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Just in Time: Current Trends in Risk Management Data Supply
By Marc Alvarez, senior director, Reference Data Infrastructure, Interactive Data The global upheaval of the capital markets over the past few years has resulted in a wholesale, industry-wide effort to improve the risk management function. When looked at from the perspective of the data supply chain that services the risk management role, a major shift…
EDM Council Champions Data Management with Regulatory Community
The EDM Council has been busy over the last couple of months championing the cause of data management with the regulatory community. According to the industry organisation’s latest report, it has been working with the European Central Bank (ECB) to engage national and global associations, industry participants and regulators in discussions about data tagging in…
Broadridge Financial Solutions Goes Live on Swift MX Proxy Voting Messaging Suite
Broadridge Financial Solutions has gone live with Swift’s ISO 20022 proxy voting messages, the MX Proxy Voting Messaging Suite, which cover the end to end information and action flows between issuers, their agents and parties holding the right to vote. The messages that involve the announcement, voting and result dissemination process are now available to…
Reval Releases New Version of its Web-based SaaS Offering for Fair Value Developments
Risk management solutions and valuations provider Reval has released a new version of its web-based software as a service (SaaS) offering, which it claims includes enhancements to allow for credit adjusted valuations in accordance with fair value accounting standards. Jiro Okochi, the vendor’s co-founder and CEO, explains that version 9.0 of the solution provides a…
Unnamed French Bank Picks XSP for Corporate Actions Processing
An unnamed “large” French bank has selected XSP’s v5 platform to automate its corporate actions processing, according to the vendor. The bank will be rolling out the data management and scrubbing module, the notifications and responses module and the web-based eTRAN module for automated notifications, response capture and elections processing. Brendan Farrell, CEO of the…
AXA Hedging Services Opts for Price-it Excel for Interest Rate Derivatives Valuations
AXA Hedging Services has chosen Pricing Partners’ flagship pricing solution, Price-it Excel, to value some of its interest rates derivatives. Laurent Bourlard, CEO of the internal service provider subsidiary of AXA, indicates that the firm selected the solution because of its additional analysis functionality. “We were looking for a solution that could support not only…
DTCC Appoints Four New Board Directors: Dan, Daffron, Taggart and Vince
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed four new members to its board of directors: Stephen Daffron from Morgan Stanley; Bernard Dan from MF Global; Richard Taggart of AllianceBernstein; and Robin Vince from Goldman Sachs. Donald Donahue, DTCC chairman and CEO, hopes that the recently appointed members will provide new insight and direction…
Markit Document Exchange Partners with CTI for Tax Documentation
It has been a busy month for Markit’s documentation management platform. Following the signing of partnership agreement with Avox earlier in April, the vendor has now partnered with tax compliance software and consulting company, Compliance Technologies International (CTI). Under the agreement, the vendors are working together to integrate CTI’s electronic W-8 application for the US…
One View on Transparency
By Douglas Long, executive vice president of business strategy at Principia Whether looking at structured finance operations within commercial banks, or the exposure of these portfolios on the wider enterprise, markets or economy, the crisis has demonstrated there is room for improvement for everyone at this time of transition. The current financial crisis has highlighted…
European Parliament and Council Approve Commission’s Ratings Agencies Regulations
The European Parliament and the European Council have both approved the recently proposed regulation on credit ratings agencies, tabled by the European Commission earlier this year. The new regulation will put in place a common regulatory regime for the issuance of credit ratings with a view to restoring market confidence in the sector and increasing…