Xtrakter’s Response to CESR MiFID Review Highlights Costly Challenges of Client Identification
Following the publication of the Committee of European Securities Regulators’ (CESR) consultation papers on MiFID earlier this year, industry groups have submitted their responses to the proposals, including providing feedback on the potential data costs and system requirements to cope with the changes. To this end, the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) and Xtrakter Transaction Reporting...
Sutton Elaborates on RBC’s Four Priorities for Reference Data for the Next Three Years
Since her appointment at the end of last year, Julia Sutton, global head of reference data, including customer accounts and onboarding, for the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), has been focused on prioritising the long list of reference data issues that need to be tackled within RBC over the next two to three years. The...
DTCC Announces Intention to Establish European-based Derivatives Trade Reporting Repository
The subject of a European-based trade repository for the credit default swap market has long been a bone of contention between regulators and industry participants in the derivatives market, but it seems that the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is hoping to solve the issue by setting up a new subsidiary on European shores...
Entity and Counterparty Data in the Spotlight
Members of the JWG Customer Data Management Group speak to Reference Data Review about the upcoming hot topics in the area of entity and counterparty data. Challenging the Customer Data Conundrum PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of JWG A key theme within the well versed G20 93 point plan set out in spring 2009 was the call to...
Thomson Reuters is Joining its Enterprise Platform up with its Data Content, Rationalising Reference Data onto DataScope
Following the launch of its Enterprise platform earlier this year, data giant Thomson Reuters is now focusing its energies on joining the platform up with its various data content sets. The vendor is also working on developing its flagship DataScope solution as the overall platform for its various data offerings on both the Thomson and...
New Data Requirements for All as Conference Committee Passes Office of Financial Research Reforms
Following intensive discussions last week by the conference committee designated with the job of hammering out compromises on the US financial reform bill, the proposals for the establishment of the Office of Financial Research have finally been approved. The committee has published the final titles from the conference, which includes details of the data utility...
Privacy Concerns Raised About Office of Financial Research, But Reforms Likely to Pass Without Significant Amendment
This month’s regulatory debate on the subject of the Office of Financial Research proposals, which are contained in Title I of the current US financial reform bill, included discussion of the potential threat to privacy that the data centre poses to the US market overall. Democrat senator Susan Garrett called the Office of Financial Research...
GoldenSource’s Stock and Meriton Discuss Potential to be a Direct Technology Provider to the Office of Financial Research
Given that the Office of Financial Research has been a hotly debated topic within the industry of late (even if the regulatory community has been rather quiet on the subject), it is no surprise that vendors are keen to offer their services to those charged with establishing such a data utility. One such vendor is...
Philadelphia Fed’s Nakamura Proposes Instrument Database, But What About the Office of Financial Research?
Proof yet again that the US regulatory community might not be aware of the implications of the Office of Financial Research reform proposals comes in the form of recent comments made by Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank economist Leonard Nakamura. Nakamura made proposals last week that an all encompassing instrument database be established to help regulators...
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...