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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…
Asia is Much Further Ahead in Terms of Corporate Actions Standardisation Than the Middle East and Africa, Says StanChart’s Davies
The Asia Pacific region has come a long way over the last few years in terms of corporate actions standardisation and best practice adoption, according to Mark Davies, head of investors and intermediaries at Standard Chartered Bank in Europe. Although it is often lumped in with markets such as the Middle East and Africa, the…
Talend Appoints Vice President of Indirect Channels
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Keith Goldstein has been appointed to the position of vice president of indirect channels. In his new role, Goldstein will be responsible for managing globally Talend’s network of systems integrator and consulting partners, expanding Talend’s presence internationally via resellers, and further developing Talend’s OEM channel….
S&P Provide More Data for US Securities
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies announced the addition of a new intra-day pricing snapshot for US taxable securities. Delivered via Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations (SPSE), a leading provider of independent evaluations, the new intra-day report – delivered at 12:30 PM ET daily – provides a real-time snapshot of market-derived pricing for over 1.5 million…
Virginie’s Blog – Does Corporate Actions Data Have a Place in a Utility?
The same old discussions about STP and standardisation in the corporate actions space may play out year after year (see my recent blog on which here), but one interesting (and newer, if not entirely new) idea discussed at last week’s CorpActions 2011 conference was the concept of corporate actions event data being stored in a…
SmartStream Supports Regulatory Reporting Requirements with New TLM Solution for Archiving Historic Transaction
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced the launch of TLM Archive, a new tool that delivers long-term storage and retrieval of transaction data to aid regulatory reporting requirements. The efficient management of transaction data has been an issue for many firms as regulators increase the time that historical data must be stored…