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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…
SIFMA Urges Coordination on Creation of Legal Entity Identification System
SIFMA, along with the Clearing House, Enterprise Data Management Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Futures Industry Association, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the Investment Company Institute, and the Managed Funds Association today submitted a comment letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) on a proposal to develop a system of uniform…
SIX Telekurs USA Positions For Growth With Senior Hires
SIX Telekurs USA, the American subsidiary of the Swiss-based financial information vendor, today announced that it has appointed Anthony Fiori as manager of data acquisition, Renee Potter as vice president of business strategy and corporate development and Charles Roy as vice president, head of finance. Fiori has more than 20 years’ experience in financial information…
CFTC Reaching Data Breaking Point?
Much has been said recently about the funding crisis going on within the US regulatory community and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been particularly vocal about the impact this is having on its future capabilities with regards to implementing the Dodd Frank reforms. Last week, commissioner Scott O’Malia highlighted the seriousness of the…
S&P Boosts ABSXchange Analytical Capabilities
A series of enhancements have been made to ABSXchange – S&P’s structured finance analytics platform – as part of an extensive programme to help investors deepen their analysis of structured finance transactions. The latest round of upgrades include automatically calculated data fields where values are not otherwise supplied by deal servicers; a new screening capability…
ISDA Comments on Proposals Issued by the IASB and FASB
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) welcomes the efforts of the International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board to seek convergence on their current US GAAP and IFRS models regarding offsetting of assets and liabilities in the balance sheet. ISDA believes that reporting derivatives positions on a net basis where netting…
Bloomberg Launches Real-Time Compliance with Bloomberg Vault
Bloomberg today announced a new real-time search and analytics console for Bloomberg Vault, the first compliance solution to integrate real-time monitoring, search analytics, and archiving of Bloomberg messaging and corporate email. Bloomberg Vault capitalises on Bloomberg’s long track record in messaging and compliance to help financial firms and corporations meet increasing compliance, regulatory and eDiscovery…
Q&A: Telx’s Michael Cattell on Co-Lo in Chicago, and Trading Ecospheres
With a recent expansion of its Chicago facility, Telx is continuing to make news in the hot market for co-location services. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with the company’s vice president for financial services Michael Cattell to get the background to the Chicago expansion, and to find out more about Telx’s trading ecosphere. Q: You recently announced…
FinCen Proposes New Electronic Format and Data Field Amendments for Unified Currency Transaction Reports in the US
In keeping with its work to move from paper-based to electronic reporting formats, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) has published a list of proposed new data fields to be added to firms’ currency transaction reports, as required under the US Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Industry participants have until 28 March to provide feedback on…
Nearly 40% of Buy Side Firms Don’t Have Internal OTC Derivatives Pricing Capabilities, Says BNY Mellon Research
A large proportion of the buy side is falling short with regards to its internal pricing capabilities, according to a research paper by Bank of New York Mellon, with nearly 40% of the respondents to its recently conducted survey indicating that they have no in-house capabilities and are relying on counterparty valuations alone for the…