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UK FSA Provides More Derivatives Transaction Reporting Data Details, Including Cleared Derivatives Reporting Requirements
Last month, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) launched its Zen transaction reporting and market surveillance system for the collection of Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) codes and has opened a four month window for firms to adopt the codes ahead of the November deadline. Accordingly, this month’s FSA Market Watch newsletter is focused on providing market…
How Will the FSB’s Shadow Banking Taskforce Tackle the Data Standards Issue?
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has recently indicated that its shadow banking taskforce is working on some recommendations for strengthening the oversight of the non-bank systemically important sector, which will necessarily require these firms to provide detailed legal entity structural and hierarchical data to the regulatory community. But how will the community tackle the oversight…
SWIFT Looks to Fill “Payment Gap” Worth Billions of Euros, Caused by Poor Reference Data
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, today announced the launch of SWIFTRef, a family of products that aims to eliminate costly payment errors arising from bad data, and increase straight-through-processing (STP). Thirty percent of non-STP payments are caused by bad reference data, and with manual…
DataContent and Hat Trick Software Announce Exclusive Joint Venture and the Release of DataCompass
DataContent and Hat Trick Software today announced an exclusive joint venture partnership together with the launch of DataCompass, a new software capability providing financial institutions with superior information and market data management. DataCompass tracks and identifies data utilisation by all users and applications within an organisation irrespective of data source or delivery mechanism. Michael Paull,…
Quality of Regulatory Authorities More Important Than Structure, BBA Tells Parliamentary Committee
The UK’s new financial regulators will need clear lines of responsibility and the right statutory objectives if they are to meet their intended aims, the BBA has told the joint committee of MPs and Lords scrutinising the new Financial Services Bill. More important than the new regulatory structure will be clarity in the chain of…
State Street Global Advisors Continues to Grow its Fundamental Equity Team in Ireland
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) today announced two senior additions to its Fundamental Equity team in Ireland. The new appointments will support a growing team based in Dublin and headed by Chris Johns, global chief investment officer, Active Fundamental Equities. Jeremy James joins as senior research…
The IMS Group Appoints Three New Compliance Consultants
The IMS Group (IMS), the compliance and regulation consultancy, has appointed three new compliance consultants. The new hires are Diana Stevens, Cynthia Griffith and Daniel Sharpe. Diana joins IMS from multi-billion dollar hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management, L.P, where she assumed the day to day coverage of compliance in its London branch. Her areas…
Matthias Scheiber Joins Multi-Asset Investment Team as Fund Manager
Schroders continues to strengthen its £35 billion FUM Multi-Asset business with the appointment of Matthias Scheiber*. Matthias starts at Schroders on 8th September 2011, joining a team of over 60 multi-asset investment professionals globally and will report to the Head of Multi-Asset Investments, Johanna Kyrklund. Matthias has eleven years of investment experience across the industry….
Virginie’s Blog – Reference Data @ Sibos
Ahead of Swift’s annual conference later this month, here’s a quick roundup of the reference data related sessions on the agenda for those heading to Toronto (and a preview for those of you who will be waiting for A-Team coverage of the event). In keeping with Swift’s extended ambitions in the reference data standards space…
Algorithmics Indicates it Will Stick to Existing Product Roadmaps Post-IBM Acquisition
IBM’s US$387 million acquisition of risk specialist Algorithmics will see the incorporation of the latter’s staff and products into the IBM fold. According to company executives, Algorithmics will add credit, market and liquidity risk solutions to IBM’s business analytics and optimisation division, while IBM will offer Algorithmics’ users extended analytics capabilities, as well as business…