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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…
Issuers Won’t Adopt Standards Without a Solid Business Case and Market-wide Agreement, Says Computershare’s Sarkar
The issuer community is wary of adopting new standards without a solid business case and before the rest of the industry has agreed on which standard is best, said Naz Sarkar, CEO of issuer agent firm Computershare Investor Services, at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference. Sarkar defended the position of issuers, who are frequently criticised…
Citi Whitepaper Outlines the Top Five Issues OTC Derivative Investors Must Plan for in the Wake of Dodd-Frank Reforms
Citi announced today that it has released a new whitepaper that outlines the top five issues that OTC Derivative investors must plan for in the wake of Dodd-Frank reforms. “Ready or Not? Here It Comes: OTC Derivatives in the Post-Dodd-Frank Landscape – Implications for Investment Managers,” describes the challenges facing investment managers across operations and…
Panellists Note the Lack of a Global Initiative for Proxy Voting Standardisation
There may be a number of national initiatives focused on standardising proxy voting practices in individual countries, but there are no global efforts to harmonise these practices across borders, agreed panellists at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London. Justin Chapman, global head of process management at Northern Trust, suggested that some engagement at an…
Mr. René Anger Leaves Pricing Partners
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that after five years of collaboration between Pricing Partners and René Anger, its previously CTO, have agreed to part the company. Mr Eric Benhamou stated: “We thank René for his contribution to Pricing Partners. We wish him success…