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Omgeo Launches New Omgeo ALERT Capabilities to Drive Settlement Instruction Data Quality

Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the availability of new Omgeo ALERT functionality, SI Compliance Scan. Omgeo ALERT is the world’s largest and most compliant web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of settlement and account instructions (SI). With this new functionality, users can measure the quality of SI data by...

SIX Telekurs Provides French Taxation and Regulation Information

SIX Telekurs has expanded its compliance-related services with French tax and regulatory information for investors and companies with tax liabilities in France. This new service helps financial institutions with French clients or French assets to correctly prepare their accounts to effectively and efficiently process French tax and regulatory requirements. SIX Telekurs, a leading financial information...

EDM Council Plans Fee-based Data Quality Rulebook, Ramps up Semantics Proof of Concept Work

The EDM Council has this month indicated that it is considering a new fee-based service that would provide members with data quality rules that firms could embed in their quality review processes. The idea has gone to the association’s board for approval and if it receives the green light, will be discussed with the membership...

Eze Castle’s Keller Elaborates on Why There’s Room for One More EDM Solution Provider

The enterprise data management (EDM) solution vendor community has been going through something of an evolution over recent years and many of the incumbent vendors have been branching out further downstream into other areas of the data lifecycle, so it’s surprising to see a new entrant on the scene. However, this week, ConvergEx owned Eze...

SAS’ Rogers Talks up the Data Detail Store Layer in its Risk Management Platform, Signals Imminent Capital Markets Focused Developments

Risk management solution provider SAS has this week launched the latest iteration of its risk management platform, which features a data integration layer that has been dubbed the SAS Detail Data Store (DDS) for Banking and aims to act as an intermediary between data warehouses and the risk analytics function. David Rogers, global product marketing...

Six Industry Associations Raise Concerns About Privacy of SIFI Data, Ask for More Time for Input on Requirements

The criteria surrounding regulatory assessments for firms that are to be considered systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) have proved controversial over recent months, but the most recent industry furore seems to be about what happens to the data about these firms once it has been collected. This week, six industry associations wrote a letter to...

EFETnet’s and DTCC Selected by Industry to Develop Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository

EFETnet and DTCC Deriv/SERV (DTCC), announced that the two at-cost, user governed industry cooperatives are collaborating with market participants in the commodities industry to establish a global Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository. The proposed new repository, which will be domiciled in Europe and jointly owned by DTCC and EFETnet, follows EFETnet and DTCC being selected by...

Reval Poll Shows Most End-User Costs Would Increase to Comply with Dodd-Frank

In a live webinar poll last week hosted by Reval, the premiere Software-as-a-Service provider for financial risk management, 68 percent of non-financial end-users of derivatives said that they do not have a Credit Support Annex (CSA) in place with counterparties to their OTC derivative contracts, indicating potential cost impacts for key compliance requirements expected under...

EFAMA Elects Mr Claude Kremer as its New President

EFAMA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association, has announced today that Mr Claude Kremer was elected President of EFAMA for a two-year term. The election of the new EFAMA head took place in Lucerne during the Annual General Meeting. The representatives of the European investment management industry also appointed two Vice-Presidents, Mr Christian Dargnat...

A Low-Latency Lap of SIFMA

Well, I’ve actually completed a few laps of the exhibits over the past couple of days. There’s no doubt the show was once again smaller than before, but the world of low latency was still pretty well represented. Here are some notes from what I’ve seen … * Content providers were few and far between....