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Cassovia Builds One Man Trading Firm on Xenomorph TimeScape Platform
Cassovia, a one man trading firm based in New Jersey that focuses on fundamental investment in equities, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management system to handle data issues that no man could solve quickly and alone. Frantisek Kovac, principal at Cassovia, worked at Deutsche Bank on the corporate credit desk before leaving and…
BIC’s Potential as a Detailed Entity Identifier May Be Limited, Says Bodart
The development of Swift’s Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier has proved a controversial topic over the last year or so and a number of industry participants are concerned that it is not fit for purpose. Paul Bodart, executive vice president and head of EMEA global operations at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, for…
XBRL Has Great Potential for the Corporate Actions Market, Says BNY Mellon’s Bodart
Swift is certainly convinced of the benefits of XBRL for the corporate actions space but it is not alone in its opinion: it has won favour with a number of high profile banking execs in the space, not least of which is BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s executive vice president and head of EMEA global operations…
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies Expands Cross Asset Class Price Evaluation Research Capabilities on its Global Credit Portal
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, an independent and analytically separate business unit within Standard & Poor’s that provides users with market intelligence and analytic insight for risk-driven investment analysis, in an effort to provide easily accessible information has added a number of enhancements to Valuations on the Global Credit Portal. The new enhancements will make…
Rocky Starts and Political Machinations
And so the long process of implementation of the recently passed Dodd-Frank Act begins, cue the lobbying and political wrangling over key appointments, including that of the head of the Office of Financial Research. But given that there is already discussion that changes may need to be made to the reforms just three weeks after…
Reval Forms Risk and Compliance Board Committee, Hires Chief Compliance Officer
Reval, a global derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions provider that has been managing post-trade over-the-counter (OTC) derivative contracts in its single version software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for over a decade, announced today that it has formed a board-level risk and compliance committee and has hired a chief compliance officer in advance of its registration…
SCV Reforms Still Failing to Gain Widespread Industry Attention, Says JWG’s Di Giammarino
The 31 July deadline for submission of firms’ pre-implementation reports for compliance with the incoming Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) Single Customer View (SCV) reforms may have passed but the majority of the “great and the good” in the financial services world are still not ready to talk about the customer data changes required as part…
FRSGlobal adds two Vice-Presidents to Executive Management Committee
FRSGlobal, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Nancy Schneier as Vice President Global Alliances and Wolfgang Prinz as Vice President Product Management. Nancy joins with over 25 years’ experience of selling and delivering technology solutions in the financial services industry, managing…
CESR Elaborates on New Counterparty Risk Requirements for UCITS, Data Quality Back in the Spotlight
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has added yet another paper detailing new data requirements for UCITS as part of its ongoing mandate to provide more clarity around the requirements of the directive, this time focused on counterparty risk measurement. The “guidelines on risk measurement and the calculation of global exposure and counterparty risk…
Xenomorph’s Sentance Goes West
Brian Sentance, CEO of data management platform supplier Xenomorph, has relocated to New York to support growth of office there. Sentance has been spearheading an ambitious expansion plan at Xenomorph that saw the move to new premises in London. His own move to the New York area appears to deliver on the promise issued late…