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Tykoczinski Joins Kinetic Partners, Bolstering Risk and Valuation Services
Isabelle Tykoczinski has been appointed a member at Kinetic Partners, and will be joining the London risk team to strengthen and develop Kinetic Partners’ current risk offering. This new appointment will further enhance Kinetic’s capabilities across the risk spectrum, backed up by proven execution capabilities, including its Risk and Valuation Services (RVS) platform and analytics….
AFME, ISDA and Italy’s Assosim Support Transaction Reporting Via Repositories, Greater Data Standardisation
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and Italy’s Associazione Italiana Intermediari Mobiliari (Assosim) have pledged their support for trade repositories to be recognised as valid third party reporting mechanisms under Article 25(5) of MiFID, thus instating them as official transaction reporting (and related reference data) repositories…
UK’s CRC Deadline is Imminent and 76% Have Yet to Register, is Data Management Holding Them Back?
There are 48 days to go and only 1229 of the large public and private sector organisations required to register their businesses under the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) have thus far done so. As noted by Citi’s Meredith Gibson last month, the data management requirements of the UK Environment Agency’s new mandatory…
Eagle Moves Legrand to Singapore Office, Plans London Expansion
Following its establishment of an office in Singapore in October last year, data management solution vendor Eagle Investment Systems has decided to move its current Asian and EMEA managing director John Legrand from his London base out to the office in order to boost its competitive approach in the region. The US headquartered vendor subsidiary…
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…