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ISDA Responds to the Financial Stability Board Report on OTC Derivatives Markets Reforms Implementation
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has submitted its response to the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) progress report on OTC derivatives market reforms, published on April 15, 2011. The work of the FSB is vital to ensuring that regulatory reform is consistent across different regions, and ISDA believes that the progress report offers a...
Talend Becomes a Sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that it has become an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) sponsor, furthering its commitment to open source. Talend’s sponsorship of the non-profit, volunteer-run foundation will help aid organisational, legal and financial support for a broad range of Apache licensed projects. Current sponsors of The Apache Software Foundation...
The Race to Zero – Three Rules for Winning
Deutsche Boerse Group, one of the world’s leading financial exchanges, recently developed a new ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure linking Frankfurt to five other key worldwide trading centres. The target for the Frankfurt-London link was 5 milliseconds (0.005 seconds). Pushing the limits of how quickly computers can process instructions is the new battleground in finance. True zero...
IASB and FASB Issue Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued new guidance on fair value measurement and disclosure requirements for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The guidance, set out in IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement and an update to Topic 820 in the...
Moody’s Acquires a Direct Equity Stake in KIS Pricing, a Leading Korean Bond Pricing Company
Moody’s Corporation announced today that it has acquired a 16% direct equity stake in KIS Pricing, a leading Korean bond pricing company, positioning Moody’s to benefit from continued strong growth in the Korean domestic debt markets. The acquisition adds to Moody’s existing indirect ownership of KIS Pricing through its controlling equity stake in Korea Investors...
Interactive Data’s CMO Ivaliotis Departs for Pastures New
Interactive Data’s chief marketing officer Mary Ivaliotis is the latest exec to depart the data vendor following its post-acquisition management shake up at the start of this year. Last month, president of institutional sales Cort Williams jumped ship to join data vendor rival SIX Telekurs.
Transatlantic Tension
Speakers from the European Commission at this week’s Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) post-trade conference highlighted the ongoing tension between US and European regulators with regards to the changing global agenda for oversight. Data sharing arrangements may be in place and discussions about data standards may be ongoing across the Atlantic, but what...
Thomson Reuters Embeds Data Visualization Technology into Quant Trading Platform
Thomson Reuters today announced it has joined forces with Panopticon Software, a provider of visual data analysis solutions, to embed data visualization capabilities into the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics. These new capabilities are available both as a managed service within Elektron, the firm’s high performance real-time network and hosting environment, or deployed...
FlexFinance IFRS Live After a Three Month Project Implementation Period
One year ahead of the Central Bank’s schedule, Access Bank, FERNBACH Software’s first Nigerian customer, announced the successful completion of its FlexFinance IFRS implementation. In a record time of less than 3 months, the joint team of Access Bank, KPMG and FERNBACH implemented FlexFinance IFRS. By completing the project, Access Bank has enlisted Nigeria among...
SIX Telekurs Bolsters Regional Expertise in Tokyo Office
Financial information provider SIX Telekurs is proud to announce that Hidehiro Kanehara and Shigeo Katsuno have joined SIX Telekurs Japan Ltd at the company’s Tokyo office. The two new members of the team bring with them years of financial expertise and arrive at a time when SIX Telekurs faces growing demand for its services in...