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Telekurs Specifies Reference Data Changes for MiFID Compliance
Telekurs Financial has released further details of the reference data it is adding to its Valordata Feed (VDF) to help its clients comply with MiFID. These details add flesh to the bones of the announcement the vendor made late last year of its plans to address the data requirements of MiFID (Reference Data Review, November…
Firms Shy From Cost of Migration To New Ref Data Codes for MiFID
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has published the responses to its public consultation on the use of reference data standard codes in transaction reporting under MiFID. By press time however CESR had not published its final decisions on the codes to be used, so it is as yet unclear whether the responses will…
Fortent Releases Regulatory Information Management Tool
Fortent, a provider of information and technology to the risk and compliance market, has launched Fortent Inform, a tool designed to help financial institutions streamline their management of regulatory information. As a web-based, centralized source of compliance information and analysis, Fortent Inform provides a single source for US federal and state financial regulations and related…
Bank Mandiri (Europe) Implements Cicada Profiler
Bank Mandiri (Europe) is installing Cicada’s Profiler software as part of an internal project to evaluate the advantages of automating its client onboarding, periodic compliance reviews and AML risk rating process.
MIS Offers Case Management Tool Based on Cicada Technology
Cicada’s Profiler Solutions division is deploying components of its Profiler customer due diligence/KYC software to develop a case management tool for McDonald Information Service (MIS), provider of information on the reliability of retail and institutional accounts to more than 4000 financial institutions worldwide. The tool, called MIS CM, will be provided as an ASP in…
Omgeo Releases Alert Plus For Bulk SSI Upload Capability
Post-trade, pre-settlement trade management services provider Omgeo, the joint venture company of DTCC and Thomson Financial, has released and signed up the first users for Omgeo Alert Plus. This new feature set within the Omgeo Alert web based database for the maintenance and communication of standing settlement and account instructions is designed to give high…
Trio of Ex-SunGard Data Experts Offers EDM Consulting
In a reunion of ex-SunGard executives, data veterans Marc Odho and Rob Ord have joined Dale Richards to launch the LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) Consulting Group. Richards is CEO of the company, which he says is already engaged in enterprise data management assignments in both the vendor and client spaces. Odho and Ord, made redundant…
New Head of ICMA Ltd Milne Predicts Data Aggregation Role
As a collector of data, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) will play an important role in helping the industry deal with the increased reporting requirements, need for greater transparency and greater requirement for accurate data in a post-MiFID/Basel II European marketplace, believes the new managing director of ICMA Ltd, Kevin Milne. The changes to…
DSEL Picks FinArch Over GoldenSource for Positions
Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Limited (DSEL), the UK based investment banking joint venture owned by Daiwa Securities Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, has begun the implementation of the Financial Studio finance resource planning software from Financial Architects (FinArch). The implementation of the financial database is the second phase of DSEL’s far reaching project to…
IntellectSpace Releases FN Knowledge Mapping
IntellectSpace has introduced IntellectSpace FN Knowledge Mapping, a solution for investment banks and private equity firms that automatically discovers, analyzes, and visually maps key relationships among companies and people. IntellectSpace FN is an engine that draws on the SEC disclosures and corporate announcements to graphically represent the underlying relationships that can reveal both risk and…