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Global LEI Foundation Weighs the Options of Operating or Outsourcing Central LEI Database
The board of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) met last week to discuss the master agreement that will define legal relationships between Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the foundation, governance of the foundation, and funding. It also touched on the technology requirements of the Central Operating Unit (COU) of the Global LEI System...
Lou Eccleston, former S&P Capital IQ chief, to head Toronto Exchange Group
Former S&P Capital IQ chief Lou Eccleston is heading to Canada to join TMX Group as its new chief executive officer. In this role he’ll oversee a range of multi-asset class exchanges in Canada, including the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Canadian Depository for Securities, and the Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corp. amongst others. Prior to S&P,...
Northern Trust Supports Client Reporting with Sapient Global Market’s CMRS Platform
Northern Trust is up and running with a delegated client trade reporting service based on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of Sapient Global Markets’ Compliance Management Reporting Solution (CMRS). The solution supports Northern Trust in fulfilling its clients’ derivatives reporting requirements under EMIR and Dodd-Frank, and eases the burden of keeping up with regulatory change. Northern...
AIM Software Wins Corporate Actions Client in the Netherlands
AIM Software has secured its fifth customer in the Netherlands, a large European asset manager that is using the company’s GAIN Corporate Actions DM application to automate the processing of corporate actions. AIM won the contract in a competitive selection process and was favoured on the basis of the application’s integration with SimCorp Dimension, the...
SunGard Builds on APT Risk Engine to Deliver Integrated Risk Management Service
SunGard has introduced a hosted risk management service based on the APT risk engine that has been deployed by many of its institutional buy-side clients. The so-called APT Enterprise platform embeds the risk engine and market data in a single, accessible data repository and offers users an interactive dashboard and browser-based delivery. APT Enterprise was...
GFT Blue Paper Presents the Potential of Big Data Technologies
As the technology infrastructure of financial services firms begins to buckle under the strain of huge and increasing volumes of data, many firms are investing in big data projects to improve data management for the purposes of regulatory compliance, risk reduction, cost efficiency and business benefit. The extent and intent of investment varies, however, with...
Bloomberg Promotes FIGI as Primary Global Security Identifier
Bloomberg plans to rename its Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID) as the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) with a view to making it the world’s primary standard for securities identification ahead of the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN). Bloomberg’s move follows last week’s release by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) of an update to...
AxiomSL Offers Support for BCBS 239 Compliance
AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has combined functionality of its ControllerView platform to support clients that must comply with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s regulation 239: Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting. BCBS 239 includes a series of 14 principles providing guidance on how banks should...
Tom Dalglish Starts at SmartStream with a Transformation Project at Société Générale
Just weeks after moving on from iGate Global Solutions to join SmartStream Technologies as head of transformation services, Tom Dalglish is in Paris, working on a project at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) that will manage and optimise the bank’s back-office securities processing. The project is led by Accenture Post-Trade Processing (APTP),...
Feedzai Partners Azul Systems to Deliver Ultra-Fast Fraud Prevention Solutions
Azul Systems has signed up Feedzai, a company that uses real-time, machine-based learning to analyse big data in commerce, as an independent software vendor that will use its Zing Java virtual machine (JVM) to power ultra-fast processing of big data within the Feedzai Fraud Prevention That Learns software. In the financial services sector, Feedzai works...