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What the Industry Wants the Regulators to Know About Reference Data…
As noted in my previous blog, a regulatory driven reference data utility is on its way for the US market, but it seems that not many of you out there are convinced this is the right step to be taking. My fellow panellists at a recent corporate actions focused event in London indicated that they…
Asset Control Launches AC Connect to Reduce the Cost and Operational Risk of Data Integration
Asset Control, the world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, has released AC Connect, a single integration platform that helps firms achieve faster time to market and return on investment on their data management and business application projects. As a new module of Asset Control’s AC Plus data management software solution, AC Connect simplifies integration…
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies Expands Coverage Beyond Rated Universe with Quantitatively Derived Corporate Credit Health Assessments
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, announced the launch of a new credit evaluation benchmark on its Global Credit Portal investor analytics platform. Called the Credit Health Panel, the new feature provides…
US Republican Senator Shelby Attacks Idea of Office of Financial Research as Waste of Time and Money
Given the political wrangling going on over the proposed US Financial Services Bill that is making its way through the Senate at the moment, it was only a matter of time before discussions turned to the proposed data utility in the form of the Office of Financial Research. At the end of last week, US…
Thomson Reuters Experiences 3% Increase in Revenue for Enterprise Division in First Quarter 2010
Following a fairly positive end to last year, Thomson Reuters’ Enterprise division has once again proved to be a bright spot for the vendor’s Markets division for the first quarter of 2010 with a 3% increase in revenue on the same period last year. This increase is set against a decline in the overall revenues…
European Issuers Unconvinced of Benefits of Moving to XBRL, Says Capita Registrars’ Kempe
Just because there are market inefficiencies in the US that require the introduction of XBRL to be solved, doesn’t mean that Europe should follow suit, contended Michael Kempe, chief development officer for Capita Registrars, which looks after issuers in the UK and Irish markets. The European market is much less paper driven than the US…
Focus on Corporate Governance Could Prove a Boon for Proxy Voting Automation, Says Computershare’s Sarkar
The recent regulatory and market interest in the area of corporate governance could prove to be beneficial for the drive to further automate the proxy voting space, said Naz Sarkar, director of Computershare Investor Services, which provides online shareholder services. By calling for the voting process to be made easier and for more shareholders to…
IMF Looks at Data Challenges of Better Supervision of the Global Markets
In a similar vein to the rest of the global regulatory community, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is examining how it can better monitor the financial markets and the data concerns related to that challenge. In a paper published earlier this week, the IMF indicates how it plans to map the interconnectedness of financial institutions…
IOSCO Confirms Hedge Funds Will Need to Provide Regulators with 11 New Data Sets in September
Following the publication of the new agreed template for the global collection of hedge fund data by the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee in February, the regulator has confirmed that these funds will have to start providing this data to national regulators at the end of September. Aimed at better monitoring risk…
Use of Third Party Providers by Buy Side is on the Increase, Says BNY Mellon Research
As proved by the plans revealed this week by IOSCO, the regulatory community is cracking down on the hedge fund sector and one of the side effects of these increased transparency requirements is that hedge funds are turning to third party providers to help them tackle the new data challenges. Recent research by custodian Bank…