Chris Kentouris is senior international editor at Securities Technology Monitor. Chris can be reached at by email.

6 Criteria Cloud Checklist
December 7, 2011 The 'cloud' may sound like a pretty amorphous word but for asset managers. But the recent recession, market volatility and...

DTCC to Create Second Data Warehouse for Swaps
November 2, 2011 The industry utility has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to register a new repository for data on swaps that...

Risk Measurement Gets Real. And Fast.
September 7, 2011 There’s no turning back and there is technology available. It combines complex event processing – a.k.a. applying...

Taking Action on Corporate Actions
August 26, 2011 Pulling together corporate information across a range of computing platforms is not easy

Derivatives Reform Will Drive Data Management Upgrades
August 11, 2011 Data migration, risk management and front-office data marts among changes, according to TABB Group report

Outsourcing Ops, Broker Style
July 7, 2011 5 top processes financial brokers outsource to reduce risk and cost

Tackling Data Standards for Derivatives
June 24, 2011 Tech subcommittee includes members from Google, SWIFT, ISO; developing data language and governance norms

Hedge Funds Facing Massive Data Project
June 7, 2011 Outlining the registration process for SEC information gathering

SEC Fines Execs for Illegal Customer Data Transfer
April 8, 2011 Brokerage heads sent information for thousands of users to third parties

Can a Compliance System Save $1B in Commissions?
March 28, 2011 Incumbent commission management firms disagree on prowess of Web-based management offering

Five Steps to Getting Counterparty Data Right
March 23, 2011 FIMA speech, slide show outline data management foundations

Automation of Corporate Actions Goes a Long Way
March 14, 2011 While the processing of many back-office functions is now automated, corporate actions have remained mired in emails, faxes...

Advent Buys U.K. Margin Management Software Provider
March 2, 2011 Syncova Solutions' calculation programs would be included to Advent's money management offerings

Buy Side's Biggest Bets
January 20, 2011 5 top tech spending areas shared by a dozen operations executives and their software vendors

Order or Execution Management System: Why Not Both?
January 17, 2011 Historically, the differences between the two system types have been as vast as those between a Volkswagen and a racecar

Markit Buys Risk Analytics Vendor QuIC
January 13, 2011 Markit says deal enables it to meet growing enterprise risk management market needs

5 Top Data Nightmares in 2011
December 28, 2010 Executives across the globe are wrapping up reports on just what went wrong and why this year, with the key goal of avoiding...

25 Data Management Do's and Don'ts
December 22, 2010 2010 lessons rely heavily on financial regulation, risk management: Enterprise Data Management Council report

Corporate Actions Software Spending on Rise, Report Says
December 16, 2010 Aite Group: financial investment to increase $23M by 2015

Data Management in the Clean Up Spot
December 2, 2010 About half of financial firms in a recent survey are still using terminals to look-up data and process it manually, though...

FIS to Buy Capco in $292 Million Deal
October 20, 2010 In a statement, FIS says the acquisition expands its international footprint with services covering banking, capital markets,...

18,895 Errors Found in XBRL Tagging Over Two Years
October 18, 2010 That figure isn’t huge considering the 1.6 million items that had to be tagged, says XBRL US, the U.S. arm of XBRL...

Market Data’s Carte Blanche
October 5, 2010 At issue: whether U.S. exchanges can charge “market prices” for their data – i.e., whatever the market will...

Lots of Data, No Standards Equals Little Value
September 22, 2010 Financial firms still haven’t gotten their acts together when it comes to standardizing data terminology and that’s...

Basel III: Enterprise Data and Risk Management Required
September 15, 2010 Financial firms will need to adopt stronger enterprisewide data and risk management policies to comply with the latest set of...

How Ready Are You For Enterprise Data Management?
August 31, 2010 Two New York-based agencies will release the results of an online survey of fund managers, broker-dealers and universal banks...

Wanted: Chief Data Officer. Data Skills Not Necessary.
August 25, 2010 Pretty soon the U.S government will have the equivalent of a chief data officer. This will be the person who occupies the post...

Get Real Data. Go Virtual.
August 17, 2010 When you can’t find the information you actually want, virtual data may be the best answer

Tech that Could Have Caught SocGen's Rogue
August 5, 2010 Evidence analytics is a new approach to insider monitoring that looks for all sorts of behavioral anomalies

Direct Edge to Use Correlix for Monitoring Latency
July 30, 2010 Direct Edge, operator of the U.S.’ newest stock exchanges, picked a service of latency management firm Correlix to help...

In Classifying Clients, Keep Track of the Data
July 21, 2010 European regulators are putting the practices of financial firms to the test by ensuring they know how to classify and update...

DTCC Sets Stage for Global Standardization of Data
July 2, 2010 The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Thursday took two steps to establish itself as the standards-bearer for collection...

SIFMA Tech 2010: 'Cloud' for Market Data is Sunny
June 24, 2010 Middle and back office executives could make good use of market data delivered through the cloud

Don’t Let Your Operations Team Grow Up to be Traders
June 23, 2010 What you can learn from the "rogue trader" incident at Societe General, while attending the Securities Industry and Financial...

