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Frontier Expands its Investment Team
Frontier Investment Management (“Frontier”), the multi-asset and alternative investment specialist, has appointed Simon Liang as an analyst on its investment team. Simon joins from Bfinance UK, the investment consultant, where he provided analysis on fund managers and their investment strategies across all asset classes for institutional investors. In his new role at Frontier, Simon will…
UBS Launches UBS-MISTRAL Family of Innovative Active Interest Rate Indices
This week, UBS launches the Multi Indicator Short Term Rate Algorithm (UBS-MISTRAL) indices. Going beyond traditional trend following, UBS-MISTRAL identifies the underlying fundamental drivers of trends in interest rates, using a diversified set of leading indicators to take positions in interest rate futures. The indices are transparent to participating clients and will be published on…
Swift and DTCC Face a Long Road Towards LEI Implementation, Says Gresham’s Errington
Ahead of this year’s Sibos in Toronto and in light of its involvement in the Office of Financial Research’s (OFR) legal entity identification (LEI) standards project, Reference Data Review is speaking to a range of industry participants about Swift’s involvement in the entity ID space. Chris Errington, CEO of Gresham Computing, explains that the network provider is…
CFTC’s Data Standards Subcommittee Chair Kirilenko Doles Out ‘To Do’ Lists for Each of its Four Working Groups
As well as a public meeting on the subject of swaps data repositories, last week also saw the first meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) data standardisation subcommittee, which is chaired by CFTC chief economist Andrei Kirilenko. Attendees discussed the current obstacles to entity and product identification in the market, how international agreement…
Q&A: Cisco’s Dave Malik on New Nexus Switches and Trading Fabric Architectures
Earlier this year, Cisco Systems announced new switches focused firmly on the low-latency trading space, and along with them, it announced its Trading Fabric architecture, setting out how these switches, along with other components, can be deployed to solve real-life application challenges. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com checked in with Cisco’s director of solutions architecture Dave Malik to get some…
ISDA Publishes Analysis of Counterparty Credit Risk Management in the US OTC Derivatives Markets
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today published a new analysis of counterparty credit risk management in the US over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. The paper examines the extent of counterparty credit losses and notes the efficacy of credit mitigation techniques in the US banking system. The paper states that according to reports published…
Broadridge Financial Solutions, the Nation’s Largest Investor Communications Company Saves Corporate Issuers More Than $508 Million This Proxy Season
Broadridge Financial Solutions, the nation’s largest investor communications company, estimates that it saved corporate issuers an unprecedented $508 million this proxy season, compared to $446 million during last year’s proxy season, through the use of its cutting-edge technologies. Broadridge achieved these estimated cost savings while processing 12 billion more shares than a year ago. “Broadridge’s…
CFTC Commissioner O’Malia Raises His Data Ownership Qualms About Swaps Data Repositories and Tech Challenges
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Scott O’Malia certainly hasn’t been shy of speaking out about the serious challenges that lie ahead of the regulator as it seeks to introduce new swaps data repositories and related rules, and this week he added data ownership issues to his list of concerns. Speaking during a public discussion…
Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters Q2 Results Highlight Endurance of Pricing and Ref Data Space
If Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters’ second quarter results are anything to go by, it seems that the data vendor community is more than adequately making ends meet in terms of its traditional reference data and pricing offerings. Interactive Data had a strong second quarter performance in spite of its ownership change at the end…
New Report Calls for Banking Community to Define Regulatory Data Standards to Control Spiralling Compliance Costs
A new preliminary report launched today titled ‘Strong Foundations for Regulatory Reform?’ finds that the monetary implications for financial services firms that fail to establish a more consistent data management plan can be immense. While there is currently no public sector assessment of the cost to comply, initial research studies suggest it will be in…