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Opinion: LEIs – The Need for a System
By Chris Pickles, head of industry initiatives, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets On 15 October the finance ministers and central bankers of the G20 economies issued a communiqué that said: “We underscored our support for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system which uniquely identifies parties to financial transactions with an appropriate governance structure…
Opinion: Moving One Step Closer to a Global LEI
By Bill Meenaghan, global product manager for Alert, Omgeo Support from the G20 group of finance ministers and central bank governors for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system is a promising development and one that, we hope, will encourage momentum towards the adoption of the LEI standard. With the second phase of the ISO…
Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service Now Offers New 16:00 CET Evaluation Point
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of independent pricing and evaluation services, today announced an expansion of the capabilities of its Fair Value Information Services (FVIS) by introducing a new 16:00 Central European Time (CET) evaluation point for Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern equity securities. This new service is designed to help meet the fair value…
SunGard Adds Data from GFI Group to Enhance its FastVal Derivatives Valuation Service
SunGard has added data from GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (“GFI”), to help enhance the quality of the data in SunGard’s FastVal, which provides independent valuation services. GFI, a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets, will supply FX data to…
ISDA Unveils New Mission Statement
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) announced today that its board of directors has updated its mission statement to reflect the Association’s evolving mandate in the rapidly changing global derivatives markets. The new mission statement is: ISDA fosters safe and efficient derivatives markets to facilitate effective risk management for all users of derivative…
LuxCSD Starts Operations
LuxCSD, the new central securities depository for Luxembourg, is now open for business. After completion of the technical implementation in September 2011, LuxCSD has now been designated Securities Settlement System by the Luxembourg central bank which is required to operate under the protection of the Settlement Finality Directive. LuxCSD now provides the Luxembourg financial community…
Hedge Fund Standards Board Announces New Core Supporters
Aon Hewitt, the investment consultants, and two leading investment firms, Aberdeen Asset Management and Investcorp, have joined the Core Supporters group of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB). The Core Supporters group, which includes investors, investment consultants and hedge fund managers, is made up of leading backers of the HFSB. Dame Amelia Fawcett, Chairman of…
Virginie’s Blog – Regulatory Change and LEI Discussions Dominate at DMRAV (Not to Mention the G20 Meeting)
As I previously predicted, the spectre of incoming regulation and the standards developments around a new legal entity identifier (LEI) were popular topics for discussion at yesterday’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in London. Panellists and delegates alike discussed the changing dynamics within the data management universe that have meant much…
Broadridge Canada Announces BR Mobile for Financial Advisors
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced the availability of the BR Mobile solution for financial advisors in Canada, as a new product offering for Canadian securities dealers using Broadridge’s Dataphile solution set. This new solution from Broadridge creates a real-time mobile extension of the ProPhile advisor desktop, allowing advisors using the most popular mobile devices to…
Interactive Data and FINRA Provide Transparency into Structured Securities Market
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics, and related solutions, today announced that Interactive Data and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have developed a set of reports designed to provide transparency into market activity related to U.S. structured securities on a daily basis. The reports consist of the U.S. Structured…