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OFR’s Ref Data Could be a Cyber Attack Target, Warns Sans Institute’s Paller
As well as coming under attack for its central theory of collecting data for systemic risk analysis during a government organised roundtable last week (see more on which here), the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) also came under fire for the potential information security threat it could pose. Alan Paller, founder and research director…
New Chairman of the ABFA
The Asset Based Finance Association has announced the appointment of its new chairman, John Bevan, head of Trade and Working Capital UK & Ireland at Barclays Corporate. John has worked in the invoice finance industry for the past 16 years and been at Barclays Corporate since 2007 where he is responsible for growing the trade…
Deutsche Bank’s Scott and Northern Trust’s Chapman Highlight the Regulatory Deluge Facing Ops Teams in 2012
There are so many regulations facing the corporate actions and securities operations sector that back office teams may be hard pushed to get on with their day job, said Justin Chapman, global head of industry management, operations and technology at Northern Trust, at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London. Nick Scott, managing director and…
Carne Director Appointed to Board of Oddo Alternative Investment Fund
John Donohoe, CEO of Carne Financial Services Group, has been named as an independent director to the board of the brand new Oddo Asset Management fund, called Orsay Merger Arbitrage. The fund will follow an M&A arbitrage strategy, and will be managed by fund manager Christian Fleury, who headed the merger arbitrage team at Banque…
EC’s Barnier Indicates Will Not Go Ahead with Proposed Mark to Market Changes Before IASB Rules are Finalised
The European Commission’s EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier has publicly stated this week that Europe will not go ahead with the adoption of the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) proposed mark to market changes before the related accounting rules are finalised. The accounting standards body has been working on a redefinition of fair value…
US Treasury’s Berner Expounds on the Benefits of the OFR, Discusses the LEI and an Upcoming Conference on Data
This week, the US government organised a roundtable event to discuss the developments around tracking systemic risk and the establishment of the Office of Financial Research. Representing the OFR, Richard Berner, counsellor to the US Department of the Treasury’s Tim Geithner, championed the benefits of reference data standardisation, the recent progress made around setting legal…
Not Much Ado About …
Something or nothing? I guess it depends on one’s POV. I’m referring to today’s deadline for implementing SEC rule 15c3-5 – aka the Market Access Rule – which bans naked sponsored access. While parts of that rule – related to aggregated risk and covering fixed income securities – now do not need to be complied…
Kinetic Partners Hire Pierre Bourlatchka
Pierre Bourlatchka has been appointed a Director at Kinetic Partners and will join the risk management consulting and monitoring team in London. This new appointment will further enhance Kinetic Partners’ comprehensive service offering across the risk spectrum. Pierre joins Kinetic Partners from F&C Asset Management, where he worked for the Alternative Investment Market Risk team,…
Nationwide Financial Selects DST Global Solutions’ Anova Performance Solution
DST Global Solutions, a leading global provider of software technology and services to the investment management industry, today announced that Nationwide Financial has chosen DST’s Anova middle office investment analytics solution to strengthen its managed account performance measurement and reporting capabilities. The solution is designed to enable clients such as Nationwide to report managed account…
S&P Hires Ex-Thomson Reuters Data Consultant Nash for Enterprise Role
Standard & Poor’s has hired ex-Thomson Reuters EMEA and global head for its data consultancy business Penny Nash into its Enterprise Solutions team. Nash had been with Thomson Reuters since 2005 and has been involved in its data team and its corporate actions focused business lines over the course of her career at the data…