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CME Group Appoints Ex-LCH.Clearnet’s Lamb to Head European CCP
As LCH.Clearnet transfers its credit default swap (CDS) clearing counterparty (CCP) ambitions from BClear to Paris-based Clearnet, arch rival CME Group has hired its ex-CEO Andrew Lamb to lead its own European CCP venture. Lamb assumes the role of CEO for CME Clearing Europe, subject, of course, to its approval by Financial Services Authority to…
FCAG Says Mark to Market Rules Not to Blame for Procyclical Nature of Market
The Financial Crisis Advisory Group (FCAG) has released its final report indicating that mark to market accounting standards did not fuel the procyclicality of the market. The group, which is the joint effort between the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), established to tackle accounting standards in the…
The ECB’s Reference Data Utility: Evidently a Controversial Topic…
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) proposed reference data utility seems to have caught the attention of a lot of Reference Data Review readers out there. While most are in support of standardisation in the reference data space in general, many are confused and, frankly, concerned about what the ECB is planning. On reader in particular,…
Aim Software and Interactive Data Launch Sixth Edition of the Aim Global Reference Data and Risk Management Survey
Aim Software today announced the launch of its sixth international reference data and risk management survey. It is designed to provide insights into the trends, challenges and planned investments for reference data automation and risk management in 2009. The survey is sponsored by Interactive Data (Europe). As the global financial markets become accustomed to a…
The FSA’s Incoming Liquidity Regime: What Will it Mean for Data Management?
The compliance departments and senior managers of those affected by the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) incoming liquidity reporting regime have finally begun to sit up and take notice of its implications, but what does it all mean for the data management community? When it was announced at the end of last year in an…
Baikal Rolls Out UnaVista for Reconciliations and Confirmation Matching
Baikal, the London Stock Exchange Group’s pan-European dark pool and liquidity aggregation service, this month began using UnaVista, the group’s generic hosted matching, reconciliation and data integration service. As part of Baikal’s phased roll out, solutions were needed for end of day exchange reconciliations with central counterparties, and for automation of post-trade client confirmations. UnaVista…
CESR Elaborates on OTC Derivatives Identifiers for Transaction Reporting
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has published a consultation paper recommending the adoption a set of identifiers and classifications for OTC derivatives for the purpose of including those instruments in the exchange of transaction reports amongst CESR members. These reports are currently exchanged between regulatory authorities via an IT system, dubbed the Transaction…
XtremeData Leapfrogs Competitors with a New Breed of Appliances for Database Analytics
XtremeData, an innovator providing solutions to large data analytics and complex computing problems, today announced the general availability of dbX™. The dbX family represents the next generation in database appliances designed specifically for the unconstrained analysis and exploration of large data sets. The product is a fully-integrated platform and features patented SQL in Silicon™ hardware…
Pricing Partners’ Stochastic Volatility Model to be Discussed at Scientific Conference
Pricing Partners’ latest research about the acceleration by a factor 100, calculating the price of financial options with a stochastic volatility model, has caught the attention of the scientific committee, the 33rd edition of the Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (SPA 2009) Conference, and will be presented during the week of this conference in Berlin…
TFX to Publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index Price Data on Website
Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has announced that it will publish Markit iTraxx Japan Index price data on its website from 27 July 2009. TFX has previously contributed to the development of the Japanese credit markets by publishing credit default swap (CDS) reference rates on its website. By publishing data on the Markit iTraxx Japan Index,…