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Data Quality on the Brain
The last thing I expected to hear during a panel on low latency technology deployment at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (catchily dubbed BTLLT by fellow A-Teamers) conference in London was speakers talking about reference data quality. But that’s what happened. Everywhere I go people are talking about data quality. They might...
Euroclear’s Kuhnel on ANNA’s Potential as a Registration Authority, What to Expect this Year on Legal Entity IDs
As elaborated upon by WMDatenservice’s Markus Heer earlier this year, the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) is pitching itself as a suitable registration authority for the new legal entity identification (LEI) standard underlying the US Office of Financial Research (OFR). Dan Kuhnel, chairman of ANNA and director for primary markets and international fixed income...
Regulation is Driving the Industry Towards a Utility Approach to Market Data Infrastructure, Says HSBC’s Dean
Regulatory change is pushing the industry towards a central utility model for market and real-time data, according to Alan Dean, global head of cross asset FIX connectivity at HSBC Global Banking and Markets. Speaking at A-Team Group’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (BTLLT) event in London this week, Dean indicated that the onslaught of...
Moody’s Corporation Names Salli Schwartz Vice President, Investor Relations
Moody’s Corporation announced today that Salli Schwartz, who previously served as interim head of Investor Relations, has been named vice president, Investor Relations p. She is responsible for outreach to Moody’s current and prospective shareholders and management of Moody’s Investor Relations team. “Salli’s substantial industry experience and extensive knowledge of Moody’s global business strategy will...
Moody’s Corporation Elects Carlton Charles Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Operational Risk Officer
Moody’s Corporation announced today that Carlton Charles has been promoted to senior vice president, treasurer and chief operational risk officer, for the Corporation. As the head of the global corporate treasury group, Charles manages the company’s financial risk, oversees funding activities, monitors the performance of retirement plan assets, oversees Moody’s share repurchase program and manages...
Pricing Control and Data Governance for Valuations is High on Industry Agenda, Says PaceMetrics’ Severs
Given the regulatory focus on increased transparency, financial institutions are putting much more emphasis on “control and influence” of valuations data, according to Dick Severs, senior buy side consultant at EDM solution vendor PaceMetrics. Severs, who joined the vendor in 2009 from ING Investment Management, reckons investment in pricing control and data governance by fund...
Quantifi to Provide Leading ASEAN Investment Bank Pricing and Analysis Solutions
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced that CIMB Group’s investment banking division has selected its pricing and risk analytics solutions, Quantifi XL, to support its expanding operations. CIMB Group is Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider and one of Southeast Asia’s leading universal banking...
Princeton Financial Systems appoints Christian Farber as Head of Global Sales and Marketing
Princeton Financial Systems (PFS), a provider of investment accounting, investment compliance, data management, performance measurement, and reporting solutions to the global investment industry, today announced that it has appointed Christian Farber as senior vice president and head of global sales and marketing. “PFS has the key elements that I was seeking in a company: people,...
Only 12% of Buy Side Firms Ready for Data Requirements of Incoming Regulation, According to MoneyMate Survey
The buy side has a long way to go before it is ready for the regulatory onslaught it is facing over the next few years in terms of making its data management preparations, if recent figures from a MoneyMate survey of around 50 investment managers are to be believed. Only 12% of respondents indicated that...
Liquidity Risk Regulation: Data Quality Under the Microscope
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) liquidity risk regime has set a precedent for tackling this particularly thorny area of risk management, ahead of the wider implementation of Basel III globally. Reference Data Review speaks to a number of risk technology vendors about the data quality issues underlying the liquidity risk management challenge in light of...