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Obama Signs Off US Financial Services Bill, But What Changes are Needed to Meet the OFR’s Data Requirements?
After months of debate and the lengthy deliberations of a dedicated conference committee, US president Barack Obama has finally signed off the reform bill that proposes, amongst many other things, to set up a US-based data utility in order to more accurately monitor systemic risk. The establishment of the Office of Financial Research has now…
Roger Liddell to Retire in 2011
Roger Liddell has informed the Board of his intention to retire from his role as chief executive of LCH.Clearnet Group Limited and its subsidiary company LCH.Clearnet Ltd in July 2011, after five years with the group. During his time with LCH.Clearnet, Roger has overseen some important developments, including the successful realignment of the shareholder base…
Acquisition of SunGard’s Messaging Hub Represents More Commercial Approach to the Market of Swift’s New 2015 Strategy
Swift’s planned acquisition of SunGard’s Ambit Messaging Hub is all part of the financial network operator’s new and recently approved 2015 strategy, which aims to strengthen Swift’s overall commercial approach to the market. The new strategy will see Swift making further “targeted acquisitions” over the course of the next five years, according to Mike Fish,…
Another Staff Member Exits Xtrakter in Ongoing Post-Euroclear Acquisition Reshuffle
Following the acquisition of Trax platform operator Xtrakter by Euroclear in April last year and the ensuing management shake up, a number of the vendor’s key staff have left the firm for pastures new, including ex-Trax product manager Chad Giussani last month and, most recently, marketing and communications manager Conor Coughlan, who is leaving next…
DTCC Further Expands Public Release of Credit Default Swap Data Registered in its Global Trade Repository
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today further expanded its public release of credit default swap (CDS) data, providing more detailed market segmentation information on the largest corporate and sovereign CDS (single named reference entities) registered in its Trade Information Warehouse’s (Warehouse) global repository. This extension of the data posted on DTCC’s website will…
Sapient Global Markets Partners with Numerix to Provide Integrated Pricing and Analytic Solutions for the Financial and Commodities Markets
Sapient Global Markets, part of Sapient and a provider of services to today’s institutional financial and commodity markets participants, and Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, today announced a global partnership agreement to provide combined capabilities to clients of both organisations. From front office to back, Numerix analytics…
Pricing Partners Becomes the Provider of Derivatives Revaluation for Leading American Investment Bank
Pricing Partners announced today that one of the two leading American investment bank, that wished to remain anonymous, chose its internet derivatives valuation platform Price-it Online to provide independent revaluation for its equity and interest rates derivatives. Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners adds: “Becoming the provider of independent valuation for a one of the…
Marketing Manager Mott Departs CMA, Mazzone Assumes Duties
It seems to be the season for people moves; what with the changes going on at Xtrakter and this week’s departure of Credit Market Analysis’ (CMA) marketing manager Simon Mott. After two and a half years at the credit derivatives data provider and a month after the management changeover from outgoing CEO Laurent Paulhac to ex-Icap…
Vendor Partnerships Key to Success in Tackling KYC and Entity Data Challenge, Says GoldTier’s Tebaldi
The most effective manner in which to tackle the challenge of entity data management and meeting know your customer (KYC) requirements is by opting for a best of breed vendor approach, according to Matthew Tebaldi, president of client onboarding and KYC data management solution vendor GoldTier. To this end, the vendor has teamed up with…
XSP Launches ASP Global Corporate Actions Solution in AsiaPac
XSP, a vendor of corporate actions software, announced today that it has launched an application service provider (ASP) offering of its flagship XSP v5 corporate actions solution on the Decillion Group platform. Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider and operator of the largest Swift Service Bureau in the AsiaPac region, formed a partnership with…