Peter Ku

Peter Ku
Peter Ku is Director of Solutions Marketing responsible for marketing the Informatica Platform to the banking and capital markets industry. Previously, Mr. Ku was responsible for driving Informatica’s data governance and integration competency center product marketing activities across the Informatica’s Platform. Mr. Ku is an expert in the topics of data integration, data governance, data quality, business intelligence, data warehousing, and data mining and has been marketing these technologies for the past 15 years to the financial services industry.

Prior to joining Informatica, he spent five years in the mortgage technology industry marketing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based loan eligibility, pricing, and underwriting solutions to the top mortgage lenders in the U.S..He was Director of Product Marketing for Iteration Software, a pioneer in Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) (Acquired by Oracle) and real-time business intelligence solutions and Vice President of Financial Services Analytic Applications for Sagent Technology (Acquired by Pitney Bowes) developing and marketing packaged analytic applications to retail and commercial banks worldwide. Mr. Ku spent 6 years in the bank card industry as Director of Information Services at Visa International where he lead a global team responsible for developing and marketing relational OLAP business intelligence solutions to over 3,000 credit card banks worldwide and at Providian Bancorp managing their secured credit card products. Mr. Ku holds a bachelors degree in Marketing and Statistics from Hawaii Pacific University and an MBA in finance from the University of San Francisco.

Dealing with the Latest CFTC Ruling on Real-time SWAP reporting – Are you prepared?

January 10, 2012 – 12:19 pm

The recent Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ruling requiring real-time reporting for over-the-counter (OTC) swap trading was decided over the holidays to increase transparency and provide a comprehensive view of the entire swaps market to help regulators monitor and govern market activities and hedge against increased systemic risk.  This ruling is a major change for [...]

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Effective Data Management Strategies for Solvency II Compliance

July 29, 2011 – 4:24 pm

Recent announcements by the European Parliament to delay Solvency II implementation deadlines to 2014 are in the headlines as European insurers are seen as being ill-prepared for the minimum capital requirements that will be brought in by Solvency II regulation.  A big reason for this stems from the data requirements and challenges companies face to [...]

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The Symbiotic Relationship Between Your Data and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

June 2, 2011 – 6:11 pm

Many felt that with the increased focus on credit issues and all the discussion around ‘too big to fail’… enforcement of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) would take a back seat; this has not been the case.  Recent large and very visible enforcement actions have called into question current oversight of AML/BSA; [...]

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Big Data Challenges And Opportunities In Financial Services

June 1, 2011 – 2:07 pm

There is a Big Data movement happening across financial services. What is Big Data you may ask? ZDnet describes it in its simplest terms as a phrase that refers to the tools, processes and procedures allowing an organization to create, manipulate, and manage very large data sets and storage facilities. However, it is not just [...]

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Post Merger Integration Recipe for Success in Financial Services

December 10, 2010 – 7:15 pm

I recently read an article written by Ann All titled “Simple Concepts Key to Complex Integration Projects” which discussed some of the hasty mergers and acquisitions since the financial crisis. It also discussed some of the recent successes at Wells Fargo and their integration of Wachovia contributed to  having business involved in the integration strategy, [...]

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