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Information Mosaic’s New Recruit Wiley on Her Experiences at Swift, Corporate Actions Standards and Career Highlights
Earlier this month, post-trade focused solution vendor Information Mosaic added ex-Capital Group exec Sigrid Wiley to its team as a product specialist for the Americas region. Wiley speaks to Reference Data Review about her career highlights thus far, including her time at Swift, and how she hopes to bring her experience as a practitioner to bear...
BVI’s Koop Talks up the Potential of FundsXML Standard in Europe, ISO Compatibility, Data Dictionary
Since its initial release in 2001, the FundsXML open standard has gained traction in a number of markets including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France for the electronic exchange of funds data. However, Thomas Koop, associate in research and market analysis for German investment fund and asset management industry association BVI, reckons it has the...
The Talk of TSAM
There’s nothing like a good bit of gossip and industry conference floors are often a hotbed of such activity; this year’s TSAM was a case in point. The talk of the show floor within the back office buy side community, much the same as last year’s FIMA, was legal entity identification, including Swift’s decision to...
Broadridge Launches Mobile Voting on Major Mobile Platforms
Broadridge Financial Solutions announced today that Mobile ProxyVote.com is now live and available for proxy voting and compatible with an array of market-leading mobile devices, including Verizon’s new Apple iPhone 4, as well as the BlackBerry, Android, Microsoft , tablets and other smartphone platforms. “The availability of ProxyVote on thousands of mobile devices is in...
JWG’s Di Giammarino Promotes European Input into US OFR Developments Via New GRIS Group
European firms need to collaborate with each other if they are to provide practical input to important regulatory driven standardisation efforts such as the development of a new legal entity identifier by the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), according to JWG’s CEO PJ Di Giammarino. In order to facilitate this transatlantic feedback process, JWG’s...
Wall Street FPGA Applies Hardware Acceleration to FIX
Well, FIX Cancel messages, to be precise. A just-released white paper from Wall Street FPGA – a company whose focus is pretty self explanatory from its name – details how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (or FPGAs) can be used along with the open source QuickFIX engine to rapidly fire off cancel messages to matching engines....
DTCC’s MD of Corp Comms Goldstein Makes His Exit
After nearly 20 years with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) communications team, current managing director of corporate communications and public affairs Stuart Goldstein is due to depart for pastures unknown. Goldstein’s departure was announced in a recent intra-company memo and comes at a time when DTCC is raising its public profile in order...
US Continues to Drag its Heels with Regards to a Decision on the Move to IFRS
In spite of the noises made last year by US regulators with regards to moving towards adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the US regulatory community has thus far failed to commit to a timeline for adoption or even indicate whether it is likely to move to the international accounting standards at all. In June...
Regulators Should Begin Work With the Data and Formats Already Being Reported, Says ICFR’s Ridpath
A lot has been said on the subject of systemic risk monitoring and the collection of macroprudential data over the last year or so (just look at the developments in the US around the Office of Financial Research for proof) and the International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) is aiming to play its part in...
Broadridge Achieves a Record Year in 2010 for Fixed Income Processing Platform Implementations
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that 2010 was a record year for client implementations of its fixed income securities processing platform. Eleven new banks and brokerage firms chose Broadridge because of the expansiveness of its fixed income processing platform, the speed and efficiency with which Broadridge brings clients onto the system, and its enhanced data...