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Riskart Announces Release of New OTC Derivatives Publishing Mechanism
Following the announcement of the decision from the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) to back European Commission plans to compel transaction reporting on OTC derivatives, Riskart today announced the release in beta test of its new XML-based publishing module. This will allow the publication in XML in compliance with FpML standards from its OTC…
DTCC Continues on the Case to Pitch its Warehouse as Trade Repository for OTC Derivatives
It seems that a week can’t go by without some mention of a trade repository being made in the US market. This week, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has been doing its bit to renew its call for regulators and financial market participants to use its own Trade Information Warehouse as a repository…
UK FSA Confirms Data Format of Reports for Derivatives on Regulated Markets
The deadlines may have slipped but the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has released more details surrounding the formats required for its new Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) transaction reporting regime. The regulator last week released a new document aimed at confirming the way in which transactions in reportable securities derivatives admitted to trading on a…
DST Global Solutions Launches EDM and Analytics Offering for Public Pension Funds
Following a rebrand earlier this year and a spate of new hires, investment management solution vendor DST Global Solutions has added a new data management and analytics platform for public pension funds to its portfolio. Jamie Verrengia, performance solution manager for the North American region, explains that its enterprise data management (EDM) platform has been…
B-next Extends Data Reach with Interactive Data Agreement, Extends Ambitions to UK
Compliance and regulatory reporting platform vendor b-next has recently signed an agreement with Interactive Data under which the data vendor will provide global pricing and reference data to feed b-next’s MACOC software solutions. The deal is part of the German vendor’s ambitions to crack the UK market and should help it in the effort to…
Fidelity ActionsXchange Looking Beyond Corporate Actions Cleansing, Say Pollard and Culhane
Just over a year after her appointment to the helm of Fidelity ActionsXchange, Laura Pollard indicates that the traditionally corporate actions focused vendor is set to expand its reference data reach under her leadership. The vendor is considering expanding its data cleansing solutions to areas such as entity data and moving further down the corporate…
Interactive Data Promotes Duggan for the Second Time This Year, Adds TALF Offering to Evaluations Portfolio
Following the recent departure of Shant Harootunian, Liz Duggan has received her second promotion in the space of a year, as she steps into Harootunian’s shoes as managing director of Interactive Data’s Evaluations business. The vendor has also recently signed an exclusive agreement with Prism Valuation to offer the vendor’s valuations for loans made available…
Fitch Releases Global Money Market Fund Rating Criteria
Fitch today released updated rating criteria for money market funds, with particular emphasis on funds that invest in short term debt instruments issued by financial institutions, non-financial corporations and asset backed commercial paper programmes (often referred to as ‘prime’ funds). Prime money market funds were central to the financial crisis last year following the failure…
CESR Releases Consultation Paper on Trade Repositories in the Derivatives Market: Data Standards on the Regulatory Agenda Again
Echoing the discussions going on over the pond on the subject, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has just released a new consultation paper examining the need for a trade repository for OTC derivatives data. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Mary Schapiro has been talking about the need for a greater…
Another Delay to UK FSA’s AII Deadline for Derivative Transaction Reporting
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has just announced yet another delay to the go live date for transaction reporting using the Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII). The deadline was delayed from November 2008 to the first quarter of 2009, then another announcement in February this year delayed the deadline by which approved reporting mechanisms (ARMs)…