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Sophis Wins Contract for China Re Asset Management
Sophis, a provider of cross-asset, front-to-back portfolio and risk management solutions, has been awarded a contract from China Re Asset Management Company (CRAMC), the asset management arm of China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation, to implement Sophis VALUE, its flagship buy side system. The mandate marks the first mainland Chinese insurance company to adopt a fully integrated…
Two Weeks Until Firms Need to Supply Their Pre-implementation Reports to the UK FSCS for SCV Compliance
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been doing its level best this year to make the industry aware of the new customer data requirements as part of the incoming Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, but time is running out. Firms have the next two weeks in which to pull…
US SEC Asking for Feedback on Proxy Voting Proposals Including Data Tagging
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has just opened a 90 public comment period for consideration of its proposals to modernise the proxy voting system in the country by increasing electronic messaging and XBRL tagging. Last year, SEC chairman Mary Schapiro launched a comprehensive review of the US proxy system in order to determine a…
T2S Corporate Actions Working Group Raises Potential Processing Issues Within System
As noted by Reference Data Review back in April this year, the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Target2-Securities (T2S) settlement system could have a significant impact on the area of corporate actions and some progress has already been made by the Corporate Actions Sub-group (CASG) in defining the issues that need to be tackled in this…
Quantifi Releases Next Generation Yield Curve Construction
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced the release of a new generation of yield curve construction that supports the latest best market practice of ‘Double-Curve’ interest rate valuation. The recent credit crisis introduced fundamental changes to the way interest rate derivatives are valued. The…
Northern Trust Provides Daily Valuation of Property Derivatives
Northern Trust announced today that it can offer clients daily independent valuations for complex OTC property derivatives. The product which has been developed in response to an increasing trend for property funds to use OTC derivative instruments, is the latest in a series of enhancements to the suite of services Northern Trust offers real estate…
Major Global Banking Group Chooses FRSGlobal for Regulatory Reporting in 33 Countries Worldwide
FRSGlobal today announced that a major global banking group has selected its platform to meet regulatory demands in 33 countries worldwide. The banking group currently uses FRSGlobal solutions in six countries and, following a thorough selection process, has extended the scope to cover a further 27 countries around the world with this most recent signing….
UK FSA Highlights Data Integrity Issues for Transaction Reporting, Including Specific Format for BICs
In its latest newsletter, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) elaborates on the reference data integrity checks that firms need to conduct to ensure that their transaction reports are commensurate with the regulator’s requirements. This includes clarification about the length of Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) for client and counterparty identification; an area where a number…
First Derivatives Signs Software Licensing Deal with Algorithmics
First Derivatives, a provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets industry this morning announced that it has reached an agreement with Algorithmics for the use of Delta Reference Data Factory. Under the terms of the deal, Algorithmics will use Delta Reference Data Factory as the reference data engine with its risk management…
ICAP Chooses UnaVista for Transaction Reporting
The London Stock Exchange announced today that ICAP has selected the UnaVista platform as its transaction reporting ARM. The inter-deal broker will use UnaVista to report transactions to the FSA across all reportable asset classes, benefiting from the rich feature set UnaVista provides almost immediately, as the product is securely hosted at the London Stock…