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Omgeo Launches New Omgeo ALERT Capabilities to Drive Settlement Instruction Data Quality
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the availability of new Omgeo ALERT functionality, SI Compliance Scan. Omgeo ALERT is the world’s largest and most compliant web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of settlement and account instructions (SI). With this new functionality, users can measure the quality of SI data by…
SunGard to Offer Same Day Securities Lending Data
SunGard is now offering same day securities lending data through SunGard’s Astec Analytics Lending Pit solution, helping customers improve price discovery, increase profitability and decrease risk. Broker-dealers and lending agents currently rely on data that is at least one to two days old, making it difficult to monitor the fast moving securities lending market or…
EFAMA Elects Mr Claude Kremer as its New President
EFAMA, the European Fund and Asset Management Association, has announced today that Mr Claude Kremer was elected President of EFAMA for a two-year term. The election of the new EFAMA head took place in Lucerne during the Annual General Meeting. The representatives of the European investment management industry also appointed two Vice-Presidents, Mr Christian Dargnat…
Reval Poll Shows Most End-User Costs Would Increase to Comply with Dodd-Frank
In a live webinar poll last week hosted by Reval, the premiere Software-as-a-Service provider for financial risk management, 68 percent of non-financial end-users of derivatives said that they do not have a Credit Support Annex (CSA) in place with counterparties to their OTC derivative contracts, indicating potential cost impacts for key compliance requirements expected under…
EFETnet’s and DTCC Selected by Industry to Develop Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository
EFETnet and DTCC Deriv/SERV (DTCC), announced that the two at-cost, user governed industry cooperatives are collaborating with market participants in the commodities industry to establish a global Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository. The proposed new repository, which will be domiciled in Europe and jointly owned by DTCC and EFETnet, follows EFETnet and DTCC being selected by…
Six Industry Associations Raise Concerns About Privacy of SIFI Data, Ask for More Time for Input on Requirements
The criteria surrounding regulatory assessments for firms that are to be considered systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) have proved controversial over recent months, but the most recent industry furore seems to be about what happens to the data about these firms once it has been collected. This week, six industry associations wrote a letter to…
SAS’ Rogers Talks up the Data Detail Store Layer in its Risk Management Platform, Signals Imminent Capital Markets Focused Developments
Risk management solution provider SAS has this week launched the latest iteration of its risk management platform, which features a data integration layer that has been dubbed the SAS Detail Data Store (DDS) for Banking and aims to act as an intermediary between data warehouses and the risk analytics function. David Rogers, global product marketing…
Eze Castle’s Keller Elaborates on Why There’s Room for One More EDM Solution Provider
The enterprise data management (EDM) solution vendor community has been going through something of an evolution over recent years and many of the incumbent vendors have been branching out further downstream into other areas of the data lifecycle, so it’s surprising to see a new entrant on the scene. However, this week, ConvergEx owned Eze…
Paul Hawkins Joins Credit Suisse As Global Head Of Commodities
Credit Suisse announced today that Paul Hawkins will join the bank as a Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities in August, 2011. Mr Hawkins will be responsible for further developing the bank’s commodities business globally. He will be based in London and report to Gael de Boissard and Tony Ehinger, Co-Heads of Global Securities….
Jan Stuart and Andy Shaw to Join Credit Suisse’s Commodities Research Group within Fixed Income Research
Credit Suisse today announced that Jan Stuart and Andy Shaw will join Credit Suisse’s Fixed Income Research Department as Head of Energy Research, and Head of Base Metals Research, respectively. Effective September 1, Mr. Stuart will be based in New York, while Mr. Shaw will be based in Singapore and join in late July. Both…