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IOSCO Highlights Dark Pool Post-trade Data Gaps, Lack of Global Venue Identification Standards

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published its principles for the global dark pool community, which highlights the high degree of disparity across the post-trade data environment for these venues. In particular, it notes the lack of a common venue identification standard and trade reporting processes. IOSCO, which has also been working on…

Former EMC and Tieto Executive Willem Hendrickx Joins Miradore as Advisor

Miradore, an innovative provider of automated IT asset management services, today announced the appointment of Willem Hendrickx as Advisor. He will have a key role in challenging and supporting Miradore’s executive team through an aggressive phase of international growth. The recently introduced Miradore 3.0 provides IT management with a single dashboard view and remote access…

Otkritie Appoints Eleven for New International Team

Otkritie, one of the largest financial groups and leading providers of high frequency trading solutions in Russia, has hired a team of eleven to bolster its expanding fixed income and strategy department. The appointments coincide with the latest Thomson Reuters Extel results, which focus on excellence in investment banking and asset management as voted by…

Linedata Appoints APAC MD

Sally Crane has joined Linedata in June 2011 as Managing Director, responsible for growing Linedata’s business in Asia. Key responsibilities include business development, delivery and strategy, as well as oversight for the Hong Kong office. Prior to that, Sally was Regional Director for FactSet Pacific in Hong Kong, after moving to Asia in 1997. During…

ANZ Global Markets to Use GBST’s Syn~

GBST, a global provider of technology services to the financial services industry, announces today that it has signed a long term agreement with ANZ for the deployment of GBST’s securities transaction platform, Syn~, for the ANZ Global Markets business. ANZ will use GBST’s Syn~ platform as a complete post trade middle and back office solution….

Banks Being Pushed Towards a More Formalised Approach to Risk Management, Say Barclays’ Hayward and BNP Paribas’ Carette

The desire to restore trust and confidence in the market has become the driving force behind much of the investment that has gone into risk management systems, according to Bill Hayward, director of regulatory risk and group risk for Barclays Bank. Speaking at last week’s SAS user conference in Antwerp, Hayward joined Ivan Carette, director…

S&P’s Pagliaro Elaborates on the Details of its Valuations and Risk Partnership with Sapient

Earlier this month, Sapient Global Markets and Standard and Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies (S&P VRS) signed a partnership agreement to provide their respective client bases with greater data and risk and pricing analysis capabilities for structured finance products. Reference Data Review speaks to David Pagliaro, senior director at Structured Finance Solutions for S&P VRS, about what…

Kinetic Partners Hire Kevin Huby

Kevin Huby has been appointed a Member at Kinetic Partners to focus on building the firm’s risk management and remediation services. This new appointment will complement and significantly strengthen Kinetic Partners’ highly regarded regulation and compliance service offering. Kevin joins Kinetic Partners from Ernst & Young, where he established and led a team focusing on…

Moody’s Analytics Introduces Sovereign Correlations to RiskFrontier 3.0

Moody’s Analytics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions, today announced the release of RiskFrontier 3.0, the latest version of its credit portfolio management and economic capital calculation solution. This release features a new sovereign risk correlation model that enables financial institutions to better quantify and manage the sovereign risk exposure in their portfolios. The…

EDM Council Plans Fee-based Data Quality Rulebook, Ramps up Semantics Proof of Concept Work

The EDM Council has this month indicated that it is considering a new fee-based service that would provide members with data quality rules that firms could embed in their quality review processes. The idea has gone to the association’s board for approval and if it receives the green light, will be discussed with the membership…