Data Management 101

A community blog about data and how to manage it

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

What is your digital persona?

At the Digital Money Forum last week, Kosta Peric of Swift mentioned a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they seek to critique data mining techniques to see how the web 'sees' you. The results are interesting, and odd. Even though I'm a journalist, you could say my name appears fairly often online, the large amounts of g...

15 March 2010 /security /regulation

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Collaboration is key - but does your data manager know?

Last Friday's afternoon chat with Enrico Camerinelli, senior analyst at Celent - Processes, People and Technology in Global Transaction Banking - talked about strategies for the development of global transaction banking departments in the midst of the credit crunch. The panel, which included representatives from HSBC, Swift, IT/2 and the Cranfield...

08 March 2010 /payments /regulation

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'New Risk Management' Needs Accurate Data

Two weeks ago I questioned what form a ‘new risk management’ would take and how far the industry is rallied around the 2010 GARP Risk theme of “Transforming Risk into a new world order”. I had hoped that the convention would reveal risk managers finally beginning to understand the vital role data management plays in helping untangle messy inter

24 February 2010 /regulation

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Expanding Risk Management....With Accurate Data

Looking at the themes for next week’s GARP conference, how can anyone be anything but rallied by this year’s bold theme, “Transforming Risk in a new world order”, and the acknowledgement that the financial crisis has highlighted the need for “an expanded and improved risk management function”. So what shape will this new and improved risk manage...

08 February 2010 /regulation

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

The long and complex road to CEP

While consolidation in the trendy CEP market is very big news - it is worth taking a step back and looking at the true market penetration for complex event processing the financial services. CEP collects related and unrelated real-time and historical data and events, business logic is then applied to those events to detect patterns and conduct anal...

05 February 2010 /regulation

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Scoop of your own data on top?

A recent FTfm article reminds me of how the shift of power between funds and investors has turned the reporting function into an ice cream shop – any flavour, any size, whenever the customer wants. But what if your customers like their toppings instead of yours? I’m talking about the client’s own data. Many investors want to add their own data int...

28 January 2010 /regulation

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Too much info: you may just have all the data you need

"This was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had." NYTimes quoting President Obama after his meeting with national security advisers about a terror plot to bring down a commercial jetliner on Christmas Day. (Jan 6th 2010) Going to the movies with friends fr...

11 January 2010 /payments /regulation

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The Failure of Risk Models

Avinash Persaud of Intelligence Capital gave the opening talk of the morning at RiskMinds (see first of set of posts from last year here) and put forward a lot of the very good ideas that he has contributed to in the recent Warwick Commission Report. Main points that Avinash made: Regulators were admirably quick in working out where past regulat...

08 December 2009 /regulation /wholesale

Gert Raeves Research Director at Adox Research Limited

Price and Prejudice and Zombies

Easily the most unusual literary success story of the year, the Jane Austen inspired mash-up novel which inspires this blog title is terrific trashy fun. If you are looking for a quirky Christmas present for any Regency pulp fiction obsessed bibliophiles in your acquaintance, you could do worse than look here. Improbably, there are quite a few in...

03 December 2009 /wholesale

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It's in the news...

I went along to the Forum on News Analytics over in Canary Wharf on Monday evening, organised by Professor Gautam Mitra from OptiRisk / Carisma at Brunel University. I guess we are in the early days of transforming news articles into quantifiable/machine-readable data so that it can be processed automatically/systematically in trading and risk m...

13 November 2009 /regulation