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UK FSA Reveals More About Plans for Soft Launch of Gabriel Liquidity Reporting, Pushes Back Data Quality Testing
During its most recent firms forum on the subject of liquidity reporting, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) confirmed that it is planning a soft launch for liquidity risk reporting on its online regulatory reporting system, Gathering Better Regulatory Information Electronically (Gabriel). As noted by the FSA in January, firms are being required to test…
DST Global Solutions Strengthens Client Relationship Strategy with Key Hires
DST Global Solutions, a provider of business solutions and services to the global investment management industry, has enhanced its client relationship strategy with the appointment of two senior global account managers. Michael Walsh joins DST Global Solutions from State Street Corporation, where he headed up the company’s UK MEA Investor Services business. A qualified accountant,…
SmartStream’s DClear Utilities Launches On Demand Data Dictionary Portal
As part of its wider bid to take on the reference data utility space, SmartStream Technologies has this week launched an on demand portal for access to verified and cleansed exchange and data provider documentation. John Mason, CEO of DClear, explains to Reference Data Review that although the Data Dictionary will form an integral part of the…
Risk Data Challenges Being Exacerbated by “List of Regulatory Unknowns”, Agree FS Club Panellists
The level of uncertainty in the industry due to the ongoing debate within the regulatory community with regards to new risk management reporting requirements has proved to be both a blessing and a curse to those in the data business. Panellists at this month’s FS Club agreed that the industry is being forced to take…
PolarLake has Netted Eight New Clients This Year, Launches Reference Data Policy Engine
Commensurate with the current trend towards an uptick in investment in data management solutions this year, PolarLake’s CEO John Randles indicates that eight new clients have signed on the dotted line so far in 2010. The vendor has also just launched its PolarLake Reference Data Policy Engine, which Randles says is aimed at affording end…
Basel II and the Law of Unintended Consequence: Leading to Direct Financial Benefit
By Rick Wilson, vice president of product strategy for Trillium Software Not every result from the ‘law of unintended consequences” is a negative outcome. For example, it’s unlikely that the Basel regulations, set up to monitor the accuracy of financial performance reporting, were implemented with the deliberate intention of improving banks’ bottom lines. But that…
UK FSA Indicates BIC Codes are Needed for all Transaction Reporting Firms, Defers AII System Launch Indefinitely
This month, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has indicated that transaction reporting firms under MiFID will need to obtain a bank identifier code (BIC) in order to be in compliance with wider European level regulations. Firms will have to apply to Swift for a BIC before they email the transactions monitoring unit (TMU) with…
Interactive Data Provides Independent Evaluations for GNMA Reverse Mortgage-Backed Securities
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business is now providing daily independent evaluations for fixed-rate reverse mortgage-backed securities (HMBS) issued under the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) programme. This programme is designed to provide liquidity…
DTCC Policy for Releasing CDS Data to Global Regulators
The DTCC Trade Information Warehouse for credit derivatives is a user-governed, not-for-profit cooperative that provides a registry of the details of virtually all outstanding credit default swaps traded globally. The Warehouse currently holds data on roughly 2.3 million contracts from trading counterparties located in 52 countries, covering credit obligations of entities located in more than…
Fed’s Tarullo Once Again Champions Resolution Plans, BCBS Publishes New Recommendations on Subject: Data Challenges in Spotlight
Regular readers of Reference Data Review should be no strangers to the data and practical implementation challenges of resolution, or living wills, regulations that are the talk of the town at the moment. After all, US Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo is just one of the high profile regulators that has been grandstanding about them…