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SunGard’s Scianna on the Position, Risk and Ops Focused Restructure and Plans for the Stream Solution Set This Year
As part of its overall push to better integrate its various solution sets following so many acquisitions over the last few years, SunGard has created a new division focused on supporting the position, risk and operations functions within financial institutions. Various parts from the old brokerage and clearance business, the wider capital markets group and...
Precise Time – A Data Centre Utility
Endace suggests the Commission should require any of these venues that offer co-location services to make GPS timing signals available to users of the venues at a “reasonable cost”. This has already been advocated in an article I wrote for Equinix’s Winter 2010/2011 Newsletter. If you missed it first time around, here’s a ‘reprint’: We’ve...
Aiming for Omgeo’s Lunch?
The announcement this week that Swift will be launching a new “range of initiatives” targeted at the standing settlement instructions (SSI) space is obviously part of the network operator’s new 2015 strategy to get into the reference data space, but it also represents yet another competitive bid to eat rival Omgeo’s lunch. The planned SSI repository...
Angela Merkel’s Trading Platform Decision
If you think Angela Merkel had a tough time convincing the German public to bail out Greece, think what she’s facing as she prepares to tell them that their beloved Xetra trading platform is relocating to a former Ford car park in Basildon, a desolate corner of Southeast Essex. For that is what almost certainly...
CFTC’s Dunn Admits That Key Market Definitions are Missing from Reforms at the Outset
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has spent most of the start of this year complaining about its dire situation with regards to funding, but this week saw definitive proof that the regulatory reform process is starting off down the wrong track, with the admission by CFTC commissioner Michael Dunn that the regulator is pushing...
SEC Proposes First in Series of Rule Amendments to Remove References to Credit Ratings
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose amendments to its rules that would remove credit ratings as one of the conditions for companies seeking to use short-form registration when registering securities for public sale. Section 939A of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires federal agencies to review how...
New Commodity Derivatives IDs Likely to Prove a Headache for Both the Industry and Regulators
As well as highlighting the legal entity identification challenges that the industry is likely to face as a result of the MiFID review, attendees to this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting also elaborated on the instrument identification challenges of the European Commission’s planned extension of the directive to cover the OTC and commodity derivatives....
MiFID Transaction Reporting Group Meeting Highlights UK Specific Client and Counterparty ID Challenges
The UK is likely to face a significant challenge in the identification of clients and counterparties at an individual level on a national basis, as specified by the current proposals under the auspices of the MiFID review, according to participants at this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting. Rather than opting for firm level identification...
Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. in Luxembourg Goes Live with Profidata’s XENTIS
n December 2010, Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. (HAIG) in Luxembourg successfully went live with XENTIS, the fully integrated Investment Management System of the Swiss software provider Profidata, to support their sophisticated Fund Accounting needs. The implementation project started in February 2010, and by August, the first funds were migrated from the legacy system...
MoneyMate Expands North American Operations
MoneyMate, a leading provider of investment data quality management solutions, today announced the continuing expansion of its operations in North America with the opening of a new office in Boston. MoneyMate has also appointed industry veteran Stephen B. Kraunelis as Senior Vice President, North American Sales. Mr. Kraunelis will be based in Boston. With 20...