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Japanese FSA Produces Reform Blueprint, Bank of Japan’s Shirakawa Talks up Risk Management
The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has released its blueprint for an overhaul of the country’s financial services regulatory framework, including forcing more transparency in the OTC derivatives markets, new trade reporting requirements and risk management provisions. Last week, the governor of the Bank of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, also spoke about the importance of Japanese…
Schooley Appointed General Manager of Broadridge’s Mutual Funds Proxy Services Business
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced the appointment of Peggy Schooley as general manager of its Mutual Funds Proxy Services business. She joins Broadridge from Evergreen Service Company, where she served as president since 2005. Evergreen Service Company is a subsidiary of Evergreen Investment Company, part of the investment management business owned by Wells Fargo &…
Financial Services Braced for Global Data Deluge in 2010
The financial industry has been flooded with over 2,000 pages of regulatory documents this month including a dozen publications from European supervisory agencies, two major consultations from the Basel committee on banking supervision and over 15 pronouncements from the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA). The surge of regulatory activity comes amid a torrent of speeches…
EDM Council’s Atkin Elaborates on the Industry Group’s Progress This Year
Following on from last week’s holiday party and end of the year meeting, EDM Council managing director Mike Atkin has produced a 2009 update report on the data industry group’s progress this year. The work of the group has proved sometimes controversial, but the EDM Council certainly cannot be accused of resting on its laurels….
Operational Risk Could be Data’s Best Friend
By Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis The story is one we’ve heard before – we’ve slowly come to recognise the importance of an issue, some of us have even started to do something about it but mostly it’s much discussed and remains on the ‘to do’ pile. So what is the tale this time? That…
SmartCo’s Mougin Talks up CounterpartyLink Partnership
Following the announcement earlier in the week that entity data vendor CounterpartyLink and SmartCo have integrated their offerings, Pascal Mougin, chairman of the EDM vendor speaks to A-Team Group about his perspective on the tie up. Mougin explains that the choice to work with the entity data vendor was a relatively simple one: “CounterpartyLink is…
Siperian Launches New Solution to Help Financial Services Companies Operationalise Customer Centricity
Siperian, a provider of a multi-domain master data management (MDM) platform, today announced the availability of its Extended Customer View Solution for financial services companies. The company’s latest solution offers a flexible and scalable approach that enables financial services companies to operationalise customer centricity while increasing business agility and speed. Siperian’s Extended Customer View presents…
Sifma Adds Four New Professional Societies to Broaden Industry Reach
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) has created four new professional societies to broaden its reach in the financial markets beyond its member firms. The four new societies are in fact the latest incarnation of the association’s previously semi-autonomous divisions, which are now focused around compliance and legal issues, internal auditors, financial management…
Milne Departs Xtrakter, Replaced by Euroclear’s Weber as New CEO
Following its acquisition by Euroclear in April this year it was only a matter of time before a management shake up was conducted at Trax platform operator Xtrakter. The vendor, which was previously operated as a subsidiary of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), will now be headed by ex-Euroclear UK & Ireland CEO Yannic…
C Hoare & Co Chooses SimCorp Dimension
C Hoare & Co, United Kingdom’s leading independent private bank, has selected SimCorp Dimension as its future investment management platform. The system will support C Hoare & Co’s front, middle and back office operations including trading, portfolio management, compliance, performance measurement, securities administration, position administration, portfolio accounting and client reporting.