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UK FSA Highlights “Serious Weaknesses” Within Firms’ AML and Customer Data Management Practices
As part of its crackdown on the industry’s systems and controls around anti-money laundering (AML) data, especially for politically exposed persons (PEPs), which it stepped up last year, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has released the findings of a survey of these practices across the industry that highlights “serious weaknesses” in “many” firms. The…
Virginie’s Blog – OFR Plans to Staff up by September, But are Other Plans Afoot?
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) may have appointed all the industry reps it needs to its data standards subcommittee (see my earlier blog on which here), but the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) continues to lag in the appointment process – not least of which is the selection of a director. The agency’s…
Noel Donohoe Appointed DTCC’s New Group Chief Risk Officer
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced that it has named Noel Donohoe to a newly created position as Executive Managing Director and Group Chief Risk Officer. A financial services industry leader in global risk management, Donohoe will join DTCC in August, with responsibility for formulating and implementing DTCC¹s overall risk management strategy…
SimCorp Releases System Readiness Assessment for Dodd-Frank
SimCorp, a leading provider of highly specialised software and expertise for the investment industry, has released a white paper discussing the technology considerations a buy-side firm should take into account on its road to Dodd-Frank compliance. The paper, entitled: “Impact of Dodd-Frank on OTC Derivatives: Supporting Central Trading and Clearing” details SimCorp’s recommendations for preparing…
Delaying The Inevitable
Bowing to market pressure, it seems that the SEC has given the financial trading community a little extra time to implement certain aspects of the so-called Market Access Rule covering pre-trade risk. Instead of a July 14 deadline, trading firms, brokerages and exchanges now have a November 30 date to work to for implementing aggregate…
Allan Boardman, of London, Appointed Director of ISACA
Allan Boardman, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CA (SA), CISSP, information risk manager at JP Morgan (UK), was appointed director of ISACA—a global association serving 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its World Congress: INSIGHTS 2011 conference in Washington DC, USA, today. Founded in 1969, ISACA develops international standards for information systems…
UBS Hires John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution
UBS today announced the appointment of John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution, based in New York. Dyment will be responsible for the management and development of UBS’s strategically important hedge fund franchise, with global functional responsibility for sales, capital introduction and business consultancy services to the hedge fund community within Global Prime…
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Extends Relationship with SunGard’s FastVal
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), one of Europe’s leading banks, has extended its relationship with SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. SEB’s prime services offering will now broaden its instrument type coverage through its use of FastVal, when offering its clients an outsourced service for the valuation and risk…
Broadridge Enhances Investigo Solution with Customized Data Scrubbing Capabilities
Broadridge Financial Solutions, announced today the development of a flexible two-tier Data Scrubbing Service as an enhancement to its Investigo insurance and investment data aggregation solutions. This enhancement adds a flexible, rules-based, data scrubbing engine to the already robust aggregation capabilities of the Investigo solution. The new Investigo data scrubbing engine identifies unreconciled positions and…
Virginie’s Blog – Keeping an Eye on Google
I noted the announcement of Google’s participation in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s new data standards subcommittee this month with interest. Given its potential in the financial services market in the area of data management (in the cloud) and the experience it brings to the table, it’s a surprise that steps hadn’t been taken sooner…