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European Commission Finally Releases S&P ISIN Fees Judgement, Considers Vendor to be Abusing its Dominant Position
Following 10 months of deliberation, the European Commission has finally released its preliminary findings on its inquiry into Standard & Poor’s pricing practices concerning International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs). According to its recent memo, the Commission considers the vendor to be “abusing its dominant position” as the sole appointed National Numbering Agency (NNA) for US…
Majority of Reference Data Review Readers Facing Staffing Freezes or Job Cuts
Our November Reference Data Review reader poll indicates that times are tough for data management teams out there, with the majority facing either a moratorium on hiring new staff or job cuts. Despite the increased market volatility and its knock on impact on data volumes, most data managers are being forced to make do with…
Thomson Reuters Expands Corporate Actions Data Coverage for Emerging Markets
Thomson Reuters today announced the expansion of its corporate actions data coverage to include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Russia, and Serbia. The extended offering increases transparency and access to some of the world’s fastest growing emerging markets by providing details on total shares, capital changes, dividends, voting rights and nominal values accessible…
LCH.Clearnet’s OTC SwapClear Service Clears One Millionth Trade
SwapClear, LCH.Clearnet Limited’s OTC interest rate swap clearing service, has cleared its millionth trade, taking the notional value of trades in SwapClear to US$206 trillion. Launched in 1999, SwapClear currently clears 64% of the global interbank interest rate swap market and the range of products cleared has been extended to include overnight index swaps of…
Fed’s Tarullo Highlights Data Management Considerations of Living Wills
The regulatory community has been abuzz with the notion of living wills, or firm specific resolution plans, for most of this year, but most have not considered the data management responsibilities inherent in the process. Daniel Tarullo, member of the board of governors of the US Federal Reserve System, addressed this issue and highlighted the…
CESR Awaits Industry Feedback on Standard Reporting Format for Securities Issuers
Industry participants have until the end of this month to respond to the Committee of European Securities Regulators’ (CESR) call for evidence on the use of a standard reporting format for financial reporting for issuers admitting securities for trading on regulated markets. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has already mandated similar…
Global Asset Manager Selects XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform
XSP, a global provider of corporate actions software, announced today that a leading global asset manager, a business within one of the world’s largest global financial services firms, has selected the XSP v5 solution for automated global corporate actions processing. With processing centres located in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, the client will implement the XSP…
Sifma’s AMF Committee Jumps on the Bandwagon for XBRL in the Corporate Actions Issuer to Investor Space
XBRL for US corporate actions was the talk of Sibos this year and it seems that the industry is gradually getting behind the idea, as Swift, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and XBRL US continue to push forward with their initiative. This month, Sifma’s Asset Managers Forum (AMF) Corporate Actions Committee demonstrated its support…
S&P’s FIRMS Launches New Global Data Feed Aimed at Addressing the Risk and Valuation Challenge
Following the launch of a raft of new services earlier this year, Standard & Poor’s Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS) has added another to its portfolio in the form of a new enterprise level data feed solution. The Global Data Solutions offering purports to provide users with a range of data and analytics to…
Tradeweb Expands Market Data Availability Through Thomson Reuters
Tradeweb, a leading global provider of online markets for institutional investors and dealers, and Thomson Reuters today announced that their market data has been incorporated into the Thomson Reuters Datascope Real-Time (RDRT) feed offering. Tradeweb data continues to be available via Reuters 3000 Xtra desktop. Thomson Reuters customers are now able to subscribe to Tradeweb…