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Firms Face More Data Disclosure Around Level 3 Asset Valuations, Following FASB and IASB Agreement on Fair Value
Regulators may be at odds with each other this week regarding the definition of what constitutes a firm that is systemically risky, but significant progress has been made on the standards front by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in agreeing a global definition for “fair value”. The…
GS1 Continues its Campaign to be Selected as OFR’s Standards Administrator
ISO may be the bookie’s favourite to be selected as the Office of Financial Research’s (OFR) standards provider, given its expedited drafting of a legal entity ID standard and its recent selection of Swift as its registration authority for that standard, but that has not deterred standards body GS1 in its own bid to become…
Calastone Advocates Market Wide Re-registration and Interoperability of Service
Calastone, the global messaging and settlement transaction network for the mutual fund industry, announces that it is on schedule to deliver the first solution for re-registration to market whilst at the same time offering to extend usage and connectivity to other re-registration service suppliers. Connecting via the UK market practice group message standard, the agreed…
ISDA Announces Interest Rate Derivatives Trade Repository Selection
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) announced today that the ISDA Rates Steering Committee (RSC) has chosen Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to partner with the RSC on the next stage of development of the Interest Rate Trade Repository. This selection is the result of a public Request for Proposals (RFP), which was…
S&P’s Money Market Directories Expands Its Coverage Beyond the US and Canada
Standard & Poor’s Money Market Directories (MMD), a source of financial research and data on the institutional investor industry, announced expanded international coverage with the availability of its MMD Global dataset on MMD WebAccess. This new MMD dataset includes asset information and contact details of pension funds, endowments, tax exempt organisations and sovereign wealth funds…
Kempen & Co. Replaces Equity Derivatives Pricing and Data with SuperDerivative
Kempen & Co. has selected SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark and leading multi-asset front office solution, to replace its existing equity derivatives market data and pricing service. As a leading merchant bank and asset manager in the international market, Kempen & Co required an accurate benchmarking tool in the interbank OTC equity market, as well…
Princeton Financial Systems Signs Invesco Great Wall FMC, Expands Presence in China
Princeton Financial Systems today announced that it has signed Invesco Great Wall FMC (IGW) as a new PAM client. IGW joins other recently signed PAM clients in China, Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Shanghai) and UBS-SDIC Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Shenzen) as Princeton Financial Systems expands its presence in this region. As the…
SIX Telekurs Bolsters Regional Expertise in Tokyo Office
Financial information provider SIX Telekurs is proud to announce that Hidehiro Kanehara and Shigeo Katsuno have joined SIX Telekurs Japan Ltd at the company’s Tokyo office. The two new members of the team bring with them years of financial expertise and arrive at a time when SIX Telekurs faces growing demand for its services in…
FlexFinance IFRS Live After a Three Month Project Implementation Period
One year ahead of the Central Bank’s schedule, Access Bank, FERNBACH Software’s first Nigerian customer, announced the successful completion of its FlexFinance IFRS implementation. In a record time of less than 3 months, the joint team of Access Bank, KPMG and FERNBACH implemented FlexFinance IFRS. By completing the project, Access Bank has enlisted Nigeria among…
Thomson Reuters Embeds Data Visualization Technology into Quant Trading Platform
Thomson Reuters today announced it has joined forces with Panopticon Software, a provider of visual data analysis solutions, to embed data visualization capabilities into the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics. These new capabilities are available both as a managed service within Elektron, the firm’s high performance real-time network and hosting environment, or deployed…