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Broadridge Achieves a Record Year in 2010 for Fixed Income Processing Platform Implementations
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that 2010 was a record year for client implementations of its fixed income securities processing platform. Eleven new banks and brokerage firms chose Broadridge because of the expansiveness of its fixed income processing platform, the speed and efficiency with which Broadridge brings clients onto the system, and its enhanced data…
Regulators Should Begin Work With the Data and Formats Already Being Reported, Says ICFR’s Ridpath
A lot has been said on the subject of systemic risk monitoring and the collection of macroprudential data over the last year or so (just look at the developments in the US around the Office of Financial Research for proof) and the International Centre for Financial Regulation (ICFR) is aiming to play its part in…
US Continues to Drag its Heels with Regards to a Decision on the Move to IFRS
In spite of the noises made last year by US regulators with regards to moving towards adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the US regulatory community has thus far failed to commit to a timeline for adoption or even indicate whether it is likely to move to the international accounting standards at all. In June…
DTCC’s MD of Corp Comms Goldstein Makes His Exit
After nearly 20 years with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) communications team, current managing director of corporate communications and public affairs Stuart Goldstein is due to depart for pastures unknown. Goldstein’s departure was announced in a recent intra-company memo and comes at a time when DTCC is raising its public profile in order…
Wall Street FPGA Applies Hardware Acceleration to FIX
Well, FIX Cancel messages, to be precise. A just-released white paper from Wall Street FPGA – a company whose focus is pretty self explanatory from its name – details how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (or FPGAs) can be used along with the open source QuickFIX engine to rapidly fire off cancel messages to matching engines….
Profidata Group Opens London Office
Profidata Group, a provider of investment and wealth management systems, has expanded its operations by opening a London office to serve the UK and Ireland region. This expansion comes at a time of sustained growth for the company. Christian Widmer, CEO of Profidata Group, said: “As well as growing our business across Northern Europe we…
Information Mosaic Americas Hires Sigrid Wiley As Product Specialist
Information Mosaic, a post-trade automation solutions vendor, announced today that it has hired Sigrid Wiley as a product specialist for the Americas region. In this role, Wiley will perform business analysis and consulting tasks, as well as deliver pre-sales support to the Americas sales team. She will also provide input to regional product direction. Wiley…
GoldenSource’s Stock Discusses 2010 Results and Prod Dev Plans in Pricing Space
Last week, GoldenSource announced that in 2010 it had achieved a 30% increase in revenues on the previous year, which Tom Stock, senior vice president of product management at the EDM vendor, attributes in part to the success of its new market data, data warehousing and risk management focused solutions. Speaking to Reference Data Review, Stock…
SEC Deals Another Blow to the Ratings Agencies with Further Proposed Legislative Amendments
As part of its overall crackdown on the credit ratings agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has this week proposed a series of amendments to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 that will remove the requirements for mandatory credit ratings. The proposals are in accordance with the provisions…
DTCC’s Thompson Testifies About the Importance of Data Repositories Beyond the Swaps Market
In keeping with its recent focus on data repositories, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) managing director and general counsel, Larry Thompson, this week testified before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry stating that OTC derivatives market transparency could be improved by extending to other asset classes the current data repository model…