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Firms Need to Put Pricing and Valuations into a Wider EDM Context, Agrees Panel at A-Team Group, GoldenSource and Interactive Data Event
The pricing and valuations space is becoming ever more complex and data management teams focused on this function are being asked to do even more with fewer resources at hand, so how can they cope? The answer may lie in increasing automation and slotting this area of data management into a wider enterprise data management…
JWG-IT’s Di Giammarino Elaborates on Five Elements of Successful Data Strategy
In a follow up to his comments at last week’s FIMA 2009 conference, PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of think tank JWG-IT, speaks to Reference Data Review about his perspectives on where the data management community should be focusing its attentions. “Financial institutions and the data professionals working in them do not live in a black…
Is the Industry Focusing on the Right Things?
This year’s FIMA demonstrated one clear thing: not everyone agrees on the right way to approach data standardisation across the market. There was a great deal of debate about whether regulatory compulsion is a desirable concept for the market with regards to forcing market participants to use standards. The European Central Bank’s (ECB) reference data…
LCH.Clearnet’s OTC SwapClear Service Clears One Millionth Trade
SwapClear, LCH.Clearnet Limited’s OTC interest rate swap clearing service, has cleared its millionth trade, taking the notional value of trades in SwapClear to US$206 trillion. Launched in 1999, SwapClear currently clears 64% of the global interbank interest rate swap market and the range of products cleared has been extended to include overnight index swaps of…
Fed’s Tarullo Highlights Data Management Considerations of Living Wills
The regulatory community has been abuzz with the notion of living wills, or firm specific resolution plans, for most of this year, but most have not considered the data management responsibilities inherent in the process. Daniel Tarullo, member of the board of governors of the US Federal Reserve System, addressed this issue and highlighted the…
Clearstream Completes Rollout of Aim Software’s Gain Platform for Pricing
Luxembourg-based international central securities depositary (ICSD) Clearstream International has completed the rollout of Aim Software’s Gain platform as its new central pricing data management hub. The implementation has been going on for the last seven months and the platform is now able to support the daily pricing of more than one million securities, says Josef…
JWG-IT Pokes Data Sized Holes in UK’s Response to Europe’s Omnibus Directive
Industry think tank JWG-IT has this week sent a letter to the UK’s House of Commons Treasury Committee warning it of the dangers of overlooking the data infrastructure challenges inherent in the European Commission’s financial services “Omnibus” Directive. The UK government committee has just published its response to the Commission’s proposed directive but PJ Di…
Video: Gert Raeves from GoldenSource Talks to RDR at FIMA 2009
Gert Raeves, SVP of Strategic Business Development & Marketing at GoldenSource, talks to Reference Data Review. Video of 7724325
CESR Awaits Industry Feedback on Standard Reporting Format for Securities Issuers
Industry participants have until the end of this month to respond to the Committee of European Securities Regulators’ (CESR) call for evidence on the use of a standard reporting format for financial reporting for issuers admitting securities for trading on regulated markets. In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has already mandated similar…
Quantifi Acquires Moment Analytics
Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, today announced that it has acquired Moment Analytics, a privately held risk management software vendor. David Kelly, Moment Analytics’ CEO, joins Quantifi as director of credit product development and will be based in the US. This is Quantifi’s first acquisition. The…