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FRSGlobal Fine Tuning Fair Value Pricing Models for Emission Linked Derivatives, Says Brammertz
Risk and regulatory reporting solution vendor FRSGlobal is currently endeavouring to develop new valuation models in order to gauge the fair value prices of emission linked derivatives contracts, according to Willi Brammertz, senior risk advisor at the vendor. Although political concerns are holding back some degree of progress with regards to these new instruments, Brammertz…
UnaVista to Offer Transaction Reporting Service
The London Stock Exchange announced today that the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has given UnaVista Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) status for transaction reporting. In addition to providing the basic validation services required under MiFID, UnaVista will offer firms validation tools to monitor the quality of their transaction reports, significantly reducing the risk of providing incorrect…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Enhances Reporting Capabilities for Derivatives and Fair Value Requirements
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in securities servicing, has enhanced its Workbench reporting platform to assist institutional clients comply with recent rule changes related to derivatives accounting and disclosure in international markets. These changes are being driven by updates to Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 53, Accounting and Financial Reporting for…
DTCC Continues Expansion of Public Data on OTC Credit Derivatives
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) expanded its public release of data in the Trade Information Warehouse’s global repository to include a breakout of outstanding credit default swap (CDS) contract values in their currencies of denomination. This added information is expected to help provide greater transparency into the risk exposure of a particular currency…
Regulators are Cracking Down on Counterparty Identifiers in Line with the MiFID Review
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) recent fining of German bank Commerzbank for its transaction reporting failures is just one instance of the regulator’s current focus on the data details of a firm’s business. One of the underlying problems in Commerzbank’s case was the incorrect allocation of counterparty codes and the use of proprietary codes for…
What the Industry Wants the Regulators to Know About Reference Data…
As noted in my previous blog, a regulatory driven reference data utility is on its way for the US market, but it seems that not many of you out there are convinced this is the right step to be taking. My fellow panellists at a recent corporate actions focused event in London indicated that they…
IOSCO Confirms Hedge Funds Will Need to Provide Regulators with 11 New Data Sets in September
Following the publication of the new agreed template for the global collection of hedge fund data by the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee in February, the regulator has confirmed that these funds will have to start providing this data to national regulators at the end of September. Aimed at better monitoring risk…
From the Trenches
The benefit of operating on the ground is, of course, that you get to figure what’s really going on. None of this learning vicariously through various media, like this one. The real deal. And so it wasn’t long after touching down in New York – well Newark, actually, after an 18-hour haul courtesy of Continental…
Swift’s Mansur and DTCC’s Hands Champion Global Use of XBRL for Corporate Actions, Pilot to be Launched by Year End
What is good for the US market, could also be good for the rest of the world, contended Max Mansur, global market manager for Asset Servicing at Swift, and David Hands, director of asset services product management at DTCC Solutions, when speaking about the benefits of XBRL for the corporate actions market. The work going…
SEC Seeking Market Feedback on XBRL Compliance Challenges
As part of its wider push to extend XBRL into other areas such as the tagging of source documents for mortgage backed securities (MBS) and corporate actions, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is currently taking stock of the challenges faced by the industry during XBRL implementation thus far. To this end, the US regulator…