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Swift Imposes Structure on MiFID Transaction Reporting Data
Swift is close to completing an ISO 20022 formatted transaction reporting message which it plans to pilot for three months on its network prior to launching a commercially available solution by the end of October in readiness for the November 1 Markets in Financial Services Directive (MiFID) implementation deadline. As an ISO standard, the message…
Who’s Ready for SEPA? By Andrew Foulds, head of client services, CB.Net
As the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) deadline looms, there is a sense of panic growing among organisations, many of which are not prepared for the significant changes that will be required for payment processes. While corporates may be aware of the EU Directive and SEPA’s impending 2008 deadline, many have yet to devise a…
Worried About IBEI and MiFID? Don’t Be… By Georg Eisel, Managing Director, WM Datenservice
As markets coalesce across systems and nations, the financial industry is faced with a new challenge. Thanks to new information technology, products and services are more integrated than ever. EU legislation, such as Basel II, the Transparency Directive and MiFID, is on the increase. It is now incumbent upon the financial industry to come to…
Ascend Launches Checker to Address IBAN/BIC Requirements
Cross-border payments specialist Ascend Global Solutions has added Checker to its suite of J2EE products. Checker is a web-based tool designed specifically to mitigate the effect of the recent BIC to IBAN initiative, which requires that all euro payments must have valid branch and account numbers to avoid the risk of rejection and penalty charges….
Capco, Systar Ally for Real-Time Monitoring of Client Lifecycle
Capco and Systar have joined forces to provide financial institutions with real-time and intraday monitoring environments that will sit on top of Capco’s client lifecycle management (CLM) solution. Users will have access to real-time data to monitor their CLM processes. Says Nick Jackson, partner at Capco: “We already have a managed service offering to which…
CounterpartyLink Upgrades Compliance Product for MiFID
CounterpartyLink has upgraded its compliance data product to address the requirements of MiFID and the Third EU Money Laundering Directive, both of which come into effect in November this year. Although each of the new directives has its own specific requirements, there are some common themes around the need to adopt a risk-based approach to…
Swift Gears Up for CIVICs, Nears Selection of Data Partners
As it evaluates third party database solutions and prepares to select a partner or partners to bolster its data gathering and validation capabilities, bank-owned messaging services provider Swift is making progress towards the creation of a directory of collective investment vehicle identification codes (CIVICs) based on the bank identifier code (BIC). However it is resolute…
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…