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The FIMA 2011 advisory board as well as many of the participants of this premier meeting for the most senior data management professionals have requested to hear the views and opinions of the community leaders on a number of issues surrounding financial information management. We interviewed some of the most prominent data management professionals and are pleased to share their answers with you.

Reference data management: Claudia Marcusson

Interview with Claudia Marcusson, Global MDVM Transformation Team Lead, Market Data Vendor Management (MDVM) EMEA, ING Investment Management

"Every vendor has their own pricing model which makes the integration of 3rd party vendors quite complex. At ING Investment Management we ask the vendors to explain their pricing structure in as much detail as possible because we need to be flexible due to the changing environment and data requests."

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Interview with Lisa Sully, Global Head of Data Management, HSBC Asset Management

"Industry standards for all instrument data attributes and a truly unique global instrument identifier covering all asset classes have been discussed over many years but unfortunately we are no closer to fully implementing anything."

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Chris Beevor, Regional Head EMEA - Client Onboarding, UBS Investment Bank

"The future will be driven by regulatory requirements and cost. The regulatory requirements are going to make the processes more detailed and less generic, with the business looking to reduce the cost but increase the quality of data. Centralisation and access to data is going to be critical with the ability to amend data once a key cost driver."

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Interview with Elena L. Christopher, Vice President, Financial Services, Mobius Services

"The reality is that most large financial services firms outsource something today – some element of software development is quite typical as well as back office business processes. For data management-related initiatives, decision makers are often worried about giving up too much control over data that is critical to their respective firm."

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Interview with Mike Atkin, Managing Director, EDM Council

"Data management will be optimized in the future, meaning embedded as a mandatory component of operations, continually being improved, a baseline for all initiatives within the financial entity. Data will be recognized as the essential factor of input into all business processes (i.e. an operational asset) and will be managed as such."

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Interview with Naomi Clarke, Independent Consultant currently working for a large pension fund

"Given the current economic environment we are working in, the immediate future will be driven by cost and value for money. There will be less tolerance for multiple overlapping data sources and poor data quality."

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