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IMF Publishes Possible Revisions to its Data Quality Assessment Framework
Given the regulatory community’s crackdown on data quality across the financial services industry, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recently published paper on the improvement of its data quality assessment framework indicators is judiciously timed. In the paper, the IMF’s statistics department suggests improvements to its current set of metrics against which to measure the quality,…
Agio Technology Names Nakashian as Head of Client Services
Agio Technology, a provider of managed IT services for premier hedge funds, today announced that it has appointed Nicole Nakashian, former executive director at UBS Investment Bank, as managing director, Client Services. “Nicole was our number one choice to lead Client Services since our inception,” says Bart McDonough, CEO of Agio Technology. “She is very…
EXL and Datanomic Partner to Provide Best in Class Compliance Solutions and Services
ExlService Holdings, a provider of outsourcing and transformation services, and compliance and data management solutions specialist, Datanomic, have combined their complementary capabilities to deliver exceptional compliance solutions and services for joint clients around the globe. This partnership offers customers a new end-to-end service to configure, implement and operationalise compliance screening with execution support at a…
Plus Markets Puts Algo Technologies at Heart of New Exchange Plans
Plus Markets’ plans to develop a competitive stock exchange by creating new products and services on the basis of its status as a recognised investment exchange are underpinned by a technology strategy that builds on Algo Technologies’ software. The exchange’s change in business strategy results from a five month review that ended in late August…
SmartStream Announces Partnership with Longtop to Distribute TLM Solutions Across China
SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced that it has formed a new partnership with Longtop, a software development and solutions provider targeting the financial services industry in China. Longtop will integrate SmartStream’s suite of Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions to complement its existing technologies and services. Longtop’s expertise across the financial…
UK FSA’s Living Wills Deadline Creeps Closer, Data Challenges Incoming
Six of the UK’s largest banks will be required to submit their preliminary draft recovery and resolution plans to the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) next month as part of the regulator’s living wills pilot programme. In order to be able to submit these drafts by the end of October, HSBC, Barclays, Royal Bank of…
FOW TRADEdata in Dialogue with Bloomberg to Incorporate Identifiers into Xymbology, Says IPUG
Following its letter to petition Bloomberg to allow its symbology to be included in FOW TRADEdata’s service Xymbology, the Information Providers User Group (IPUG) indicates that a dialogue has begun between the two vendors to incorporate both the BUID and the new Bloomberg Global ID (BBGID), which is at the heart of its open symbology…
SEC Adopts Temporary Rule Requiring Municipal Advisors to Register With Agency
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has adopted a temporary rule requiring municipal advisors to register with the SEC by 1 October, a deadline established by the newly-enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Municipal advisors provide advice to state and local governments and other borrowers involved in the issuance…
Cost of CFTC OCR Customer Data Collection Proposals is Too High, Says FIA’s Damgard
The cost of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) proposals to introduce new customer data reports, dubbed the account ownership and control report (OCR), is likely to represent a “significant burden” for market participants in the futures industry, according to Futures Industry Association president John Damgard. In a letter sent to CFTC secretary David Stawick…
B-Next Releases MACOC:DOC Application for Cost Effective Reporting for FSA Arrow Visits
B-next, specialists in software solutions to manage risk and meet regulatory compliance, announces today the release of MACOC:DOC, an application with the capability to demonstrate detailed reporting for FSA ARROW visits and complete management of all capital markets compliance processes. b-next has partnered with arvato systems Technologies (a Bertelsmann company), an international media and communication…