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DTCC Board Elects Michael Bodson Chief Operating Officer
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that DTCC’s Board of Directors has elected Michael C. Bodson to the post of chief operating officer (COO), effective immediately. Bodson will also become president and chief operating officer of DTCC’s U.S. regulated subsidiaries, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) and the…
SIX Telekurs Expands its Evaluated Pricing Business
Responding to the more stringent demands of the latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and the increasing client need for transparency, SIX Telekurs has re-structured and expanded its Evaluated Pricing business. SIX Telekurs’ Evaluated Pricing is a solution which provides prices for a broad selection of fixed income instruments and derivatives, which are independent, transparent,…
JWG’s Di Giammarino Elaborates on Data Shortcomings of Industry’s Attempt to “Know Your Exposure”
Industry think tank JWG has just completed a research project into the industry’s level of preparation for the risk management challenges involved in the incoming tsunami of regulatory requirements that indicates a lot still needs to be done to get the right level of risk data consistency and accuracy. Conducted over the summer months and…
FSA’s Lawrence Warns Firms of the Importance of Accurate Funds Transfer Pricing for Risk Management
Enterprise risk management is at the heart of the funds transfer pricing (FTP) challenge, explained Colin Lawrence, director of the Prudential Risk Division of the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) to attendees at the JWG FTP event in London earlier this week. All risk types are closely linked and must be treated as such in…
Principia Adds Intex Performance Data to Structured Finance Platform
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance investments, today announced its integration of Intex performance data into the Principia Structured Finance Platform (Principia SFP). Intex Historical Collateral Performance Data for an extensive range of measures, including delinquency, loss and prepayment rates for over 23,000 Intex modelled RMBS, ABS, CMBS…
Instrument and Entity Identification are Key Issues for MiFID Forum’s Transaction Reporting Subject Group
Given the high profile fines that have been handed out over the last 12 months in the UK for data related transaction reporting failures, it is no surprise that the subject of entity and instrument identification is top of the list for the recently formed Transaction Reporting Subject Group of the MiFID Forum. Alan Jenkins,…
Netik Appoints Neicho as Head of Global Business Development
Netik, a global leading provider of financial data management and reporting services and products, announced today the appointment of Luke Neicho to the role of head of global business development. He will report directly to newly appointed John Mason, chief operating officer of Netik. Neicho joins from Eagle Investment Systems, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon,…
Euroclear and Broadridge Plan to Jointly Offer End to End Shareholder Voting
Broadridge Financial Solutions and Euroclear have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) whereby both firms are looking into forming an alliance to jointly strengthen shareholders’ governance rights by making it easier for investors to vote electronically at company general meetings. Under the EU Shareholders’ Rights Directive, currently being transposed into Member State law, investors must…
Omgeo Names Matthews COO, Appoints Friel as Executive Director of Service Availability
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced that Steve Matthews has been named chief operating officer (COO) to lead the product, client operations and technology functions at Omgeo. In addition, Pete Friel, former vice president of US Service operations at NYSE/Euronext, joins Omgeo as executive director of service availability. In his new role…
Société Générale Securities Services Mandated by the Paris branch of Credit Suisse Securities Europe to Provide Independent Pricing Services
Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) has been mandated by the Paris branch of Credit Suisse Securities Europe Limited to provide completely independent secondary pricing of structured products to a number of its institutional clients. This secondary pricing will thus enable them to meet increasingly rigorous regulatory requirements. SGSS has over five years experience in the…