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S&P Further Enhances ABSXchange Loan Analytics Platform
Following enhancements made to ABSXchange, S&P’s structured finance and whole loan analytics platform, European ABS market participants will be able to perform more robust analysis of structured finance and whole loan transactions. The latest release of ABSXchange introduces a series of enhancements to the platform’s portfolio analysis capabilities and a new collateral analytics module which…
Dans Le Port d’Amsterdam
Earlier this month, Swift released its programme for the conference behemoth that is Sibos, this year to be held between 25 and 29 October in Amsterdam. The industry owned financial network operator has indicated that it will be focusing on the three Rs it believes to be the most important to the market at the…
LSE Adds Yet More to its UnaVista Platform by Adding Support for FIX and XML
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is certainly keen to add all the bells and whistles necessary to attract the maximum number of customers to its flagship post-trade platform UnaVista. Following the move of its transaction reporting service onto the platform earlier this month, the exchange operator has now added support for FIX and XML standards…
FactSet Announces Everywhere Access with FactSet Connect
As part of their mission to provide industry-leading workflow solutions to investment professionals worldwide, FactSet Research Systems today announced that users can now access FactSet’s powerful analytics and broad scope of data from virtually any computer, anywhere in the world. FactSet is a leading provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications to the global…
IOSCO Publishes Principles on Cross Border Supervisory Cooperation, Including Proactive Data Sharing Requirements
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a set of Principles Regarding Cross-Border Supervisory Cooperation developed by its Technical Committee’s Task Force on Supervisory Cooperation, which recommends a more proactive approach to data sharing between regulators. The recommendations include the ability for regulators to obtain information from third party jurisdictions at will in…
DTCC’s Childs and Thieke Discuss GCA VS Upgrade Milestones for 2010
Along with the barrage of other corporate actions vendor updates this week, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced that it has added data on scheduled payments on around 2.4 million bonds held by the Fed to its Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS). The corporate actions data cleansing vendor is also currently…
IIF Calls for Set up of International Task Force to Tackle Cross-Border Resolution; Legal Entity Experts Needed
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), which includes members from the world’s largest financial institutions and is headed by chief exec of Deutsche Bank Josef Ackerman, has called for the establishment of a G20 led task force to tackle the issues involved in establishing internationally agreed cross border resolution agreements. The crack team will need…
Automated Outsourcing Services Signs up to SIX Telekurs’ Pricing & Corporate Actions Services
Automated Outsourcing Services (AOS), a Johannesburg-based independent third party fund administration company, has signed an agreement to use SIX Telekurs’ Intraday Pricing Service (IPS) and Corporate Actions Reports Service (CARS) in order to price their clients’ instruments and to support the servicing of their client’s assets: a mixture of equity and forex positions. Director of…
European Commission Adopts Draft Mandate for EU-US Data Protection Agreement
Following months of negotiations, the European Commission has finally published a draft mandate to negotiate a personal data protection agreement between the European Union and the United States when cooperating to fight terrorism or crime. European politicians, including Viviane Reding, the EU’s Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, are keen that bulk data transfers…
Northern Trust Supports Fair Value NAV Pricing for EMEA Clients
Northern Trust has implemented a daily Fair Value NAV Pricing tool for its fund management and institutional clients in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Through an automated system, Northern Trust can fair value securities on a daily basis to deliver NAV (net asset value) unit prices significantly reducing opportunities for market timing in different…