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Broadridge Financial Solutions CEO Calls for Nationwide Effort to Increase Individual Shareholder Voting
In remarks before the National Press Club this morning, the chief executive of the nation’s largest shareholder communications company called on all CEOs to encourage individual shareholders, including employee shareholders, to vote their proxies. “In 2010, just one in 20 individual retail investors voiced their opinions about the companies they invested in by exercising their…
Cadis Platform Puts Robeco in Control of Data Consumption
Robeco, the Netherlands based asset management specialist, has streamlined its data needs via the Cadis EDM platform. Live since February 2011, Cadis, the global EDM specialist, provides Robeco’s Price, Rates and Security Master Management – increasing flexibility and transparency. The decision to choose Cadis comes after a highly effective Proof of Concept (PoC) which saw…
Schroders’ Walsh and HSBC’s Johnson Discuss the Tension Between Data Inputs and Outputs in the Face of Regulatory Change
The buy side community’s data managers are being faced with a tricky balancing act of ensuring their output to clients is optimised from a technology and data standpoint and that their data inputs are of sufficiently high quality for regulatory and client purposes, according to panellists at last week’s A-Team Group and SmartStream roundtable. Speaking…
Back Office Exec Registration on the Cards for Broker-Dealers, But What Impact Will it Have on Data Management?
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has this month announced that it will be pushing ahead with its proposals to introduce registration requirements for back office operations execs within broker-dealer firms. But what will be the financial and practical impact on these back office functions, including data management and potentially outsourced operations roles, in the…
ESMA Praises Joined up Approach to Valuations and Risk Management in IAS 39 Hedge Accounting Changes
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent a letter to the head of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) regarding its views and concerns about incoming hedge accounting changes that are included in the recent exposure draft on IAS 39. ESMA indicates in the letter that the proposals will allow for a more…
Opinion: Identifying Portfolio Exposures with Cross Reference Data
By Jackson Griffith, Director of Enterprise Solutions, S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, McGraw-Hill Financial When a negative market event occurs, risk managers need to quickly determine their exposure to it and the impact it may have on their portfolio. Exposure can come in many forms and may not be obvious at first glance. For example,…
Knock on Effect
The close link between data quality and better risk management has come under the spotlight in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and the ensuing regulatory crackdown on financial markets. Regulators such as the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have even been making noises…
Cadis on Course to Sign Seven New Clients This Quarter, Says Simpson
Business has picked up for the EDM vendor community at large over the last six or so months (just look at GoldenSource’s recently reported figures for example) and Simpson indicates that from November onwards Cadis has also witnessed a significant uptick in business. In fact, the vendor is on course to sign up seven new…
CFTC Commissioner O’Malia to Host SEF Showcase: Current Technology and Market Direction
Commissioner Scott D O’Malia of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will host an open public meeting at 9:30 am on Thursday, 31 March 2011, to explore the attributes necessary to make swap execution facilities (SEFs) successful. Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, amended the Commodity Exchange…
DST Global Solutions’ Gallacher Discusses Blueprinting Approach to Data with Anova Platform, New Client Win
DST Global Solutions launched its middle office data management and analytics platform Anova towards the end of last year and has since been working on the migration of its client base onto the new platform and has bagged its first client, according to Des Gallacher, global head of data management and analytics solutions for the…