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...
Japanese Regulator Plans to Extend Risk Reporting Requirements for Large Financial Groups
Following the release of its basic blueprint for reform of the financial services market at the end of last year, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has this month indicated that it will be drawing up a draft bill, including reforms related to capital and liquidity risk reporting, for governmental consideration this year. A key...
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...
UK FSA Sends Out “Dear Compliance Officer” Letter for SCV Reforms, Data Testing on its Way
In line with its recent more aggressive approach to ensuring the market complies with its demands, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has this month sent out a letter to compliance officers about the upcoming single customer view (SCV) reforms. According to the regulator, the letter is aimed at providing more information about the new...
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...
Wall Street Reform Act Includes Key Risk and Data Requirements in Light of Lehman Failure
The US House Committee on Financial Services’ Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which is currently making its way through the US legislative process, is seeking to rectify a number of inadequacies in light of the failure of Lehman, including key provisions around data and risk management. For example, the issue of living wills...
SIX Telekurs’ Raskin Explains Details Behind Acquisition of CSV’s Illiquid Instrument Pricing Business
In line with the current boom in the valuations sector, last week SIX Telekurs acquired the evaluated pricing business of niche player CSV in order to boost its offering at the more illiquid end of the instrument pricing spectrum. Barry Raskin, managing director of SIX Telekurs in the Americas, speaks to Reference Data Review about...
BBVA Deploys SuperDerivatives’ Derivatives Solution in Hong Kong
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), one of the largest European banks, announced that it has selected SuperDerivatives (SD), the global derivatives benchmark and leading multi-asset front office system, to support its currency derivatives business in Hong Kong and to better meet its clients’ changing needs. In allowing better pricing standards across the board, the SD-FX...
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...
European Commission Plans June Conference on Regulating Large Financial Conglomerates, Data Issues Sure to Feature
The European Commission has this week revealed plans for a conference on the regulatory challenges of supervising “large complex groups” in the financial sector, due to be held in Brussels on the 7 June. The conference, which will include panel discussions involving executives from key European financial institutions, will likely involve a great degree of...