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A Tower of Babel for Risk Data
There’s nothing better than a good analogy and this week’s JWG organised panel discussion on the topic of funds transfer pricing (FTP) saw one of the banking industry panellists (Chatham House rules prevent me from naming names) come up with a particularly good (if well used) description of the risk data challenge as one in…
Principia Adds Intex Performance Data to Structured Finance Platform
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance investments, today announced its integration of Intex performance data into the Principia Structured Finance Platform (Principia SFP). Intex Historical Collateral Performance Data for an extensive range of measures, including delinquency, loss and prepayment rates for over 23,000 Intex modelled RMBS, ABS, CMBS…
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,…
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…
Eagle Expands EMEA Team
Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, today announced that it has hired a new regional sales director to address the business development needs of existing clients and prospects in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Atul Mehta brings extensive knowledge and experience selling back office systems…
Four Weeks and Counting…
Four weeks and counting until the juggernaut that is Sibos rolls into Amsterdam and already I’m struggling to fit all the meetings into the week and make sure I can attend the sessions relevant to my particular data focused corner of the market. As I noted back in May when the conference programme was first…
QBE European Operations Selects DataFlux to Improve the Value of its Corporate Information
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced that QBE, a business insurance specialist with operations in 18 European markets, has selected DataFlux technology to help it improve the quality of data within its European data warehouse and to enhance its data migration process for systems consolidation. QBE will use DataFlux technology to standardise,…
Welcome to the Hotel California
A particular analogy used by a panellist at last week’s SunGard City Day in London (what once used to be the GL.Net Forum) stuck with me all weekend. In reference to the current regulatory regime, the speaker from Royal Bank of Canada compared the situation his firm was facing in light of the regulatory driven…
Euroclear Management Reshuffle Continues, May is Next Out of the Door
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has certainly had its fair share of people moves this year, with the departure of a number of its Xtrakter subsidiary execs earlier this year and the upcoming addition of ex-BNP Paribas Fortis exec Lieve Mostrey as chief technology and services officer at the start of next month. Following a…
Resolving Symbols and Enabling Choice (Sponsored Article)
By Mark Woolfenden, managing director of FOW TRADEdata The choice of and the investment in trading solutions for both the buy side and sell side of the derivatives industry is an important determinant in the degree to which competition exists in brokerage and other trading related services. Well managed instrument symbology enables sell side firms…