Increasing efficiency in sell-side reference data management

Building a reliable and efficient data workflow fit for a complex world

More than half of tier 2 & 3 banks have an inefficient derivatives reference data management workflow, a study by FOW and Acuiti.io has found.

The study, which is released in a whitepaper entitled Increasing Efficiency in Sell-side Reference Data Management, found that 53% of respondents from mid-sized banks reported their derivatives reference data workflows to be inefficient. This compared with 19% of tier 1 banks and 29% of smaller sell-side entities.

The report surveyed senior executives managing reference data across the sell-side. It seeks to identify the major challenges firms face in processing reference data and explore which data initiatives have the biggest impact on the efficiency of data workflows.

Other core findings in the report were (Download the full report):

Golden Source

Using a “golden source” of data across the front, middle and back office had the biggest impact on the efficiency of data workflow, significantly more than how data was processed and structured across an organisation


Data Errors

49% of respondents reported that data errors frequently cause mismatched trades within their organisation


Data Fragmentation

79% of respondents said that data fragmentation in their organisation made integration of new applications a challenge


Robotic Process Automation

27% of respondents used Robotic Process Automation or Chatbots in their post-trade operations


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