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Omgeo Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced that it is celebrating 10 years of successful partnerships with its global community in automating trade lifecycle events, streamlining operations and reducing counterparty risk. Founded in 2001 by Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) and the DTCC, Omgeo has become a key partner in trade lifecycle automation….
ISDA Raises Concerns About Representation of Liabilities in Recent FASB/IASB Exposure Draft
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has raised its concerns about the representation of an entity’s financial position, solvency, and exposure to credit and liquidity risk in the proposals in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) recent exposure draft on the offsetting of financial assets and financial liabilities….
SEC and CFTC Agree on Definitions for Swaps, Now Over to You for Feedback…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have this week finally provided some long sought after clarity regarding the definition of what classifies as a “swap” and hence should be covered by the new and incoming Dodd Frank derivatives requirements. These definitions should also provide some of the foundations on…
Major Study Finds Rapid Adoption of Hosted Email Compliance
Financial institutions are rapidly moving to hosted email compliance and storage services to deal with increasing costs, risks and regulations, according to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study was commissioned by Bloomberg Vault, a service that helps corporations globally meet compliance, regulatory and eDiscovery requirements. The poll of 187 executives with responsibility for…
SEC Proposes Amendments to Remove Credit Ratings References in Several Rules Under the Exchange Act
In keeping with its ongoing crackdown on the credit ratings agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has this week voted unanimously to propose amendments that would remove references to credit ratings in several rules under the Exchange Act. This is all part of the requirements contained in Dodd Frank to remove references to credit…
SIX Telekurs’ Filanowski Highlights the Biggest Data Challenges of Dodd Frank
The Dodd Frank Act contains a whole host of new and different data requirements in terms of reporting formats and potential standards, but how will all of this impact the practitioner and vendor communities directly? Reference Data Review speaks to Paul Filanowski, US product development at SIX Telekurs, about the changing US regulatory scene and how it…
Quantifi’s Latest Whitepaper Explores the Challenges in Implementing a Counterparty Risk Management Process
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, has published a whitepaper entitled ‘Challenges in Implementing a Counterparty Risk Management Process’. The paper explores the key challenges for banks in the implementation of counterparty risk management, focusing on data and technology issues, in the context of current trends…
IMS Group Boosts Consultancy Practice
The IMS Group (IMS), a provider of global regulatory compliance consulting and integrated business support to the asset management and securities industry, has further bolstered its consultancy offering with the hires of Jonathan Mott, Oksana Selezneva and Claire Carpenter. IMS has seen a year of rapid growth, including the acquisition of compliance consultancy MMS in…
Breaking News: Ex-Morgan Stanley Economist Berner Takes Over US Treasury and OFR Role from Alexander
Following on from the recent departure of Lewis Alexander from the US Treasury, the regulator has appointed former Morgan Stanley chief economist Richard Berner to take over Alexander’s role as advisor on domestic financial matters to Treasury secretary Tim Geithner. A key part of this job is helping the Treasury to establish the new Office…
Data Quality on the Brain
The last thing I expected to hear during a panel on low latency technology deployment at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (catchily dubbed BTLLT by fellow A-Teamers) conference in London was speakers talking about reference data quality. But that’s what happened. Everywhere I go people are talking about data quality. They might…