CFTC Commissioner O’Malia to Host SEF Showcase: Current Technology and Market Direction
Commissioner Scott D O’Malia of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will host an open public meeting at 9:30 am on Thursday, 31 March 2011, to explore the attributes necessary to make swap execution facilities (SEFs) successful. Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, amended the Commodity Exchange...
Chinese Insurance Market Represents a Lot of Potential, Says DST Global Solutions’ Harries
As well as working on its Anova platform offering, DST Global Solutions will be focused on expanding its reach in its core Asian markets this year, including China, according to Geoff Harries, global head of asset servicing for its Investment Management Solutions (IMS) business. Harries, who joined the vendor from Fiserv last year, indicates that...
Now is Time for Discussion About Standards Migration and the “Science Bit”, Says ECB’s Gross
In a similar vein to their discussions during last year’s Sibos panel on the developments around the Office of Financial Research (OFR), the European Central Bank’s (ECB) head of external statistics Francis Gross championed the cause of regulatory led reference data standardisation at last week’s TSAM alongside EDM Council managing director Mike Atkin. Gross noted...
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...
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...
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...
SIX Telekurs Partners with Inforex to Increase its Market Presence in Greece
SIX Telekurs and Inforex, an official data vendor of the Athens Stock Exchange, have signed an agreement to pursue a common growth strategy in the Greek market. The agreement enables Inforex to offer international financial market data drawn from the products and the unique database of SIX Telekurs. Elena Pateropoulou, managing director of Inforex, comments,...
Xenomorph Extends Local Technical Support Capability in Asia Pacific
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solution provider to global financial institutions, extends local technical support capability to Australia and the Asia Pacific time zone with the relocation of two senior employees from the UK to Australia. Chris Budgen, chief technical architect and founding director, and Irina Taran, senior developer, have moved to Melbourne and...
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...
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...