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Pricing Control and Data Governance for Valuations is High on Industry Agenda, Says PaceMetrics’ Severs
Given the regulatory focus on increased transparency, financial institutions are putting much more emphasis on “control and influence” of valuations data, according to Dick Severs, senior buy side consultant at EDM solution vendor PaceMetrics. Severs, who joined the vendor in 2009 from ING Investment Management, reckons investment in pricing control and data governance by fund…
Moody’s Corporation Elects Carlton Charles Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Operational Risk Officer
Moody’s Corporation announced today that Carlton Charles has been promoted to senior vice president, treasurer and chief operational risk officer, for the Corporation. As the head of the global corporate treasury group, Charles manages the company’s financial risk, oversees funding activities, monitors the performance of retirement plan assets, oversees Moody’s share repurchase program and manages…
Moody’s Corporation Names Salli Schwartz Vice President, Investor Relations
Moody’s Corporation announced today that Salli Schwartz, who previously served as interim head of Investor Relations, has been named vice president, Investor Relations p. She is responsible for outreach to Moody’s current and prospective shareholders and management of Moody’s Investor Relations team. “Salli’s substantial industry experience and extensive knowledge of Moody’s global business strategy will…
Regulation is Driving the Industry Towards a Utility Approach to Market Data Infrastructure, Says HSBC’s Dean
Regulatory change is pushing the industry towards a central utility model for market and real-time data, according to Alan Dean, global head of cross asset FIX connectivity at HSBC Global Banking and Markets. Speaking at A-Team Group’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (BTLLT) event in London this week, Dean indicated that the onslaught of…
Only 12% of Buy Side Firms Ready for Data Requirements of Incoming Regulation, According to MoneyMate Survey
The buy side has a long way to go before it is ready for the regulatory onslaught it is facing over the next few years in terms of making its data management preparations, if recent figures from a MoneyMate survey of around 50 investment managers are to be believed. Only 12% of respondents indicated that…
BNY Mellon Appoints Stephen Lackey as Chairman of Asia Pacific
BNY Mellon has appointed Stephen Lackey as chairman of its Asia Pacific region. Lackey succeeds Christopher Sturdy, who has been Asia Pacific chairman since early 2008 and is moving to New York to take on a senior role in the firm’s Global Client Management Group. Lackey joined BNY Mellon in 1981 and has been director…
Fitch Solutions: Risk Managers Still Coming To Terms with Basel III Regulation
According to a delegate voting poll taken at the latest series of Fitch Solutions ‘Managing Credit & Counterparty Risk’ seminars this month, 43% of risk managers remain unsure if the new Basel III regulations will help them manage risk more effectively, whilst 32% believe it will improve effectiveness and, in contrast, 25% believe it will…
Liquidity Risk Regulation: Data Quality Under the Microscope
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) liquidity risk regime has set a precedent for tackling this particularly thorny area of risk management, ahead of the wider implementation of Basel III globally. Reference Data Review speaks to a number of risk technology vendors about the data quality issues underlying the liquidity risk management challenge in light of…
ISDA Proposes to Use FpML to Link Unique IDs to Standardised Derivatives and a New Central Derivative Product Registry
In line with the recent regulatory driven study into derivatives instrument identification, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has released proposals to link unique IDs to these instruments and has called for the establishment of a new central derivative product registry infrastructure. The proposals are contained in a recent white paper, which suggests that…
RIMES Joins the NASDAQ OMX Elite Index Data Partnership
RIMES Technologies Corporation today announced that it has become an Elite Index Data Partner of NASDAQ OMX, the world’s largest exchange company and benchmark index provider. All NASDAQ OMX indexes will be available via the RIMES Benchmark Data Service (BDS), the fully managed data service which takes care of clients’ entire benchmark data workflow, improving…