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SIX Telekurs White Paper: Transparency in Evaluated Pricing
In an effort to help bring clarity and understanding about transparency in evaluated pricing, SIX Telekurs is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper that describes our thoughts and practices. The paper will be discussed publicly for the first time in a workshop at the upcoming A-Team “Data Management for Risk, Analytics…
CFTC and SEC Describe Data Focused Investment Plans for 2012, CFTC Establishes Data Standardisation Subcommittee
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have once again testified before the Senate regarding requests for an increase in their budgets for next year, including US$66 million earmarked by the CFTC for technology and US$78 million for the same on the part of the SEC. During his testimony,…
Swift Selects Sword FircoSoft to Support New Centralised Sanctions Screening Service
Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, has selected Sword FircoSoft to provide components of its new centralised Sanctions Screening service. Economic sanctions are growing in importance as a tool to fight financial crime. As a consequence, complying with evolving sanctions regulations and frequently updated lists…
Financial Industry Trade Associations Coalition Releases Framework for a Global Legal Entity Identifier System
A coalition of financial-services trade associations today released a comprehensive set of requirements for establishing a legal entity identifier (LEI) system to aid regulators and industry in monitoring systemic risk. The Trade Associations note that the requirements document released today is meant to be an evolving solution that will be refined as others participate in…
Sifma Led Financial Association Coalition Provides OFR with a Wish List for the LEI, Sets 30 May Deadline
The 13 strong, Sifma led coalition of industry associations involved in providing feedback to the regulatory community regarding the establishment of a new global legal entity identification standard has finally produced its comprehensive list of requirements for the ID. The group has also set a deadline of the end of this month (30 May) for…
ISO Selects Swift as its Registration Authority for the New LEI Over Other Bidder ANNA
After months of jumping through the requisite hoops, industry network provider Swift has beaten the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to the punch and has been selected as the registration authority for ISO’s new 20 character legal entity ID code, which is currently in draft format. The standards setting body is currently in the…
More Formal Management of Instrument Valuation Needed, Says Xenomorph
Xenomorph, the analytics and data management solutions provider to global financial institutions, has today released its white paper “Instrument Valuation Management: management of derivative and fixed income valuations in a multi-asset, multi-model, multi-data source and multi-timeframe environment”. The white paper expands on the “Rates, Curves and Surfaces – Golden Copy Management of Complex Datasets” white…
CFTC Releases Draft Implementation Proposals, Data Reporting Timelines are a Key Consideration
Following on from the decision last week to give the industry an extra 30 days in which to provide feedback on the majority of its recent proposals, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released a short consultation paper concerning the phased implementation timelines for the swaps component of the Dodd Frank rules, which highlights…
State Street Vision Report Examines the Impact of Regulatory Change Within Europe’s Investment Management Industry
State Street Corporation today released the latest of its Vision Focus reports which identifies trends within the European investment management sector. Entitled, “The Changing Shape of European Investment Management,” the report examines the wave of new regulation worldwide and its impact on business practices and operating models. According to the report, regulatory efforts have shifted…
Is the OFR Biting Off More Than it Can Chew?
Serious concerns have been raised about the capacity of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) to be able to effectively process and number crunch the high volumes of reference and economic data that it will receive from the industry in order to monitor systemic risk. The influx of data inputs could potentially overwhelm the…