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DTCC’s Heggarty and Omgeo’s Lind to Join Thomson Reuters
In line with its recent spate of hiring, data vendor Thomson Reuters is rumoured to soon be adding the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) managing director of market structure Robert Hegarty and Omgeo’s current managing director of strategy Tim Lind to its ranks. Last month, Thomson Reuters added ex-Credit Suisse exec Sally Hinds to…
IMA’s Sears Warns of the Dangers of Leaving Lawyers to Define Industry Standards
Last week’s MiFID Forum in London saw Guy Sears, director of Wholesale at the Investment Management Association (IMA), warn attendees of the dangers of leaving it up to lawyers or regulators to decide on the best data standards for use within the context of MiFID reporting. He indicated that such a move is potentially damaging…
European Commission’s Leaked MiFID Review Paper Highlights Data Standardisation Challenges Ahead
Following on from the slew of technical advice and consultation papers that have been issued by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) over the course of this year, the European Commission has finally drawn together its public consultation document on the subject of the MiFID Review, a draft of which was leaked last week….
Broadridge Introduces the First Mobile ProxyVote Platform
Proxy voting moves to the next generation of advanced technology with today’s announcement by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) that its ProxyVote.com platform will be available on mobile data devices such as smart phones and tablets in early 2011. The announcement and demonstration was made at Broadridge’s annual Investor Communications Conference, held today in New…
StatPro Boosted By Software Deals Spanning Four Continents
StatPro Group, a provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global investment management industry, today announced that it has signed new multi-year contracts with several customers in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. The new customer contracts include a variety of StatPro products, including the StatPro Seven portfolio analytics platform and the…
BT’s Pickles Discusses the Data and Risk Management Aspects of the Sequel to MiFID
Although there has been significant focus on the front office and trading impacts of the MiFID review, there are a whole host of middle and back office concerns to consider. Reference Data Review speaks to Chris Pickles, head of marketing for Financial Markets & Wholesale Banking at BT, about his perspectives on these challenges. There has…
Missing a Trick?
The breakdown of the time spent on each area for discussion at yesterday’s MiFID Forum was indicative of the general press and industry attention that is being given to certain aspects of MiFID over others. The majority of the presentations focused on the front office and market data impacts of the directive’s revisions (with good…
End of January Deadline for Responses to US Proposals for OFR Reporting of Counterparty IDs
The industry has just under two months to respond to the proposals regarding how firms will report data to the Office of Financial Research, including the standards that must be used for identifying counterparties. The statement of policy was published in the Federal Register at the end of last month for public comment and firms…
Ingres Expands Executive Management Team With New Hire In Sales
Ingres Corporation, innovators of Ingres VectorWise, a breakthrough analytic database, and leading providers of open source enterprise-grade database, today announced it has hired industry veteran and ex SAS executive, Geoff Sheppard, to strengthen its executive management team. Sheppard will serve as the Vice President of Sales for NEMEA and SEMEA, and will head up sales…
CEBS’ FINREP Reporting Changes Include a Whole Host of New Data Requirements, Says FRSGlobal’s Neary
The Committee of European Banking Supervisors’ (CEBS) incoming financial reporting framework (FINREP) changes, which are due to be implemented by 31 December 2012, include a set of new data requirements resulting from the changes to the underlying reporting templates, according to Niamh Neary, Core expert at risk and regulatory compliance solution vendor FRSGlobal. CEBS has…