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Middle Office Cinderella Finally Getting its Day in the Spotlight Due to New Transparency Requirements, Says Op Risk Panel
The new transparency requirements that are being mooted as part of the MiFID review process by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) have resulted in a surge of interest and investment in the middle office, according to panellists discussing operational risk at last week’s Xtrakter user conference. Godfried De Vidts, director of European Affairs…
Information Mosaic First to Achieve SwiftReady 2010 Certification for Corporate Actions and Securities Settlement
Information Mosaic, the global provider of post-trade automation solutions, is the first organisation to be awarded SwiftReady 2010 Certification for corporate actions and securities settlement. With the industry fast-moving towards ISO 20022 standards, Information Mosaic has already met the requirements of this year’s SwiftReady certification programme well ahead of the November 2010 deadline. “Information Mosaic’s…
Consensus is the Hardest Word
If nothing else, the reference data utility panel at last week’s Xtrakter conference again proved how difficult it is to agree on the best way to proceed with data standardisation, even if the conversation about the subject has been ongoing for several years. Francis Gross, head of the external statistics division at the European Central…
Video: Gert Raeves from Goldensource Talks about Counterparty Risk
A-Team Group’s President and Editor-in-Chief, Andrew Delaney, talks to Gert Raeves, SVP Strategic Business Development, GoldenSource, about living wills and other themes discussed at A-Team’s recent Counterparty Risk event, sponsored by GoldenSource, Interactive Data and Avox. Video of 11924365
DTCC and Swift Release First Drafts of Corporate Actions Announcement Messages
After a year of collaboration with Swift and XBRL US, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has finally unveiled the first set of drafts of ISO 20022-based corporate action announcement messages, which are part of its corporate actions re-engineering initiative for the US market. According to the vendor, the move away from proprietary message…
PaceMetrics’ Giblin and Boon Talk up the Benefits of a Lean EDM Model
It may have been a quiet start for PaceMetrics in the enterprise data management (EDM) space when it bagged its first EDM client back in 2004, but the vendor is hoping to raise its profile in the space over the course of this year, according to CEO Gerry Giblin and director of global sales and…
Pricing Partners Selected by Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking to Provide Independent Valuation of its Derivatives
Pricing Partners announced today that its platform Price-it Online has been selected by Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking to provide independent valuations on their equity, fixed income and credit derivative products. The topic of double valuations on financial derivatives has been of increasing importance in recent times. Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners comments:…
FISD Launches Financial Information Associate Certification
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announces the launch of its new “Financial Information Associate” certification – the very first offering of its kind in this industry sector and the first to come out of the FISD Professional Certification program. As of May 2010, early adopters from…
Citi Blazes a Trail for Counterparty Data Management, Berlanger Provides Update Four Years on
It has been four years since Citi first began its counterparty data management project as part of its overall push in the enterprise data management (EDM) space, which at the time was spearheaded by former chief data officer (CDO) John Bottega. The initial focus was on achieving a unique identifier for entity data across the…
BNP Paribas Fund Services Australasia Signs Multi-Year Proxy Services Agreement with Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced that BNP Paribas Fund Services Australasia Pty has signed a multi-year agreement to use Broadridge’s Global Proxy processing services for its clients in the Australasia region. BNP Paribas, already a user of Broadridge’s proxy processing services through its France-headquartered global securities services business, has now agreed to use the Broadridge…