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Data Management 101

A community blog about data and how to manage it

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When Big Data is not Big Understanding

Good article from Tim Harford (he of the enjoyable "Undercover Economist" books) in the FT last week called "Big data: are we making a big mistake". Tim injects some healthy realism into the hype of Big Data without dismissing its importance and potential benefits. The article talks about the four claims often made when talking...

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PRMIA on Securities Financing and Money Market Funds

I went along to this PRMIA event on Thursday evening hosted by Credit Suisse and sponsored by Acacia Capital. Viktoria Baklanova introduced the panel with Joseph Tenaga as MC for the panel and very quickly got a plug in for her about to be released book written with Joe on money market funds. For those of us who don't know so much about money mar...

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Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo

FATCA - a continuous data management process

The FATCA regulations have been widely tipped to be arriving very soon. However, multiple date changes so far for final FATCA regulations have created a huge amount of uncertainty in the market, which has contributed to making it increasingly difficult for financial institutions to map out product/project timeframes. Nevertheless, even in the abse...

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FATCA solved with spreadsheets: Regulatory Class A offence?

The FATCA introduction date (1st January 2013) is looming large and focusing the attention of financial institutions on what needs to be done. From my conversations with several financial institutions over the last few weeks, it’s clear that they are busy analysing the IGA or ‘full-fat’ FATCA agreements (depending on their location) and trying to ...

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Optimising Fund Pricing Operations

With reference to the ‘Unlocking Transformational Efficiency in Fund Operations’ posting on the Tabb Forum, Unit Pricing is a prime example of a function firms should invest in for continuous improvement. Conflicting business drivers of cost reduction and seamless capacity for growth have initiated a ‘back to core’ focus amongst many firms. Incre...

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Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo

The FATCA Automation Challenge

As we near summer’s end, many of us will be experiencing that old familiar “back to school” feeling, as we refocus our thoughts and plans towards the forthcoming term. In financial services, the focus will be very much on the imminent finalisation and arrival of new regulations – particularly FATCA. It’s true to say that most foreign financial ins...

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Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo

LEI... the silver bullet to truly cleansed legal entity data

The introduction of the proposed Standard Legal Identifier (LEI) is a golden opportunity for many financial institutions to enhance and improve overall client data management and achieve the coveted cleansed legal entity data repository. The ability to assign a single, unique identifier to each and every legal entity - that can be shared both with...

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Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo

Using Client Onboarding to Improve Data Integrity

Client data and reference data management are topics that are very much in the spotlight at the moment as global regulators move to introduce new legal requirements and more stringent standards (such as Legal Entity Identifier) to bring about greater data governance and improve the overall quality and integrity of client data. However, with so ma...

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Marc Murphy

Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo

Using client onboarding to protect global reference data

The world of client onboarding is bracing itself for a raft of new regulations that will have a significant impact on global reference data and associated data quality for risk management and compliance. Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) regulation aside, many of the new emerging regulations - such as FATCA, EMIR, MifID II, Dodd-Frank and the Volcker ...

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People, Payments and Cars in the US of A

I have had a busy summer as having moved to the New York area with my family. Whilst we had to do a lot of preparation with going to the US embassy etc for visas, the move finally became "real" for me when all of the furniture in our house was removed for shipping to the US, and we ended up effectively camping in our own home for a few w...

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