When Certifying Data is Accurate, Certify the Professionals
May 26, 2010 Data management executives handle one of the most critical aspects of the financial services industry – the information...

More Regs on the Way: Get Ready for A Lot More Ops and IT Headaches (And Pull Out Those Wallets)
May 5, 2010 The worldwide economic crisis may not be over and regulations may not be finalized on how to prevent a recurrence

Financial Firms Increase Spend on Data Integration Projects
May 5, 2010 Financial firms will increase their spending on data integration from an estimated $1.76 billion this year to almost $2...

Netik to Expand Reach to Front-Office
April 20, 2010 Netik, the New York and London based financial data management software firm, will expand its reach into the fast-paced...

Fund Operations Execs Concerned about Data Accuracy
March 25, 2010 Data integrity was the top concern of fund operations executives, according to a survey released by Confluence

Data Management Budgets on Rise But ROI Hard to Prove
March 23, 2010 Despite the merits of efficient data management in reducing operational and other risks, financial firms will only modestly...

Creating A Global Data Repository: Who Will Blink First?
February 24, 2010 The Fed wants to take on the role of systematic risk overseer in the U.S. if not the globe. And it needs data to analyze to do...

Developing Software? Be Forewarned and Forearmed
February 16, 2010 A new lawsuit filed by SFB Market Systems, a software firm specializing in options symbology, provides a glaring example of...

Bidders Lining Up For Interactive Data
February 11, 2010 Up to a dozen suitors are expected to make an initial bid to acquire Interactive Data, a supplier of sub-millisecond data for...

Firms Not Getting Their Money’s Worth Out of Data
February 10, 2010 Financial firms are spending big bucks on obtaining reference data to run their operations. But they are generally unhappy...

Sybase Expands to Real-Time Analytics With Aleri Purchase
February 5, 2010 Sybase’s acquisition of complex event processing firm Aleri boosts the database management firm’s appeal to firms...

Sybase Confirms Takeover of Aleri
February 4, 2010 Database management firm Sybase confirmed that it has agreed to acquire Aleri, a leading supplier of software for analyzing...

Sybase Expected To Announce Acquisition of Aleri
February 2, 2010 Sybase is expected within days to announce an agreement to buy Aleri, one of the leading suppliers of software that analyzes...

Bloomberg: It Can’t All Be Free
January 28, 2010 Bloomberg looks like it wants fund administrators to pay fees, if they use the data to service customers

Curbing Tax Evasion: Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
January 26, 2010 Efficient recording and management of customer data. That is what tax experts and operations executives believe will become a...

Dear CEOs: Get More Data for Risk Analysis
January 20, 2010 U.S. financial firms aren’t the only ones who need to worry about how to shore up their data management skills to comply...

Interactive Data Buys Assets of Middle East Sales Agent
January 15, 2010 Interactive Data purchased the assets of Dubai-based Telerate Systems to bolster its market share in the Middle East

Data Tsunami About to Hit Shore
December 23, 2009 As financial firms consider just how to keep their budgets lean and mean in 2010, they will be facing pretty tough challenges...

When It Comes to Pricing, There is No Such Thing as Simple
December 17, 2009 The credit crisis has been hard not just on buyers and sellers of securities, but also those who safekeep financial assets and...

Measuring Operational Risk: How the Mistakes Add Up
December 16, 2009 Among the most common operational mistakes cited by two dozen operations executives contacted by Securities Industry News last...

Follow the Data When Tracking Systemic Risk
November 3, 2009 The details of an Obama Administration financial reform bill are still being ironed out. But Wall Street operations executives...

Industry Panels Push for National Data Repository to Help Monitoring of "Systemic Risk"
August 10, 2009 The American Statistical Association and the Enterprise Data Management Council are pushing for a new U.S. federal agency to...

Reverse Logic: Small Firms Pay Data Specialists Best
July 30, 2009 Data management and financial information professionals in the U.S. and Europe who think that working in the securities...

To Reduce Delays, Firms Filter-Or Cut Down-The Data Coming In
July 24, 2009 Although low-latency--and even ultra-low latency--have become Wall Street's latest mantra, simply reducing the time it takes...

Time is Money. Make Millions From Every Millisecond
July 14, 2009 Time is quite literally money. And that money gets measured in the milliseconds, now

Like U.S., Europe Tries to Rein in Risks of OTC Derivatives
July 7, 2009 The European Commission is calling for the creation of a data warehouse and automation of key aspects of transactions to...

Volante Introduces New Pricing Model For Data Management Tools
June 24, 2009 Data management software vendor Volante Technologies is expected to announce that it’s offering customers an...

SunGard Unveils Upgrade To Fame
June 4, 2009 SunGard released a new version of its Fame data management software that allows financial firms to analyze and back test...

Northern Trust Adapts Technology to Changing Times
May 19, 2009 The client is king - While such a stance has become commonplace among asset servicing providers, it is far from easy to fulfill

SunGard Inks Deal for ICE Risk Platform
May 11, 2009 SunGard has agreed to buy a position-keeping and risk management system for commodity markets from IntercontinentalExchange