Market Surveillance Requires Systems that are Lean, Fast and Flexible
In a highly regulated trading market that is growing in complexity, yet must prove transparency, market surveillance is a significant challenge – but it can be addressed using technologies that span systems and data management, and deliver real-time alerts of potential abuse in the market. The pressing issues of surveillance and how best to tackle...
Oddo Asset Management Selects CounterpartyLink for Entity Data
Oddo Asset Management has selected CounterpartyLink to supply validated legal entity data and links to pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that will be used to support regulatory requirements such as Know Your Customer (KYC). The French asset manager has online access to CounterpartyLink’s central entity database, which includes content defined by and used by clients. Tanguy...
A-Team’s DMS Awards Reward Best and Brightest in the Industry
A-Team Group hosted its inaugural DMS Data Management awards ceremony at last week’s DMS event in London, with the awards presented to the great and the good of the data management community by our own president and editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney, in a bow tie no less. The awards were devised to give recognition to those...
DMS Review: LEIs and the Focus on Entity Data
The emerging global legal entity identifier (LEI) remains far from the tipping point of acceptance across global capital markets and for some it appears as a precursor to a vast mapping exercise. But the standard is gaining ground and will form an integral element of the entity data that’s increasingly needed by companies and required...
Interactive Data Automates Price Review Process with Vantage Price Validation Workflow
Interactive Data has added a price validation workflow to its Vantage web application for evaluated pricing transparency. The Vantage Price Validation Workflow module automates pricing exception handling and validation processes, cutting out typically manual processes and reducing operational costs. The price validation workflow is designed to provide a central hub for client validation activities and...
Joss Adds SIX Corporate Actions Data to Entity Data Management System and Prepares for LEI
Joss Technology, a software solutions provider dedicated to entity data, has added SIX Financial Information’s entity level corporate actions data to its Entity Data Management System (EDMS). The EDMS platform is a response to emerging regulatory requirements in financial markets for entity data, such as legal entity identifiers (LEIs), rather than security data, and is...
Interactive Data Tracks Evolution of Fair Value Practices
Interactive Data has published the results of its 2013 Fair Value Practices survey, noting a rise since its last report in 2011 in the number of mutual fund firms using fair value practices every day, and a rise in the number of firms using a confidence level threshold at the security level to invoke fair...
CICI Utility Cuts 18,000 pre-Legal Entity Identifiers from its Database
The CICI utility that issues CFTC Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs) for use in the interim global legal entity identifier (LEI) system will today remove 18,000 records from its database. These records are part of the tranche of 22,000 records that DTCC, which works with Swift as a pre-Local Operating Unit (pre-LOU) in the interim global...
SunGard Extends Reach of Acquired XSP Corporate Actions Solutions
XSP’s December 2012 acquisition by SunGard has given the corporate actions specialist greater geographic reach, a broader customer base and the opportunity to integrate its software with SunGard middle- and back-office applications. XSP’s latest geographic push is into Asia-Pacific, where it has customers, but mostly global customers with offices in the region. Taking advantage of...
LSE Details Go Live of Pre-LEI System and Expects Smooth Transition to Global LEI system
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) went live with its pre-Legal Entity Identifier (pre-LEI) system issuing Interim Entity Identifiers (IEIs) on Monday August 5. It reports significant interest in entity registration, with many draft records being created ahead of payment and submission, and one complete transaction issuing an IEI to global equity trading services firm BTIG...