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Last month, BNP Paribas paid a $140 million fine and began a five year probation for violating U.S. sanctions, bumping up its record penalty to nearly $9 billion for moving money through the U.S. financial system on behalf of sanctioned entities.

During the last 30 years, the financial services industry has predominantly relied on security-level identifiers (i.e., Tickers, ISINs, SEDOLs, CUSIPs, etc.) to consume, integrate, and expose content. Over that time, the industry has progressed and financial investing activities have moved beyond single asset class focused strategies. Here, we outline FactSet's response to the shift to entity-centric content architecture as a way to manage and connect complex datasets across multiple asset classes and create smart data. Download the full report to read about it!

In order to address the growing importance of data governance and management in an increasingly datadriven financial environment, a panel of data management professionals met at FIMA 2015 to diagnose common data management issues in an engaging live forum. Their expertise and case examples are the basis of the analysis contained in this report. In addition, David Newman, SVP of Enterprise Architecture and IT Strategy at Wells Fargo contributed insight on topics covered by the panel. Download the full report to read about it!

Data management has evolved and changed dramatically over the past decade, becoming more complex and strategic. This growing intricacy is reflected in the day-to-day operational, technological and workflow components of how to organize vast quantities of information relating to securities that a firm holds or may be analysing.  

Harnessing big data has become a top priority in the financial services industry. Financial services firms are trying to figure out how to leverage the benefits of big data while continuing to address regulatory compliance issues to protect sensitive data, and maintain performance, scalability, and high availability.

Asset managers have tackled pricing issues for years. But what they haven’t faced – until now – is a minefield of thinly-traded markets and unprecedented regulatory scrutiny. While the subject of pricing isn’t new, it has never been more explosive – and the old way of running processes is being put to the test.

FIMA 2014 was recognised as the industry gathering for the reference data community. Another successful year saw over 500 participants across the two days, establishing it once again as the largest meeting of reference data decision makers in Europe. Feedback from attendees tells us that they specifically rate this event to evaluate the latest practices guidance and to align the next steps in their strategy and vision.

These are just some of the companies that attended FIMA 2014 - simply fill in the form below to download the full attendee list