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Sifma Hires a Project Manager to Champion its Interests and Those of Seven Other Associations on the OFR LEI Issue
The combined response submitted by the Clearing House Association, EDM Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Futures Industry Association (FIA), International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the Investment Company Institute, the Managed Funds Association (MFA) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) may be only one of the 20 received this week by…
Data Infrastructure Investment on the Cards for 2011, Says SunGard’s Crowley
A desire for greater data transparency and consistency is driving firms to invest in their data infrastructures, according Janet Crowley, general manager of SunGard’s data management solution, Fame. Crowley, who has long been a proponent of managed data services, indicates that SunGard saw an uptick in interest in the vendor’s Fame solution set last year…
Troika Dialog Boosts its OTC Derivatives Products with SuperDerivatives
Troika Dialog, the largest private investment bank in Russia, has announced that it has selected SDX from SuperDerivatives (SD), the global derivatives benchmark and leading multi-asset front office system, to power its FX derivatives business. SD is the market’s benchmark system for emerging markets derivatives pricing and data. SDX delivers exceptional accuracy by using a…
Fitch Appoints Rob Harpel Chief Technology Officer
Fitch today announced it has appointed Robert Harpel as group managing director and chief technology officer. A 25-year information technology veteran, Harpel was most recently senior vice president, sales systems for Viacom’s MTV Networks. In his new role he reports to Peter Jordan, group managing director and head of global business management for Fitch. “Technology…
Numerix Opens Mid-West and West Coast Sales Offices
Numerix, the leading provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, is pleased to announce the successful opening of two North American regional sales offices in Chicago, Illinois and San Mateo, California. The new offices and strategic hires create an immediate sales presence for Numerix on both the West Coast and in the…
DTCC Names Ronald Jordan Chief Data Officer
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has named Ronald Jordan, a 26-year industry veteran, to the new position of chief data officer, effective immediately. As chief data officer, Jordan will be responsible for guiding DTCC’s strategy on matters related to DTCC’s commercial and regulatory data business activities. In the current re-regulatory environment, financial firms…
ISDA Releases FpML Survey
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today released the results of its Financial products Markup Language (FpML) survey. The survey was designed to gauge the current use of FpML and planned applications going forward. FpML is the freely licensed business information exchange standard for electronic dealing and processing of privately negotiated derivatives and…
Aux Temps Perdus en Fleet Street
Just because we could, we took lunch on Fleet Street yesterday. I managed to squeeze in a quick haircut at the hairdressers just across the street from the Punch Tavern, then ambled over to Lutyens, the newish chi-chi restaurant housed at – yes, you guessed it – 85 Fleet Street. This building – designed by…
DTCC Opens Washington, DC Office, Names Capitol Hill Veteran Dan Cohen Managing Director, Head of Government Relations
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that Daniel Cohen has been appointed to the new position of managing director and head of government relations. In his new position, Cohen will be responsible for leading DTCC’s government relations function, including formulating the overall government relations strategy, representing DTCC before Congress and federal and…
A Single Standard for Legal Entity Data May be a Long Way Off, Says Thomson Reuters’ Rice
The regulatory community may be keen for the industry to adopt standardised legal entity identifiers, but the adoption of a single suitable standard for these purposes may take some time. In the fourth in our series of talking heads on the challenges surrounding entity data management in the current market, Tim Rice, global head of…