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Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Bloomberg's global identifiers for all asset classes are now available for free. A move that will be applauded by most standards and identifier evangelists. However, as most veterans of the standards rows know - politics plays a far greater role and can overshadow any data management benefits. Bloomberg may be aiming this at the Cusip Service Burea...
04 November 2009
Retired Member
The American Securitization Forum’s (ASF) work to enable the tracking of individual US mortgages is just one example of the finance world’s renewed faith in fact. This in turn is paving the way for a new ‘mark-to-data’ standard. Toxic assets were originally decoupled from reality and marked-to-models because the industry assumed that there was
26 October 2009 /regulation
What is Integrated Data Management?... At a seminar a week or so back, I was asked the somewhat academic question was "What is Integrated Data Management?". Certainly everyone seemed convinced that there would be less "Enterprise Data Management" (EDM) projects in future, given the expense, scope and scale of such projects. The...
22 October 2009 /regulation /wholesale
I managed to catch some of the first day on Thursday of the "Pricing Model Validation: Mitigating Model Risk" conference. I thought it would be worthwhile going along since firstly the past 12-18 months have made model risk very topical both from the perspective of some of the failings in the use of certain complex derivative pricing mod...
20 September 2009 /regulation /wholesale
Gert Raeves Research Director at Adox Research Limited
Two widely-accepted facts: valuation processes sit in the front office, reporting sits in the back. But what's in the middle? Often, it's been a chasm where the basic details on how/when/why an asset or portfolio was priced disappear, never to be found - a problem when the regulators knock on the door. Demand for independent price verification (IPV...
09 September 2009 /wholesale
...an article I did a couple of years back for Wilmott magazine - might present some useful background to FpML even if the thoughts are now a little out of date - you may also think it sad (to say the least!) but it was good fun putting together the Lego OTC derivative image...
29 July 2009 /regulation
...I am not surprised by the results of the survey given the current hype, but it is interesting to see that some are trying out a few financial things that seem to work well in the "cloud". And I thought Amazon sold books...
21 July 2009 /regulation
...I am very concerned that I have previously missed an important requirement for data management solutions - a heavweight risk judging by this great discussion on one of the Microsoft forums.
17 July 2009
The US justice department's investigation of the CDS market is probably more a reflection of the changing political attitudes surrounding credit derivatives rather than a discovery of criminal behaviour as a result of months of financial forensics. When CDSs were the closest thing to liquid gold in the financial markets two years ago (remember thos...
14 July 2009
Great event organised by PRMIA and IAFE last night at Goldman's London offices with a long title: "A Little Thought Goes A Long Way and Lessons for Risk Management from the Current Crisis". The event was moderated by Giovanni Bellossi of FGS Capital, and featured speaking slots by Paul Wilmott and David Rowe of Sungard. Here are my n...
03 July 2009 /regulation /wholesale
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