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Mellon Capital Has Opted for Eagle’s Data Management Platform to Better Manage Risk, Says Lillard

BNY Mellon owned asset management firm Mellon Capital Management has opted to rollout Eagle Investment Systems’ data management platform in order to help the firm better manage risk and regulatory change, according to Linda Lillard, deputy chief operating officer at Mellon Capital. The San Francisco-based firm is already using Eagle’s performance measurement and attribution system…

Ball is in Swift’s Court to Convince of the Benefits of the BIC as an LEI, Says SEB’s Strandberg

Christine Strandberg, global product manager at SEB Global Transaction Services, reckons Swift has a job to do to convince the market of the benefits of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier. However, she is confident that due to the experience of the industry network operator in the standards development process, Swift…

CESR Reaches Out to Credit Ratings Agencies to Elaborate on Data Requirements for New Repositories

Following the passing of the European Parliament and Council Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies (EC 1060/2009) at the end of last year, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has been charged with setting in place a new reporting regime for ratings agencies to provide information on the historical performance of their credit ratings issued…

SEB’s Strandberg is Unsure About the Benefits of XBRL for Corporate Actions STP

Some in the market may be convinced of the benefits of XBRL for the entire corporate actions process (see our interview with BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s Paul Bodart for example), but not everyone agrees that it is the key to increasing end to end straight through processing (STP) in the space. Christine Strandberg, global product…

Industry Groups Petition Against CESR’s Proposed Client Categorisation Regime Changes Under MiFID

Industry groups and associations including the Alternative Investment Management Association (Aima), the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Futures and Options Association (FOA) have all indicated that they do not wish the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) to push ahead with its proposed changes to the MiFID client categorisation regime as…

Mellon Capital Selects Eagle’s Data Management Solution Following Successful Performance Project

Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, today announced that Mellon Capital Management Corporation has selected Eagle’s data management platform in addition to the vendor’s performance measurement and attribution system currently in operation. Improved data management remains a priority for investment managers as the financial services industry…

Tullett Prebon’s OTC Valuations Opens Sales and Client Service Offices in London and New York

Tullett Prebon today announces that OTC Valuations Ltd (OTC Val), its technology driven services firm providing independent price verification services to clients globally, has opened sales and client service offices in London and New York. The openings mark an immediate expansion of the business, following the recent acquisition of Vancouver based OTC Val by Tullett…

Broadridge Signs Agreement to Acquire NewRiver

Broadridge Financial Solutions announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire NewRiver, a leader in electronic investor disclosure solutions, for approximately US$77 million. The merger agreement, which was signed last night, has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, and the transaction is expected to close in August subject to…

End is in Sight for Swift’s Lean Programme, But is it Fighting Fit?

Ahead of this year’s Sibos in Amsterdam and following the approval of the 2015 strategy, I have been asking people what they think of Swift and its new five year plan. The most obvious concern for most of the market seems to boil down to one thing: cost. Whatever you think of its new, more…

Opinion: Bridging the Counterparty Risk Gap

By Xavier Bellouard, co-founder at Quartet FS With the European stress testing exercise this summer casting a further spotlight on the industry, financial institutions across Europe are continuing to grapple with risk management. In particular, counterparty risk exposure is under the spotlight after coming to the fore during the demise of Lehman’s. While the majority…