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BNP Paribas Appoints Stephen Hale as Senior Relationship Manager for Hedge Funds in London
BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking announces today the appointment of Stephen Hale, as head of hedge fund relationship management Europe, further strengthening the bank’s European coverage of hedge funds. Stephen joined the Investor Relationship Management team in London at the end of April and reports to Stefano Blotto, head of Investor Relationship Management team...
Pentagon Announces Accredited Status with Cadis
Pentagon Consulting, the project implementation and change management experts, today announced its accreditation as a partner with Cadis, the global EDM specialist. With Cadis Centre of Excellence graduates already in place, Pentagon has a number of project implementations already under its belt. “Pentagon has followed the growth of Cadis over the past two years and...
Calypso Technology Releases Version 12
Calypso Technology Inc., the global capital markets platform provider, today announced the release of Calypso Version 12 (V12) of its cross-asset, front-to-back office platform. The new release improves on best practice standards with stronger seamless integration across asset classes and between functional layers. V12 also builds on Calypso Technology’s growing status as a single-source-of-truth for...
Is the OFR Biting Off More Than it Can Chew?
Serious concerns have been raised about the capacity of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) to be able to effectively process and number crunch the high volumes of reference and economic data that it will receive from the industry in order to monitor systemic risk. The influx of data inputs could potentially overwhelm the...
State Street Vision Report Examines the Impact of Regulatory Change Within Europe’s Investment Management Industry
State Street Corporation today released the latest of its Vision Focus reports which identifies trends within the European investment management sector. Entitled, “The Changing Shape of European Investment Management,” the report examines the wave of new regulation worldwide and its impact on business practices and operating models. According to the report, regulatory efforts have shifted...
CFTC Releases Draft Implementation Proposals, Data Reporting Timelines are a Key Consideration
Following on from the decision last week to give the industry an extra 30 days in which to provide feedback on the majority of its recent proposals, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released a short consultation paper concerning the phased implementation timelines for the swaps component of the Dodd Frank rules, which highlights...
More Formal Management of Instrument Valuation Needed, Says Xenomorph
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solutions provider to global financial institutions, has today released its white paper “Instrument Valuation Management: management of derivative and fixed income valuations in a multi-asset, multi-model, multi-data source and multi-timeframe environment”. The white paper expands on the “Rates, Curves and Surfaces – Golden Copy Management of Complex Datasets” white...
Markit is the Latest to Fall Under the European Commission’s Spotlight for its CDS Data Practices
In the latest of its investigations into the data vendor community’s data practices (following its continuing investigations into S&P and Thomson Reuters), the European Commission has launched a new anti-trust investigation into Markit’s data sharing arrangements with 16 bank dealers in the credit default swap (CDS) market. The Commission is seeking to establish whether the...
Clearstream and Euroclear Bank Set Higher Standards for International Securities
Euroclear Bank and Clearstream, the international central securities depositories (ICSDs), have developed jointly and in collaboration with the International Securities Market Advisory Group (ISMAG), a new industry framework to increase transparency and efficiency for the issuance and asset servicing of international securities. The framework sets standards for these securities, issued in and primarily deposited with...
ISDA Raises Concerns About Representation of Liabilities in Recent FASB/IASB Exposure Draft
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has raised its concerns about the representation of an entity’s financial position, solvency, and exposure to credit and liquidity risk in the proposals in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) recent exposure draft on the offsetting of financial assets and financial liabilities....