risk reduction. This has led many to look into their organizations and revisit problematic … Continue reading
