UK FSA’s SCV: If You’re a Deposit Taking Institution, it Applies to You
As noted by Reference Data Review recently), the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) incoming Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, which are part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), will require a significant amount of effort to create new data linkages in order for the institutions covered by the regulation to be ready to report...
US Financial Reform Bill Includes Key Data Standardisation Recommendations
The recently published US Financial Reform Legislation Bill contains important data standardisation proposals including the establishment of an Office of Financial Research to monitor and collect data from across the industry. The new regulatory body would include a data centre that would be charged with doing the legwork, namely collecting, validating and maintaining all the...
Markit Document Exchange Moving into Reference Data Extraction and Validation, Says Davenport
Since its launch back in 2008, Markit Document Exchange has finally got close to achieving critical mass, with an increase of funds using the documentation library from 5,000 to 15,000 over the last year alone. Penny Davenport, managing director and head of Markit Document Exchange, speaks to Reference Data Review about the vendor’s plan to move...
Markit Document Exchange’s E-Tax Offering Has Gone Live, 20 Banks on Board
In April last year, Markit signed a partnership agreement with tax compliance software and consulting company, Compliance Technologies International (CTI) in order to integrate CTI’s electronic W-8 application for the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with Markit Document Exchange’s counterparty document solution. Based on this work, the vendors have launched their E-Tax offering, aimed at...
Eurex Clearing Introduces Real-time Risk Management for All Customers
Eurex Clearing successfully launched its new “Enhanced Risk Solution”, a real-time risk data distribution service. Europe’s largest clearing house is the first central counterparty worldwide to offer risk management and margining data in real-time to its trading and clearing members. This innovative service further expands Eurex Clearing’s existing state-of-the-art risk management tools. The Enhanced Risk...
Lehman Investigation Indicates Immense Scale of the Data Challenge Due to 350bn Pages of Data and “Arcane Systems”
The recently published examiner report into the Lehman bankruptcy indicates the scale of the data challenge faced when winding down a financial institution of its size: the examiner was faced with three perabytes (otherwise known as 350 billion pages) of electronically stored data to process. Unsurprisingly, given the fact that information needed to be presented...
FactSet Research Systems Witnesses Revenue Uptick of 0.5% for Second Quarter
After a difficult first quarter of fiscal 2010, data and analytics vendor FactSet Research Systems seems to be experiencing a return to form with an overall revenue increase of 0.5% for the second quarter on previous year’s figures. Phil Hadley, chairman and CEO of the vendor, indicates that he believes the investment in its business...
Regulation is Driving Force Behind Data Management Change, Agree EDM Council’s Atkin and JWG’s Di Giammarino
They may differ in their opinions in how to go about effecting change, but EDM Council’s managing director Mike Atkin and JWG’s CEO PJ Di Giammarino agreed that the regulatory environment is forcing firms to re-evaluate their data management systems. Both Atkin and Di Giammarino told delegates to TSAM in London earlier this week that...
ISDA Indicates Commitment to OTC Derivatives Repositories and Greater Data Standardisation
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has this week pledged its support for the establishment of global central repositories for OTC derivatives data and its commitment to the provision of relevant transaction data to supervisory authorities. The promises were made in a letter that has been sent to the heads of the primary supervisory...
Firms Being Forced to Invest in Counterparty Risk Systems Due to Business Concerns, Says Algorithmics
Rather than pressures related to regulation, the business concerns of the front office are driving a spate of investment into revamping firms’ counterparty risk systems, according to a recent survey conducted by risk solution vendor Algorithmics. The investments are focused largely on credit value adjustment (CVA), which allows for more dynamic pricing of counterparty credit...