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Trillium Software Unveils Latest Version of Trillium Software System to Help Companies Achieve Data Certainty
Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, announced today its latest version of the Trillium Software System. This newly-released software platform provides an easy-to-navigate interface which supports the data lifecycle methodology that companies engage in to “Discover, Develop, Deploy and Manage” their information quality initiatives. Designed to visualise data issues, improve business rule validation and enhance…
ECB Indicates Preliminary Price of 13 Cents Per Instruction for T2S Settlement with 30 CSDs on Board
The European Central Bank (ECB) has released its preliminary price estimates for settlement on its Target2-Securities (T2S) settlement system, due to be launched in September 2014, which indicate that if all 30 European central securities depositories (CSDs) join, settlement could be as low as 13 cents per settlement instruction. This will therefore essentially split the…
StatPro Evaluated Pricing Service Selected by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research
StatPro, a global provider of portfolio analysis software and asset valuations, today announced that it will become the primary independent provider of evaluated pricing for BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Bond Indices for Canada, Mexico and Brazil. StatPro’s fixed income methodologies incorporate bond terms and conditions, proprietary pricing models and real-time quotes from contributing dealers….
Accuity Introduces Chinese Language Functionality for Online Compliance
Accuity, a provider of global payment routing data, AML screening software, and services, today unveiled Chinese language functionality for its web-based look-up tool, Online Compliance, powered by WorldCompliance. A versatile component of Accuity’s Compliance Solutions, Online Compliance allows users to identify and research sanctioned entities, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and other high-risk individuals and organisations….
CFTC Plans Roundtable on Data Details of OCR Reporting for Next Week, Including Entity ID Proposals
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has indicated that it will lead a public roundtable on 16 September to discuss its proposed new ownership and control report (OCR), including the practicalities of customer identification. The move is in response to the concerns raised by industry participants, including Futures Industry Association (FIA) president John Damgard who…
QuIC’s Record Growth Spurs Move to Larger UK Office
QuIC Financial Technologies, a risk management, pricing and analytic solutions vendor, has today announced the relocation of the company’s London office to a larger facility at the historic old Stock Exchange Building, situated at 125 Old Broad Street. The move enables QuIC to support the increasing global demand for its risk management solutions, and the…
Regulators Focusing on Data Sharing Cross Border, Says FRSGlobal’s Blair-Ford
Not only is the regulatory community asking firms to get their data management systems in order, it is also seeking greater coordination between its own constituents, explains Selwyn Blair-Ford, head of global regulatory policy at solution vendor FRSGlobal. A lot of the recent work that has gone into structuring the new EU regulatory framework has…
Collaborative Approach to Instrument and Entity Identification Could be the Key, Suggests A-Team Group and CGS
Can commercial initiatives and innovation through partnerships succeed where standards bodies have failed in the world of entity and complex instrument identification? That is the question posed by A-Team Group and Cusip Global Services’ (CGS) most recent whitepaper, “Expanding Global Identifiers in Complex Assets and Other Areas”, and one which, given the focus of the…
Commerzbank Focused on Integration of Dresdner’s Customer Data onto its Central Database
Commerzbank may have fallen foul of the UK regulator earlier this year as a result of transaction reporting errors, but the German bank has been engaged in sorting out some of its underlying data issues by doing some of the groundwork to integrate the customer data acquired as part of its takeover of Dresdner Bank…
Kinetic Partners’ Survey Shows Concerns About the New Regulatory Structure
A survey conducted by Kinetic Partners of over 90 senior figures in the asset management, banking and broking industries shows a lack of confidence in future structures for regulating financial services in the UK. Nearly two thirds (65%) were not confident that the post-FSA structures within the Bank of England will be better than the…