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UK FSA Sends Out “Dear Compliance Officer” Letter for SCV Reforms, Data Testing on its Way
In line with its recent more aggressive approach to ensuring the market complies with its demands, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has this month sent out a letter to compliance officers about the upcoming single customer view (SCV) reforms. According to the regulator, the letter is aimed at providing more information about the new…
Pay Per Click Emerging Markets Yield Curve Data via the FinDataPortal Platform
FinDataPortal (FDP), a financial portal, today announced that Kafafian Emerging Markets (KEM), a provider of treasury research data now offers its Daily Yield Curve data on FDP’s intuitive web-interface. The KEM suite of emerging market yield curves uses relevant market data to construct daily yield curves. It utilises a consistent methodology, which is designed to…
Wall Street Reform Act Includes Key Risk and Data Requirements in Light of Lehman Failure
The US House Committee on Financial Services’ Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which is currently making its way through the US legislative process, is seeking to rectify a number of inadequacies in light of the failure of Lehman, including key provisions around data and risk management. For example, the issue of living wills…
BBVA (Suiza) Optimises the Processing of SIX Telekurs Data with Gain Data Management
Aim Software, a global provider of reference data management solutions to the financial industry, today announced that the private bank BBVA (Suiza) has gone live with the Gain security creation interface for Ambit Apsys from SunGard. The adapter allows the customer to open instruments directly in the banking platform and thus to further optimise the…
Moody’s Experiences Strong First Quarter for Data, Analytics and Risk Business
In line with the relatively strong performance of the data and risk businesses of its peers this year so far, Moody’s indicates that its first quarter global revenue is up by 17% on the previous year’s figures for the period. Moreover, the vendor’s revenue from research, data and analytics increased by 3% from the prior…
Sallie Mae and Société Générale Select SailPoint for Identity Governance and Compliance
SailPoint today announced that Sallie Mae and Société Générale have chosen SailPoint IdentityIQ to automate and streamline their identity related compliance processes. SailPoint IdentityIQ, an identity governance solution, helps corporations of all sizes keep track of who has access to critical applications, data and IT systems while greatly reducing audit and compliance costs. A comprehensive…
FRSGlobal Announces Partnership with Semansys to Deliver Standardised XBRL Reporting
FRSGlobal today announced its partnership with Semansys Technologies. Semansys is a vendor of software solutions for financial reporting and business monitoring based on semantics and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The partnership was announced at the 20th XBRL International conference in Rome. Increasingly, regulators are demanding that reports should be submitted in XBRL, such as…
SIX Telekurs’ Raskin Explains Details Behind Acquisition of CSV’s Illiquid Instrument Pricing Business
In line with the current boom in the valuations sector, last week SIX Telekurs acquired the evaluated pricing business of niche player CSV in order to boost its offering at the more illiquid end of the instrument pricing spectrum. Barry Raskin, managing director of SIX Telekurs in the Americas, speaks to Reference Data Review about…
Enhanced Standards Development Process Brings Higher Quality Standards to Market Twice as Fast
In the second half of 2009, SWIFT Standards completed a thorough review and redesign of its development process for new financial messages. The results of this significant overhaul, closely aligned with the ISO 20022 process, include a faster time to market by more than 60%, and higher quality standards due to rigorous pilot group testing…
Shah and Williams Exit GBST, CFO Salis Steps in as Interim CEO of Global Broker Services
GBST’s CEO of Global Broker Services Sunil Shah has stepped down from his role at the vendor and current chief financial officer, Patrick Salis, has assumed his role in the interim period. Terry Williams, who was chairman of its European operations, has also left the firm. According to a spokesperson from the vendor, the parting…