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CFTC Appoints Veteran Rogers as Chief of its New Office of Data and Technology
In line with its increased focus on monitoring the data underlying the swaps markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has this week indicated that it will be establishing a new Office of Data and Technology for launch in October and has appointed CFTC veteran of 10 years John Rogers as its new director. Rogers,…
Speed Bumps Ahead for FAST?
That might be the case for the FIX Adapted for Streaming (FAST) protocol, should a little known company with a litigious streak win the day. According to information that recently came to light, Realtime Data – which also does business as IXO – is in patent litigation with a number of banks, exchanges and market…
DataFlux Announces the First Annual Data Stewards Day and Inaugural “Stewie” Awards
DataFlux , a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the first annual Data Stewards Day. This initiative was created in collaboration with the Data Roundtable news site and will be celebrated on 11th October 2011. In recognition of the integral role of data stewardship in facilitating enterprise data management and governance, the Data…
UK FSA Provides More Derivatives Transaction Reporting Data Details, Including Cleared Derivatives Reporting Requirements
Last month, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) launched its Zen transaction reporting and market surveillance system for the collection of Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) codes and has opened a four month window for firms to adopt the codes ahead of the November deadline. Accordingly, this month’s FSA Market Watch newsletter is focused on providing market…
How Will the FSB’s Shadow Banking Taskforce Tackle the Data Standards Issue?
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has recently indicated that its shadow banking taskforce is working on some recommendations for strengthening the oversight of the non-bank systemically important sector, which will necessarily require these firms to provide detailed legal entity structural and hierarchical data to the regulatory community. But how will the community tackle the oversight…
SWIFT Looks to Fill “Payment Gap” Worth Billions of Euros, Caused by Poor Reference Data
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, today announced the launch of SWIFTRef, a family of products that aims to eliminate costly payment errors arising from bad data, and increase straight-through-processing (STP). Thirty percent of non-STP payments are caused by bad reference data, and with manual…
DataContent and Hat Trick Software Announce Exclusive Joint Venture and the Release of DataCompass
DataContent and Hat Trick Software today announced an exclusive joint venture partnership together with the launch of DataCompass, a new software capability providing financial institutions with superior information and market data management. DataCompass tracks and identifies data utilisation by all users and applications within an organisation irrespective of data source or delivery mechanism. Michael Paull,…
Quality of Regulatory Authorities More Important Than Structure, BBA Tells Parliamentary Committee
The UK’s new financial regulators will need clear lines of responsibility and the right statutory objectives if they are to meet their intended aims, the BBA has told the joint committee of MPs and Lords scrutinising the new Financial Services Bill. More important than the new regulatory structure will be clarity in the chain of…
The IMS Group Appoints Three New Compliance Consultants
The IMS Group (IMS), the compliance and regulation consultancy, has appointed three new compliance consultants. The new hires are Diana Stevens, Cynthia Griffith and Daniel Sharpe. Diana joins IMS from multi-billion dollar hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management, L.P, where she assumed the day to day coverage of compliance in its London branch. Her areas…
Matthias Scheiber Joins Multi-Asset Investment Team as Fund Manager
Schroders continues to strengthen its £35 billion FUM Multi-Asset business with the appointment of Matthias Scheiber*. Matthias starts at Schroders on 8th September 2011, joining a team of over 60 multi-asset investment professionals globally and will report to the Head of Multi-Asset Investments, Johanna Kyrklund. Matthias has eleven years of investment experience across the industry….