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Content posted in December 2013
The Second Coming of the Reference Data Utility
Commentary  |  12/24/2013  | 
Five years after the financial crisis, the Global Legal Entity Identification System initiative, has renewed interest in solving the reference data issue, long preventing efficiency in the financial supply chain.
Connecting the Spine to the Brain: DTCC Limit Notifications
Commentary  |  12/20/2013  | 
To improve risk controls, different systems across the industry need to start working together.
Scrooge Denied
Commentary  |  12/18/2013  | 
A strong U.S. unemployment report ushered in an early Santa Claus rally, erasing some earlier losses in November.
How CIOs And CMOs Can Be Better Partners
Commentary  |  12/18/2013  | 
CIOs can do a better job of collaborating with CMOs in three areas: people, process, and technology.
Volcker on the Mind, But Will it Deliver?
Commentary  |  12/18/2013  | 
Risk-based metrics are at the core of Volcker Rule compliance. But will firms be able to adequately evaluate risk?
Why Market Risk Systems Are Vital to Volcker Rule Compliance
Commentary  |  12/16/2013  | 
The race is on to reconfigure or implement ongoing position management capabilities, specifically as it relates to extraneous agency positions, writes Daniel Parker of SunGard's capital market business in the second part of his series on the Volcker Rule.
In God We Trust: All Others Bring Data
Commentary  |  12/16/2013  | 
The way FX benchmarks are set and how FX trading is monitored is about to fundamentally change.
OpenStack in Financial Services: What Can You Do With It?
Commentary  |  12/13/2013  | 
OpenStack adoption is growing and there are practical uses in the financial services space that have already been deployed.
Enhanced Automation is Key for Banks Under the Final Volcker Rule
Commentary  |  12/12/2013  | 
Adherence to a well-aligned exposure analysis system that continuously monitors residual positions (and portfolios) is necessary to remain compliant with the Volcker rule, writes Daniel Parker of SunGard's capital markets business.
Trading Marketplaces: A Sea Of Changes
Commentary  |  12/12/2013  | 
New regulations are driving fluid changes in most financial markets. Expect these changes to keep coming for the foreseeable future.
Current Analytical Software Constrains Big Data Solutions in the Financial Industry
Commentary  |  12/11/2013  | 
What is needed is a new software paradigm that enables analytics to just work and work fast—without having to move the data or worry about size, writes Bill Kantor of Paradigm4.
Post-Trade Finally Gets Its Close-Up
Commentary  |  12/9/2013  | 
Once a back-office function, the post-trade space is now paramount to the success of market participants, infrastructure players and regulators alike.
Banks Are Glorified Dry Cleaners
Commentary  |  12/9/2013  | 
The defining quality of the DevOps movement can challenge the default division of labor.
The Domino Effect on Your Firm’s Compliance Program
Commentary  |  12/4/2013  | 
Without a holistic impact analysis and end-to-end compliance program, financial institutions can face a negative domino effect — with just one discrepancy a series of errors and issues can follow.
Making Sense of the Multi-Flavors of XBRL
Commentary  |  12/4/2013  | 
XBRL will be the first step toward the semantic Web, where the exchange and analysis of financial information will not require any manual intervention.
Where are the Technologists’ Voices in Global Financial Reform?
Commentary  |  12/4/2013  | 
In an attempt to fix the plumbing of the global financial markets under Dodd Frank with a unique identification code for swaps and counterparties, technology has been an afterthought, writes Allan Grody, President of Financial InterGroup Holdings LLC.


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