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UK FSA Contemplates Mandating the Introduction of Data Governance Staff and Systems
In keeping with its increased focus on the data details of firms’ transaction reports, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) is now contemplating mandating that firms appoint a data governance officer and introduce a data assurance programme to ensure that standards of data quality are being maintained. This is all part of its more intrusive…
Instrument and Entity Identification are Key Issues for MiFID Forum’s Transaction Reporting Subject Group
Given the high profile fines that have been handed out over the last 12 months in the UK for data related transaction reporting failures, it is no surprise that the subject of entity and instrument identification is top of the list for the recently formed Transaction Reporting Subject Group of the MiFID Forum. Alan Jenkins,…
Hibernia Aims to Undercut Latency with Express New York to London Link
Hibernia Atlantic is planning a sub 60 millisecond latency cable link between New York and London, claiming that none of its competitors will be able to beat its speed in the timeframe before the cable carries low latency data for high frequency traders in mid-2012. Hibernia says the 60ms New York to London round trip…
Broadridge Announces Shareholder Forum in Canada
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced the Canadian rollout of Shareholder Forum, a hosted online venue where validated shareholders can submit questions, vote their shares, respond to surveys and interact directly with their corporate issuers year-round. Corporate shareholders are increasingly relying on online tools to obtain information, voice their opinions, communicate and vote. The Broadridge Shareholder…
Barrage of New Regulation Could Cause Death by Data Drowning, Warns ISMAG’s Gubert
The slew of new regulations entering into force over the next few years, including a new iteration of MiFID, the multiple legislative changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act and the Securities Law Directive (to name just a few), will result in such an increase in reporting requirements that firms may find themselves in danger of…
SimCorp’s Schröter Elaborates on Decision to Partner with Aim Software for Data Heavy Lifting
SimCorp’s recently announced decision to partner with data management solution provider Aim Software was based on the desire to better support its clients’ requirements around golden copy record production, explains Marc Schröter, SimCorp’s senior vice president and head of strategic research. Up until now, the vendor has left its clients to deal with the process of…
Collaborative Approach to Instrument and Entity Identification Could be the Key, Suggests A-Team Group and CGS
Can commercial initiatives and innovation through partnerships succeed where standards bodies have failed in the world of entity and complex instrument identification? That is the question posed by A-Team Group and Cusip Global Services’ (CGS) most recent whitepaper, “Expanding Global Identifiers in Complex Assets and Other Areas”, and one which, given the focus of the…
Commerzbank Focused on Integration of Dresdner’s Customer Data onto its Central Database
Commerzbank may have fallen foul of the UK regulator earlier this year as a result of transaction reporting errors, but the German bank has been engaged in sorting out some of its underlying data issues by doing some of the groundwork to integrate the customer data acquired as part of its takeover of Dresdner Bank…
A-Team Insight Exchange Takes a Holistic Approach to Latency
Next week’s A-Team Insight Exchange event in London will feature a number of sessions that focus on latency and how to reduce it – not only through fast messaging middleware and co-location, but across an entire trading system stack – hardware, software and network. One session in the Insight Conference – “Beyond Equities and Sub-Microsecond…
Plus Markets Puts Algo Technologies at Heart of New Exchange Plans
Plus Markets’ plans to develop a competitive stock exchange by creating new products and services on the basis of its status as a recognised investment exchange are underpinned by a technology strategy that builds on Algo Technologies’ software. The exchange’s change in business strategy results from a five month review that ended in late August…