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Compliance Specialist co-comply Signs Three New Contracts
co-comply, the compliance and governance software supplier to the institutional and hedge fund industries, announces that it has signed three new contracts in the hedge fund, wealth and institutional asset management markets. Esemplia Emerging Markets, the active emerging markets equity asset manager, has agreed an initial three-year license for all modules of co-comply – the…
MphasiS Announces Partnership with Talend to Bring Master Data Management to Banking and Capital Markets Clients
MphasiS, a leading IT services provider, today announced a strategic relationship with Talend, a global open source software leader. This partnership will enable banking and capital markets customers to swiftly implement Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, cultivate profitable customer relationships, streamline data management operations, and manage risk more effectively. MDM implemented on the Talend enterprise…
SOFGEN’s REG-Reporter Selected By One of the Largest Banks in the World
SOFGEN Holdings (SOFGEN), an international banking IT consulting firm, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, SOFGEN Americas, has signed NY Branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), as a REG-Reporter client. SMFG offers a broad range of financial services centered on banking as well as…
Opinion: LEIs – The Need for a System
By Chris Pickles, head of industry initiatives, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets On 15 October the finance ministers and central bankers of the G20 economies issued a communiqué that said: “We underscored our support for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system which uniquely identifies parties to financial transactions with an appropriate governance structure…
Talend Expands OEM Program to Broaden Options for Embedding Integration Technology
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced an expanded OEM Partner Program designed to help software vendors and SaaS providers embed enterprise-grade open source integration technologies in their offerings. With “Powered by Talend,” partners can leverage all components of the Talend Unified Platform, a set of robust and powerful data management and application…
ISDA Comments on EC’S MiFID Proposals
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) welcomes the publication by the European Commission of legislative proposals relating to its review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The overarching objective of the original MiFID framework was to further the integration, competitiveness and efficiency of European financial markets, and ISDA supports changes that…
Opinion: Moving One Step Closer to a Global LEI
By Bill Meenaghan, global product manager for Alert, Omgeo Support from the G20 group of finance ministers and central bank governors for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system is a promising development and one that, we hope, will encourage momentum towards the adoption of the LEI standard. With the second phase of the ISO…
Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service Now Offers New 16:00 CET Evaluation Point
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of independent pricing and evaluation services, today announced an expansion of the capabilities of its Fair Value Information Services (FVIS) by introducing a new 16:00 Central European Time (CET) evaluation point for Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern equity securities. This new service is designed to help meet the fair value…
SunGard Adds Data from GFI Group to Enhance its FastVal Derivatives Valuation Service
SunGard has added data from GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (“GFI”), to help enhance the quality of the data in SunGard’s FastVal, which provides independent valuation services. GFI, a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets, will supply FX data to…
FSB Granted with More Power for Systemic Risk Data Monitoring, ESRB Details Data Collection Arrangements
At the weekend, the G20 indicated that the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) powers with regards to systemic risk monitoring and data gathering would be increased to allow it to compile an annual review on how well financial regulations have been adopted across the G20 countries. And, at the end of last month, the European Systemic…