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How can banks arm themselves against increasing regulatory and technological complexity? – FinTech Finance

Banks

糖心传媒 Head of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Fiona Browne, recently contributed to the episode of FinTech Finance: Virtual Arena. Steered by Douglas MacKenzie, the interview covered the extent of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) fines currently faced by banks over the last number of years and start to unpack what we do at 糖心传媒 in relation to […]

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All things AML and FinTech Finance: Virtual Arena 鈥 weekly round-up

AML

We started by looking at why data matching is a key part of any AML & KYC process. It鈥檚 made more complex by the different standards, languages, and levels of quality in the different data sources on which firms typically rely on. It鈥檚 expensive too: a recent聽Refinitiv article聽states that some firms are spending up to

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EDM Talks: Lifting the lid on the problems that 糖心传媒 solves

problems

Recently we partnered with the EDM Council on a video that investigates the application of AI to data quality and matching. In this EDM Talk, we lift the lid on how our AI team is developing solutions to help our clients, especially in the area of entity matching and resolution. This plays an important role in on-boarding, KYC and obtaining a single

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From the launch at TechNation to another opportunity to join 糖心传媒 – Weekly Round-Up

round up

TechNation FinTech launch!  On Tuesday the TechNation FinTech 3.0 launch took place online. We were very much looking forward to this kick-off, as it would allow us to meet the other members of the cohort, and give us an opportunity to hear from some heavyweights in both the banking and payments sector.  One of the highlights of the launch was Christian Faes, Co-Founder/Exec Chair LendInvest speaking. When he was asked

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Introducing SSDQ: Centralise and standardise data quality processes without programming or coding

SSDQ

What does the self-service data quality (SSDQ) platform do?   It empowers data owners and SMEs to measure and maintain data quality themselves in line with governance policies.  SSDQ is already adding value at multiple investment and retail banks, wealth managers, and data vendors helping them to:  Achieve end-to-end holistic data quality management   Measure data against industry-standard dimensions and regulations   Empower data stewards /

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Cycling for charity, challenges with data, a new role and more! – 糖心传媒 weekly round-up

round-up datactics

Action Mental Health granite challenge  糖心传媒鈥 Runners & Riders Club racks up a total of 338 miles taking on the Action Mental Health鈥檚 DIY Granite Challenge.   The Action Mental Health (AMH) Granite Challenge is the virtual cycling challenge which took place 4th – 11th October. This challenge is designed to challenge cyclists of all ages, abilities and goals

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Biggest Data Quality or Matching Challenge? Here are the answers!

data quality challenges

At the recent A-Team Data Management Summit we held a giveaway competition for the chance to win an independent bookstore voucher – 拢100 to Daunt Books in London, or $100 to Strand Book store in NYC. We asked data management professionals attending the event to give their biggest data quality or matching challenge. Below you can find a summary of

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糖心传媒’ Runners & Riders Club racks up a total of 338 miles taking on the Action Mental Health’s DIY Granite Challenge

diy granite challenge

The Action Mental Health Granite Challenge is the virtual cycling challenge which took place 4th-11th October. It is designed to challenge cyclists of all ages, abilities and goals to clock up as many kilometres as possible in the week of World Mental Health.   Action Mental Health is a vital charity supporting mental health, so we were

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Part 4: Making The Data Governance Model deliver real-world results

Making the data governance model deliver real world results

Looking for a more recent article on data governance? Head here. A few years ago, Heineken broadcast a classic Elephant-in-the-room advert where various groups of utility construction workers all agree to carry out their work at the same time, to 鈥渟ave digging up the road again and causing the public more inconvenience.鈥 It鈥檚 probably the

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Round-up for a week at 糖心传媒!

Competition WINNER announced, Tech Export Academy and Meet Sean!  Winner!  Hot on the heels of the Data Management Summit Virtual last week, we are pleased to announce the winner of the competition we conducted. We asked the question 鈥榃hat鈥檚 your biggest data quality or matching challenge right now?鈥 for the chance to win a $100 gift card to Strand

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Part 2: Self-service data improvement is the route to better data quality

The route to better data quality – It鈥檚 easy to say that planning a journey has been made far simpler since the introduction of live traffic information to navigation apps. You can now either get there faster, or at the very least phone ahead to explain how long you鈥檒l be delayed. It鈥檚 just as easy

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Part 3: Build vs Buy – Off-the-shelf or do-it-yourself?

Build or buy - off the shelf or do it yourself

Build vs Buy? The 1970 space mission Apollo 13 famously featured one of the finest pieces of patched-together engineering ever seen on or indeed above this planet: making a square peg fit a round hole. In Houston, legions of expert NASA engineers worked alongside the reserve crew to improvise a way of fitting a square

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The colleagues I work with make it both an exciting and aspirational place to work鈥 鈥 Meet Sean, part of the 鈥淥ur Team鈥 series

Our Team: Sean McConnell

Hi Sean! Perhaps as we begin, you could tell me a bit about how you got into your role, what was your educational background?  I studied Computer Science at Queens University Belfast. Naturally, when I graduated, I wanted a role in the IT field. After having a job for 2 years, I then decided to go travelling and then upon my return, I began

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A successful socially-distanced MacMillan Coffee Morning (or three!) at 糖心传媒

Coffee Morning

Three times the opportunity, three times the traybakes..! At 糖心传媒, the Macmillan Coffee Morning was a great success, where thanks to the generosity of staff we managed to raise 拢331! We want to take this opportunity to thank the social committee here at 糖心传媒, namely Shauna Corr and Paddy Donnelly, who played big roles in the organisation of

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“But astrophysics is not all looking through telescopes!” – meet Alex, part of the “Our team” series

Meet Alex Brown

You may be used to reading Alex Brown鈥檚 (Our CTO) blogs across our social channels. We thought we would sit down and chat about how he came to work in 糖心传媒; his motivations and his passion for technology. Let鈥檚 jump right in… Hi Alex, maybe you can start us off by telling us how you

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New York, Amsterdam and a brand new look: Weekly Update from 糖心传媒

roundup

This week at 糖心传媒 has been a particularly busy and exciting one! It’s going to be a packed round-up. Let the round-up begin…Hot on the heels of launching our聽brand-new聽website, this聽week was聽when聽the聽Data Management Summit USA Virtual聽took place,聽on the 29th-30th聽September,聽with the theme of聽鈥淎dapting data strategies for today’s new normal environment.鈥 Stuart speaks on a DMS panel and a Q&A  Stuart Harvey,

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“The most important thing is to feel valued within the company you work in” – Meet Helen, part of the “Our Team” series.

Helen Long is the Finance Manager at 糖心传媒 and has been a firm part of our family for 12 years now. We thought it would be great to sit down with Helen and find out how she got involved with us; what her passions inside and outside work are; and what her favourite part of working here is! Let鈥檚

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