XBRL Tagging of Corporate Actions Could Save the Industry US$400m per Year, According to DTCC, Swift and XBRL US Case Study
As promised by David Hands, director of asset services product management at DTCC Solutions, back in April, the group working on the XBRL and ISO mapping initiative has finally published its case study to illustrate why firms should adopt XBRL tagging for corporate actions. And that reason comes in the form of an estimated saving...
Wall Street Reform Bill Debate to Cover Office of Financial Research
Up until now, the proposals for the creation of a reference data utility in the form of the Office of Financial Research have largely passed under the radar during the regulatory reform debates in the US. However, data issues are set to be a key topic of discussion this week with the Office of Financial...
FinAnalytica Integrates FINCAD Analytics in New Cognity Release for Full Multi-Asset and Multi-Strategy Coverage
FINCAD, a provider of derivatives analytics, today announced that FinAnalytica, a provider of real world portfolio risk solutions for asset managers, hedge funds and multi-manager funds, has expanded its derivatives pricing coverage by embedding the firm’s Analytics Suite into Version 3.2 of Cognity, its flagship platform. Cognity, FinAnalytica’s risk management and portfolio allocation platform, directly...
DTCC, SWIFT & XBRL US Unveil Business Case for Corporate Actions Automation
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), SWIFT and XBRL US today announced the results of a business case advocating a transformation in the way corporate actions announcements are communicated in the United States, allowing investors to receive information on such corporate actions as mergers, dividends, stock splits and other events in a more timely,...
Systemic Risk Regulator Should Resemble the CRO Function and Data Utility is Likely to be Too Costly
The 22 respondents to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s recent survey (Sifma) believe that regardless of the exact structure of the systemic risk regulator, its roles and responsibilities for the overall markets should reflect those of a firm’s chief risk officer (CRO). The Sifma member firms, regulators, clearing counterparties (CCPs) and exchanges involved...
JWG’s MiFID League Table Includes Four Main Reference Data Considerations
As previously noted by Reference Data Review, the current review of MiFID encompasses a whole host of reference data issues, which think tank JWG has handily included in its recently updated MiFID league table. The four main reference data changes comprise the new requirements for counterparty and client identifiers, the extension of post-trade data requirements, changes to...
Post-Trade Data Quality has Deteriorated Since MiFID But Are Current Proposals Enough for Instrument Identification, Asks FISD’s Davin
The market fragmentation that has been a major by-product of the introduction of MiFID has resulted in a number of serious data related issues in the OTC space in particular, said Tom Davin, managing director of the Washington-based Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), at the recent MiFID...
JWG’s Di Giammarino Talks up Data Practicalities of Risk and Regulatory Onslaught
The long list of incoming regulations, especially those that will require the reinvention the risk management wheel, have thrown into the spotlight the need for firms to get a better handle on their operational risk, said PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of think tank JWG at the recent Thomson Reuters pricing event in London. Reiterating his...
ABSXchange Loan Analytics Platform Announces 11 New Clients
ABSXchange, Standard & Poor’s platform for structured finance and whole loan analytics, is pleased to announce it has won a number of new contracts with a series of large financial institutions in Europe. Standard Chartered, Natixis, Amias Berman, Bayern LB, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Harbourmaster, Delta Lloyd, BPV, ESAF, Swiss & Global AM and...
Resilient Pricing Benchmarks are Needed for Europe, Agree Thomson Reuters Panellists
In light of the current high market volatility, Europe is in need of resilient pricing benchmarks in order to more accurately model instrument pricing, especially for those at the complex end of the spectrum, agreed panellists at Thomson Reuters’ Global Pricing Forum in London last week. The push towards providing greater transparency around prices from...