Managing Risk and Regulatory Changes in Financial Data

Recognized by analysts Gartner and Forrester as a data quality leader, Trillium Software provides enterprise data quality software and services to ensure that accurate, consistent, and complete information is available to drive higher productivity, decrease costs, increase revenues and meet regulatory compliance initiatives.

Trillium Software enables financial services institutions to identify and correct data defects and manage the quality of data supporting initiatives such as risk management, regulatory compliance, customer data management, data reconciliation and integration, business intelligence and information governance.

Over 900 organisations worldwide rely on Trillium Software’s suite of data profiling, cleansing, enhancement and linking solutions to improve the quality of their data. Clients include leading global brands such as Absa Capital, Barclays Bank, Chaucer Syndicates, Ford Financial, Norwich Union and Prudential UK.

Alacra provides innovative information solutions to more than 400 global financial institutions, corporations, and professional services firms. Alacra’s workflow tools aggregate, filter, and custom package mission-critical business information from 200 premium databases and a hand-curated universe of 3,000+ web-based sources, delivering user-ready results. Bespoke applications keep Alacra’s clients up-to-date on their customers, prospects, investments, competition, partners and suppliers, driving business development and streamlining operations. Alacra’s Premium content partners include ThomsonReuters, Factset, Dow Jones, Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fitch, LexisNexis, D&B and dozens of additional publishers. For more information, visit www.alacra.com.

Changing world

Are you ready for a new tomorrow?

In an industry that is surrounded by increasingly complex regulatory issues, a considerable decline in market confidence and also an increase in stakeholder expectations, it is clear that a dynamic approach to managing uncertainties, challenges and opportunities is essential.

Preparing for this new era of financial services will be challenging. But with change comes opportunity.

At Ernst & Young, our reputation is built on assembling multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to deliver a global perspective. Aligned to key industry groups, including asset management, banking and capital markets, insurance and private equity, we provide highly integrated services.
With close to 35,000 dedicated financial services professionals globally, we naturally approach issues from every angle to quickly see the broader picture. This means you get a clear perspective of your market and the options available to you.

To find out more about how we can help, please visit our website.

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At Omgeo, we are the operations experts, automating trade lifecycle events between investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks. We enable 6,500 clients and 80 technology partners in 52 countries around the world to seamlessly connect and interoperate. By automating and streamlining post-trade operations, we enable clients to accelerate the clearing and settlement of trades, and better manage and reduce their counterparty and credit risk. Our strength lies with our global community and our ability to adapt our solutions to enable clients to realize clear returns on their investment strategies, while responding to changing market and regulatory conditions. Across borders, asset classes, and trade lifecycles, Omgeo is the global standard for operational efficiency across the investment industry. Formed in 2001, Omgeo is jointly owned by the DTCC and Thomson Reuters.

SmartStream is a recognised leader in financial transaction management solutions that enables firms to overcome their post trade processing issues through increased automation.

SmartStream’s industry-leading automated match rates create more proactive, exceptions-based processes, lowering the cost-per-transaction while enabling firms to reduce operational risk, aid compliance and improve customer service levels.

As a result, more than 1,500 clients, including over 70 of the world’s top 100 banks, 8 of the top 10 asset managers, and 8 of the top 10 custodians rely on SmartStream Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions to deliver greater efficiency to their middle and back office operations.

Ab Initio Software is a general-purpose data processing platform for enterprise-scale, mission-critical applications, covering the complete range of data processing architectures from batch, to near real-time, through to request-response services. Ab Initio solves the problems of scalability, development time, performance, business rules, metadata management, and integration. Ab Initio is in production at the world’s largest companies in banking, e-commerce, telecommunications, insurance, retail, government and healthcare; running applications as diverse as web message brokers, billing systems, data warehousing, risk and compliance, marketing analytics, and data integration hubs.

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