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DTCC Policy for Releasing CDS Data to Global Regulators
The DTCC Trade Information Warehouse for credit derivatives is a user-governed, not-for-profit cooperative that provides a registry of the details of virtually all outstanding credit default swaps traded globally. The Warehouse currently holds data on roughly 2.3 million contracts from trading counterparties located in 52 countries, covering credit obligations of entities located in more than…
Fed’s Tarullo Once Again Champions Resolution Plans, BCBS Publishes New Recommendations on Subject: Data Challenges in Spotlight
Regular readers of Reference Data Review should be no strangers to the data and practical implementation challenges of resolution, or living wills, regulations that are the talk of the town at the moment. After all, US Federal Reserve governor Daniel Tarullo is just one of the high profile regulators that has been grandstanding about them…
Ex-Netik Exec Hale Joins Multifonds IGEFI as New Global Head of Transfer Agency
After 13 years as executive vice president of EMEA for data management solution vendor Netik, Keith Hale has joined Multifonds IGEFI as its new global head of transfer agency. In his new role, Hale is responsible for all aspects of its software package Multifonds Transfer Agent at the buy side software solution provider including strategy,…
UK Organisations Take Naive Approach to Data Centre Management, Nlyte Software Research Reveals
Nlyte Software, a provider of data centre performance management solutions, today released the results of its recent research that surveyed 200 UK CIOs on the importance of better managing and optimising the data centre infrastructure. The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, shows a clear disconnect between reality and hype when it comes to implementing the…
Edgar Online Announces New Chief Operations Officer
Edgar Online announced today that Diana Bourke will be joining the company. Bourke will assume the title of chief operations officer and will join the company full time on 5 April 2010. Prior to joining Edgar Online, Bourke was most recently president and chief executive officer of Inveshare, formerly known as Swingvote. Inveshare delivers shareholder…
Hyman Beck & Co. Selects GFI Fenics Professional
GFI Group announced today that Hyman Beck and Company, one of the world’s most diversified alternative investment managers, has licensed FENICS Professional for the pricing and risk management of its FX options business. The agreement includes FENICS Pricing, Analysis, and Structuring. James Lubin, Principal and COO of Hyman Beck said: “We are very pleased to…
Northern Trust’s Chapman Appointed as Member and Custodian Representative to SWIFT (UK) Ltd Board of Directors
Northern Trust announces today that Justin Chapman, global head of process management at Northern Trust, has been appointed to represent the securities community on the UK board of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). Chapman, currently the custodian representative appointed to the board of 12 directors, is also the co-chairman of the SWIFT…
Pine River Capital Management Selects Quantifi to Support Credit Strategies
Quantifi, a provider of valuation models and risk management software for the global credit and interest rate markets, today announced that Pine River Capital Management, a leading alternative asset management firm in the relative value space, has selected Quantifi XL for pricing and analysis of global credit products. Pine River, which has offices in Minnetonka,…
GoldenSource Partners with Xenomorph to Centralise Market and Reference Data
GoldenSource has partnered with analytics and data management specialist Xenomorph to offer the GoldenSource Market Data Solution (GSMDS), a single platform for market and reference data management that gives risk officers what GoldenSource describes as “a 360 degree view of all risk related data”. GoldenSource looked at a number of potential partners and considered the…
UK FSA’s SCV: If You’re a Deposit Taking Institution, it Applies to You
As noted by Reference Data Review recently), the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) incoming Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, which are part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), will require a significant amount of effort to create new data linkages in order for the institutions covered by the regulation to be ready to report…