Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in London, himself previously with FT Interactive Data.
Financial institutions acknowledge the need to harmonise their approach to data management for regulatory reporting and record keeping, and recognise the resulting benefits of increased efficiency, reduced costs and readiness for future regulation – but while the concept may be clear, the practicalities of implementing a harmonised approach can be challenging. The webinar will detail...
The firms furthest along with cloud have stopped arguing about whether market data belongs there. What occupies them now are the questions that outlasted the migration: where the on-premises boundary finally holds, what turns out to cost money, and whether entitlement frameworks built for headcount can survive machines that consume data at machine speed. Getting...
Now in its 10th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
The European corporate actions market could be the stage of some pretty heavy duty discussions regarding standards going forward, particularly with regards to the adoption of both XBRL tagging and ISO 20022 messaging. The region’s issuer community, for one, is not going to be easy to convince of the benefits of XBRL tags, given the...