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SIX Telekurs Completes New Round of Expansion of its Global Real-Time Market Data Services
SIX Telekurs has added 35 sources of real-time market data from global exchanges, institutional contributors and financial news providers since the beginning of 2011. This expansion of services brings better access to market information in the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Northern Europe. The additional real-time sources, which include upgraded services…
BlueBay Asset Management Goes Live with Vermilion KIID Solution
BlueBay Asset Management Ltd (‘BlueBay’), a market leading asset management company, went live with Vermilion Software’s outsourced Key Investor Information Document (‘KIID’) reporting service, VRS KIID, in July 2011. This followed an extensive selection process, including the review of the other KIID reporting offerings in the market place. BlueBay selected Vermilion in April of this…
Developing a Benchmark for Latency
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) is the non-profit, global industry organisation focused on driving increased efficiencies and cost savings for the trading community. FPL is a membership-driven organisation that works closely with firms across the globe to develop standards that address the real business challenges impacting trading capabilities. The organisation has recently turned its attention to…
BI-SAM Releases B-One 3.3 Including the SRRI Calculation to Meet KIID Requirements
BI-SAM, a leading provider of data management, performance, attribution, risk, GIPS composites and reporting solutions for the global asset management industry, today announced the release of B-One 3.3, the latest version of its award- winning platform. B-One 3.3 enables performance and reporting teams to further optimise their production value chains and focuses on helping asset…
Growth in APAC Economies Drives Netik Expansion into Asia Pacific Region
Netik, the global leading provider of financial data creation, management and distribution services and solutions, announced today a key strategic move in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of its Hong Kong office. As part of Netik’s overall repositioning strategy and to complement their existing commercial centres in New York and London, the Hong…
SEC Names Kathleen Weiss Hanley as Deputy Chief Economist and Deputy Director of Riskfin
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Kathleen Weiss Hanley has been named Deputy Director and Deputy Chief Economist for the SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation (RiskFin). RiskFin was created in September 2009 to provide interdisciplinary analysis to help inform the Commission’s policymaking, rulemaking, enforcement, and examinations. The division encompasses the…
Cloud Industry Forum Joins Third Party Assurance Initiative
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) today announced it has partnered with the Third Party Assurance Centre (TPAC), a business assurance initiative, formed to help minimise outsourcing risks. Other industry bodies partnering with TPAC include the Information Security Forum, Cloud Security Alliance, Common Assurance Maturity Model, and the Payment Card Industry board of advisers. A recent…
BDO M&A Survey 2011 – Strong M&A Demand Hampered By “Valuation Gap”
BDO, the accountancy and business advisory firm, today released its annual M&A Survey, polling the views of CEOs and Financial Directors of mid-market companies1. Key findings included: 55% of companies that sought to make a transaction in the last 12 months failed to do so. On average one transaction has been completed for every eight…
IMS Responds to Government’s Money Laundering Consultation
The IMS Group (IMS), the compliance and regulation consultant, has today responded to the Government’s consultation on reviewing Money Laundering Regulations 2007. The consultation period closes on 30 August 2011. The Government’s proposals are intended to give businesses greater confidence to focus compliance on their highest risk areas and to discourage the tick-box approach taken…
Virginie’s Blog – Opinions on Xtrakter’s AII Ambitions
Last week, the trade matching and regulatory reporting solution vendor arm of Euroclear Xtrakter marked the official launch of its Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) compliant transaction reporting solution and indicated that it is hoping to net a significant share of the market (see our coverage of which. However, given initial reader response to the news,…