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IFDS Appoints Ian Betley in New Development Role
International Financial Data Services (IFDS), the investor record keeping outsourcing joint venture between State Street Corporation and DST Systems, Inc., announced today the appointment of Ian Betley as Group Executive, responsible for life and pensions business development, reporting to Paul Roberts, Managing Director. Prior to joining IFDS, Ian was Sales Director at Steria; responsible for...
Kurtosys Launches Their New Interactive Analytical Web Tools Service for Asset Managers, Kurtosys Tools
Kurtosys Systems Limited announced today that their new interactive analytical web tools service, Kurtosys Tools, part of Kurtosys’ Digital Communications Platform, is now available for asset managers. Underpinned by Kurtosys Web, our leading web content management solution, Kurtosys Tools provides a refreshing way of presenting fund based data and content on asset manager websites. With...
Virginie’s Blog – Data Transparency and Ethics
The speech made by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examination’s director Carlo di Florio at the National Society of Compliance Professionals meeting in Baltimore last week might have been a little heavy handed in its delivery (he referenced philosophers Plato and Aristotle, for one), but the message was...
Opinion: LEIs – The Need for a System
By Chris Pickles, head of industry initiatives, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets On 15 October the finance ministers and central bankers of the G20 economies issued a communiqué that said: “We underscored our support for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system which uniquely identifies parties to financial transactions with an appropriate governance structure...
SOFGEN’s REG-Reporter Selected By One of the Largest Banks in the World
SOFGEN Holdings (SOFGEN), an international banking IT consulting firm, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, SOFGEN Americas, has signed NY Branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), as a REG-Reporter client. SMFG offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking as well as...
All Happening, Down Under
Having been granted the regulatory green light, Chi-X Australia is set to go live at the end of this month, as a competitor to the incumbent Australian Stock Exchange. The soft launch phase will begin with the trading of eight securities, and will then be expanded to all S&P/ASX 200 component securities and ASX-listed ETFs....
Opinion: Moving One Step Closer to a Global LEI
By Bill Meenaghan, global product manager for Alert, Omgeo Support from the G20 group of finance ministers and central bank governors for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system is a promising development and one that, we hope, will encourage momentum towards the adoption of the LEI standard. With the second phase of the ISO...
ISDA Comments on EC’S MiFID Proposals
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) welcomes the publication by the European Commission of legislative proposals relating to its review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The overarching objective of the original MiFID framework was to further the integration, competitiveness and efficiency of European financial markets, and ISDA supports changes that...
Talend Expands OEM Program to Broaden Options for Embedding Integration Technology
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced an expanded OEM Partner Program designed to help software vendors and SaaS providers embed enterprise-grade open source integration technologies in their offerings. With “Powered by Talend,” partners can leverage all components of the Talend Unified Platform, a set of robust and powerful data management and application...
Virginie’s Blog – It’s a MAD, MiFIR World
Last month, I looked at some of the data management implications of the incoming sequel to 2007’s MIFID: the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), and today sees the European Commission dotting the Is and crossing the Ts of the draft, with a view to being much more prescriptive about post-trade transparency requirements (among other...