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SEC to Mandate Adoption of XBRL Financial Reporting For Large Publicly Listed US Firms
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued rules requiring large publicly held US companies to adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting by 15 December. This follows the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting’s report, released in February, which recommended that companies should use XBRL to tag their financial…
Introduction of BEI Beyond Industry’s Level of Maturity, Research Warns
Regardless of an understanding of the benefits of introducing a standard business entity identifier (BEI), the industry is as yet unconvinced that the cost of its introduction is justifiable. That is the message that the EDM Council, consultancy firm Bearingpoint and Swift heard loud and clear during interviews conducted with 15 international financial institutions as…
EDM Council Releases Details of Semantic Repository Project
The EDM Council has released a report concerning its plans for a new online semantic repository, which will identify all data attribute terms and definitions used by financial institutions for business processing, investment decisions, scenario modelling, risk management and portfolio valuation. The initial draft of the repository is due to be released at the end…
SEC’s Cox to provide guidelines for adoption of XBRL
Christopher Cox, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, is expected to release recommendations this week about how US companies can adopt extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for their financial reporting. This follows the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting’s report, released in February, which recommended that companies should use XBRL to tag…
Markit Launches Counterparty and Compliance Documentation Library
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has launched a new documentation library that allows financial institutions to post, manage and share compliance, counterparty credit and regulatory documents securely. Called Markit Document Exchange, the new service automates KYC, anti-money laundering and compliance certification processes in order to reduce risk and lower operational…
Cicada Expands KYC Solution Business Development Team
Shaun Hassett has joined Cicada’s business development team as vice president of business development. He will be responsible for developing and expanding the company’s Cicada Profiler software business. Prior to Cicada, Hassett was national account manager at Accuity, a provider of data, software and services to help organizations maximize efficiency and meet their regulatory compliance…
Brewin Dolphin Opts for Zoomix Accelerator for Instrument, Client Data Management
UK private client investment manager Brewin Dolphin has implemented Zoomix’s Accelerator enterprise data management platform to automate the matching, standardization and classification of hundreds of thousands of customer and financial data records. Accelerator is a so-called ‘self-learning’ data management platform that analyzes the relationships and meanings relevant to any data domain by observing decisions made…
Counterparty data just got more interesting…
Although financial institutions have had teams of people managing and cleansing entity data for decades, when CounterpartyLink was founded in 2005 the practice of turning to external sources for cleansed entity data and verification of one’s own data was a relatively new concept. Identified by backers Investors Guaranty and data platform provider Cicada as a…
Cicada Spins Off CounterpartyLink to Investors Guaranty Global Alliance
Following several months of market speculation, CounterpartyLink has been sold by parent Cicada Cos to a group of investors led by Andover Capital, part of the Zurich-based specialist fund Investors Guaranty Global Alliance (IGGA). The deal places CPL among a number of financial content and technology investments already owned by IGGA and the Investors Guaranty…
The Sun Sets For Larry, Rises For Others?
It’s been a while I know, but this blogging business just keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list. My thanks then to “Uncle” Tom Groenfeldt for alerting me on his blog to the recent departure from Sun Microsystems of Larry Scott, where he was vice president for financial services. Larry is going somewhere,…