Clearstream’s Mermigidis Calls for Drop Dead Deadline for Move to ISO 20022 for Corporate Actions
The benefits of moving to ISO 20022 appear to be clearly understood in the market by most, but many firms are now keen for Swift to provide a clear timeline for its adoption, including a drop dead deadline for the switchover from ISO 15022 formatted messages for corporate actions. Clearstream Banking’s senior vice president in...
Asia Keeping a Close Eye on Europe’s Corporate Actions Harmonisation Work, Says Standard Chartered’s Bone
The progress that is being made in Europe with regards to harmonising corporate actions processing is being closely monitored by the markets in the Asian region, according to Nicholas Bone, director of transaction banking sales for investors and intermediaries at Standard Chartered. A lot of progress has been made in countries such as Korea, Taiwan...
Issuers are at the Root of the Corporate Actions Standardisation Problem, Agree Banking Panellists
Banking participants at last week’s CorpActions 2010 conference in London agreed that regulations are needed in order to compel issuers to provide corporate actions data in the right format at the start of the process. Justin Chapman, global head of strategic implementation for Asset Servicing at Northern Trust, contended that mandatory data tagging of corporate...
BNP Paribas Securities Services and the AXA Group Sign New Partnership Agreement
BNP Paribas Securities Services is delighted to have been appointed by AXA Group as custodian/depositary provider across several AXA entities and territories. The new five-year contract covering France, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Italy represents a comprehensive asset servicing partnership with the AXA Group across its insurance, real estate, private equity, investment management and corporate...
Progress Being Made on Defining T2S’s Potential Interaction with Corporate Actions, Says BNY Mellon’s Bodart
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) Target2-Securities (T2S) settlement system may have been delayed for an indefinite period (likely from the original date of 2013 to 2015), but important discussions are continuing on the possible interaction of the area of corporate actions with the securities settlement system. Paul Bodart, executive vice president and head of EMEA...
SEB’s Strandberg Talks up Need for Business Case for Corporate Actions Harmonisation
The Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG) and the Corporate Actions Joint Working Group (CAJWG) have come forward leaps and bounds in their endeavours to harmonise the industry’s corporate actions messaging formats, according to Christine Strandberg, global product manager for the Asset Servicing division of Nordic financial group SEB. However, the standards may be in place...
DTCC Adds Three Non-Participant Board Members to its Ranks, Two New Directors
As part of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) bid for the approval of its Trade Information Warehouse as a data repository for OTC credit derivatives, which was finally granted earlier this year, the vendor has been making a bid to prove its stability and independence as candidate for a single market utility in...
Pay Per Click Emerging Markets Yield Curve Data via the FinDataPortal Platform
FinDataPortal (FDP), a financial portal, today announced that Kafafian Emerging Markets (KEM), a provider of treasury research data now offers its Daily Yield Curve data on FDP’s intuitive web-interface. The KEM suite of emerging market yield curves uses relevant market data to construct daily yield curves. It utilises a consistent methodology, which is designed to...
Shah and Williams Exit GBST, CFO Salis Steps in as Interim CEO of Global Broker Services
GBST’s CEO of Global Broker Services Sunil Shah has stepped down from his role at the vendor and current chief financial officer, Patrick Salis, has assumed his role in the interim period. Terry Williams, who was chairman of its European operations, has also left the firm. According to a spokesperson from the vendor, the parting...
Wall Street Horizon Launches Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM), First Service Delivering Automated, Dividend Data for Low-Latency Electronic Traders
Wall Street Horizon today announced the public launch of its Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM) service, which uses proprietary algorithms to “read” wire-service dividend announcements and parse announcement data into structured fields usable by computerized processing systems. RDM is the first automated comprehensive source of information on dividend announcements available to the investment community. The...