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DTCC’S Global Corporate Actions Validation Service Adds Equity Derivatives Coverage
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced that it has expanded its Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS) coverage to include listed equity derivatives, effective immediately. Historically, financial services firms had to use manual processes to locate and adjust derivatives contracts to account for the effects of corporate actions (such as stock…
Fitch Solutions Appoints Joao Garcia to Lead its Quantitative Analytics Group
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Joao Garcia as the managing director for its Quantitative Analytics Group. Joao will be responsible for the quantitative financial research of the group as well as the management and development of its credit based products, which span areas such as…
JWG Risk Research Recommends Firms Focus on Getting Workable Risk Datasets in Place
After two years of scrambling to assemble new regulatory reports, firms now have a brief window of opportunity to rethink the risk information capabilities they need to satisfy both customers and regulators. However, it does not appear that many are taking advantage of the chance to redesign their current risk architectures. ‘Getting risk information right’,…
Rumours and Rumblings
Once again, the reference data utility was the talk of last night’s EDM Council roundtable event, but more interesting than the discussions on the stage, were the rumours being discussed amongst attendees. For one, there seemed to be a general consensus that it was only a matter of time before the US government announces the…
Transaction Reporting to be Limited to Eight Categories of OTC Derivatives, New Common Data Standards on the Way, Says CESR
As part of the overall ongoing review of MiFID, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has added further qualifications to the OTC derivatives that must be included in transaction reports and indicated that for these instruments further “common data standards” are incoming. This follows the consultation paper it released with regards to classification changes…
Behind the Scenes
One week to go before Sibos and, according to Swift’s figures from today, there are 7,489 delegates signed up so far. Let’s hope at least some of that number care about reference data; otherwise the utility panel on the first day might be a little quiet (apart from the panellists that is). And it is…
Asset Control’s Andrew Wolf Promoted to Sales Director, Americas
Asset Control announced today the promotion of Andrew Wolfto the position of sales director, Americas. Based in New York, Mr. Wolf will be responsible for overseeing the expansion of the North American sales team, including adding new sales executives in Canada and specific metropolitan areas in the US. He will also pursue new markets for…
Interactive Data adds European Money Market Instruments to its Award-Winning Fixed-Income Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it is adding evaluated pricing for European money market instruments to its global independent fixed-income evaluations coverage. These new evaluated prices will complement the coverage of US and Asian money market instruments already offered by Interactive Data. From…
SRL Global Chooses SIX Telekurs for Pricing and Index Data
SRL Global, originally established as a trading and technology joint venture with Man Group Plc in 2007, now an independent specialist technology boutique offering its services to financial buy side institutions, recently signed an agreement with SIX Telekurs UK Ltd to take end of day pricing and index benchmark data for its NEXUS Enterprise Solution….
SunGard Availability Services Launches Replication as a Service
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of information availability and business continuity services, today launches Replication as a Service (RaaS), a cost efficient, on-demand way to replicate vital data contained within an organisation’s diverse storage devices. SunGard’s RaaS replicates data in a secure private cloud environment, which is linked into SunGard’s recovery network. SunGard estimates that…