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2011 US GAAP and SEC Taxonomies Available
The 2011 US GAAP Taxonomy and related taxonomies maintained by the SEC are now available, and companies may submit their interactive data filings to EDGAR using these taxonomies. A listing of all taxonomies available for use, including the 2011 US GAAP taxonomy, is located at http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/edgartaxonomies.shtml. The EDGAR validation and Previewer have been updated to…
Bank of Beijing Undertakes New Initiative to Incorporate Accuity’s AML Solutions
Accuity, the leading provider of payment routing data, anti-money laundering (AML) screening software, and services, is pleased to announce that Bank of Beijing, one of China’s largest commercial banks, has selected Accuity’s Compliance Link and Global WatchList. Compliance Link, Accuity’s modular enterprise-wide interdiction screening solution, and Global WatchList, Accuity’s proprietary collection of sanctions, enhanced due…
Princeton Financial Optimizes Data Management of Hauck & Aufhaeuser in Record Time
Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. (HAIG), a service provider for the conception and administration of funds, needed to replace their fund accounting system while maintaining operation of all business-critical systems. Due to Princeton Financial® Systems? (PFS) extensive experience in this area, they successfully supported HAIG in this project and simultaneously established a system architecture…
Broadridge’s Access Data Introduces Unique Tax Management Solution for Mutual Funds and ETFs
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced a unique tax management solution providing mutual fund managers and ETF sponsors access to data to accurately calculate state tax obligations. Broadridge’s Multi-State Tax Management solution, the first of its kind, collects, organises and tabulates shareholder account data across distribution channels in all 50 states, without divulging specific shareholder information….
Markit Calls for a Data Aggregator Within Swaps Data Repository Space
In its feedback to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) joint proposals regarding reporting to swaps data repositories, derivatives specialist vendor Markit suggests the industry needs a data aggregator in order to gather together the data spread across the various repositories in the market. This indicates that Markit may…
ICFR Meeting Calls for Increased Consistency of Supervisory Data Collection, Global Coordination
The International Centre for Financial Regulation’s (ICFR) recent meeting on macroprudential data scoping highlighted a number of concerns related to the collection of data for the monitoring of systemic risk, not least of which was the need for global coordination among regulators. Attendees to the meeting, which took place earlier this month in London under…
Ecclesiastical Insurance Group Selects DataFlux for Solvency II Data Management Implementation
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced that Ecclesiastical Insurance Group, a commercial insurance specialist, has selected DataFlux technology to support the implementation of its data management programme. This initiative will help enable compliance with the Solvency II Directive data requirements and improve operational efficiency. The DataFlux Data Management Platform will be deployed…
Macbeth Talks up the DTCC’s Data Repository Ambitions for 2011: More Markets on the Agenda
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will be focusing on taking its services forward this year in line with regulatory developments, according to Stewart Macbeth, general manager of the DTCC’s Trade Information Warehouse (TIW). At the start of this year, it launched its automated portal for regulatory access to global credit default swap (CDS)…
A Spectrum of Opinions
One thing became clear during this month’s series of interviews with industry participants on the subject of legal entity identification standards and when reading through the responses to the Office of Financial Research’s (OFR) proposals on the subject: there is not much agreement on which way to proceed with regards to standardisation. As I noted in…
Daewoo Securities Selects Pricing Partners’ Financial Analytics Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today the signing of Daewoo Securities, the largest stock brokerage and investment banking firm in South Korea, as the its first South Korean client. The agreement was signed through its regional partner Belatos. Under this groundbreaking agreement, Daewoo Securities will deploy Pricing Partners’ entire financial pricing and analytics solutions, Price-it Library suite…