State Street Vision& Strategy
StateStreet vision is by 2022, we will be the leading provider of asset ________ to the owners and managers of the world’s capital.
Intelligence
How many PAM E Pam Clients do we have?
( Note: an error margin of upto 3 is allowed )
22
What does IASA Stand for?
(Hint: Insurance space)
The Insurance Accounting & Systems Association
This is the StateStreet middle office Investment record keeping application.
RKS
What is the UI framework used at StateStreet called?
CDT
Who is the Chief Operating Officer of StateStreet?
Lou Maiuri
This regulation will take effect in 2020, banks will be required to calculate expected loss over the life of each financial instrument and recognize the expected loss upon origination.
CECL ( Current Expected Credit Loss)
BNY Mellon recently(In 2019) announced a partnership with ______ to deliver Integrated Technology and Servicing Capabilities across the Investment Lifecycle
BlackRock
What is the StateStreet Enterprise Reconciliation system between custody and accounting called?
TLM
This is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by LinkedIn, written in Scala and Java.***
Apache Kafka
Louis recently visited(May'2019) CRD in Burlinglington, MA. He shared an important note on what he observed about our colleagues in CRD.
What are the words he used to describe their attitude in his blog?
"Get it done", , "Scrappy"
Fewer decks, talking points and steering groups – and more rolling up our sleeves and getting things done
Where is PAM's disaster recovery center located?***
Elmsford, NY
This is the Order Management and Portfolio Management Systems from IHS Markit.***
Thinkfolio
What is our custody application system called?
MCH
This is a software development technique—a variant of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services.
Micro Services
How many clients are in the Global Client Division?
(Hint: Per Ron's Q1 blog)
58
How does PAM process the transfer of assets from one legal entity to another within a consolidated reporting structure?
(Hint: What is this called within PAM?)
InterPortfolio Transfer ( IPT )
In 2017, ______ ACQUIRED BISAM, LEADING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT PROVIDER AND RISK MANAGEMENT THOUGHT LEADER.
FACTSET
These are the four systems involved in a Front Office System, name all 4.
Portfolio Management System
Order Management System
Execution Management System
Compliance Management
What is the open source container orchestration tool called?
(Hint: This was originally designed by Google)
Kubernetes
Who is the head of Devops in Ram Puppala's leadership team.
Ravi Venkata
Name the standard interfaces tool built to input data from external sources like Bloomberg, IDC etc.
PAM Data Link OR PAM Data Link Plus
Buy-side organizations recognize that a consolidated system, supported by a single source of data called______ can reduce the costs of managing alternatives and other asset classes.
(Often called Single Source of Truth)
Investment Book of Record (IBOR)
State Street Company Charles River Development recently announced Partnership with ______ to Expand Portfolio and Risk Analytics in Charles River IMS.
Axioma
Lately, this is one of the most successfully interpreted languages used in Data Science.
(Hint: Uses PEP8 Coding standard)
Python