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‘New’ Interactive Data Starts to Shake Institutional Trees
Six months after the completion of its acquisition by venture capitalists Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus, Interactive Data’s new corporate structure is beginning to emerge. As it puts the new management lineup in place, the company is undergoing a technology revamp, kicking off in its Real-time business, which itself is starting to attract significant institutional…
Any Legal Entity Identifier Will Need to Contain Parent/Child Hierarchy Data if it is to Help Track Systemic Risk, Says Liegel
Rather than the idea of a ‘dummy’ legal entity identifier, as seems to be popular within the practitioner community Andrew Liegel, deputy vice president of regulatory and risk solution vendor FRSGlobal’s US operations, reckons the Office of Financial Research (OFR) will need to craft an identifier that contains a suitable coding sequence in order to…
Q&A: Fidessa’s Justin Llewellyn-Jones on Hosting and Latency
An increasing number of execution systems vendors are now offering their products as hosted services, running them from their own data centres, and taking on the job of managing them, including keeping their latency low. Fidessa has been doing this for some time. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with the company’s managed services head Justin Llewellyn-Jones to…
JWG Risk Report Finds Penalties Will Drive Firms to Improve Their Risk Information
JWG, the independent financial regulatory analysts, today released their latest research entitled ‘The new business of risk management’. The report is based on interviews with over 120 professionals from more than 45 financial institutions, as well as suppliers, supervisors and other industry professionals. Their extensive research has found that the new, intrusive style of supervision…
UK FSA’s Response to MiFID Warns Against a One Size Fits All Approach to Data Standardisation
The recent joint response by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the UK Treasury to the European Commission’s MiFID proposals indicates that the regulators are concerned that a “one size fits all” approach towards data standards may be applied to non-equity instruments, as the directive is expanded beyond equities. The response, which comes in…
A Number of Firms Have Put Counterparty Mapping Projects on Hold, Pending the OFR’s LEI, Says GoldenSource’s Recent Hire Engdahl
The majority of firms that have already kicked off projects to map their issuer and counterparty data have opted to put them on hold, pending a decision being made with regards to the establishment of a standard legal entity identifier, according to Steve Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy at EDM vendor GoldenSource. The…
CITIC Prudential Fund Management Company goes live with HiPortfolio
DST Global Solutions, a provider of investment management software and services, today announced that CITIC Prudential Fund Management Company has gone live with the HiPortfolio Asset Servicing solution, to strengthen its fund accounting operations. CITIC Prudential Fund Management Company is an asset management joint venture between the UK’s Prudential Group and China’s CITIC Group. Rock…
Pricing Partners Extended Multi-Curve Pricing to Major Currencies
Pricing Partners, a derivatives independent valuation and mathematical models and pricing analytics provider, announced today to improve its multi-curve pricing to major currencies. This announcement comes at a time when the market dislocation between the three month and the six month curves for all major currencies widen from a few basic points to a few…
DTCC’s Not So Subtle Positioning
Last year, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) kicked off its bid to set itself up as an industry data utility with the acquisition of UK-based counterparty and entity data vendor Avox, but at that point, it was rather cautious about publically declaring its intentions in the regulatory data space. Not so this year,…
SEC and CFTC on User Fees, Data Utilities and Obama’s Recent Budget Request
Following on from the recent high profile discussions within the US regulatory community about challenges facing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding funding over the last few weeks, president Barack Obama has this week proposed to include user fees in next year’s budget for the regulators. The…