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Opinion: Risk Management Nirvana Comes Together in the Form of Real-time
By Dale Stevens, business development director for Capital Markets at SAS UK The case for real-time risk management was made clear in report published by Lepus earlier this week. The report is based on interviews with senior representatives from four global banks and two independent consultants with extensive past experience in the field of risk….
Swift’s Young on Opportunities for Industry Collaboration in the Face of Impending Regulatory Compliance Challenges
Reference Data Review speaks with speaks to Swift’s head of regulatory affairs for the securities markets Richard Young about the onslaught of regulation that the industry is facing and where the compliance challenges lie. Young discusses how the industry can respond to these challenges in a collaborative manner and provides some practical examples of this…
State Street and InfraHedge Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Enhanced Capabilities to Institutional Investors in Hedge Funds
State Street, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, and InfraHedge, a UK-based company providing an independent governance and risk management infrastructure for institutional investors to invest in hedge funds through managed accounts, today announced a new strategic alliance marked by State Street’s majority equity investment in InfraHedge. As the…
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Signs for FRSGlobal’s Local Regulatory Reporting Solution for Hong Kong and Singapore
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, a leading worldwide provider of compliance and risk management solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A has chosen its web-enabled local regulatory reporting solution for Hong Kong and Singapore. JPMorgan Chase, N.A. selected FRSGlobal after a selection process in which many factors…
EIOPA Publishes XBRL Template and Taxonomy Proposals for Solvency II Quantitative Reporting
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), one of the three industry focused, European level bodies that was created at the start if the year, has released its proposals for XBRL-based templates and a new taxonomy to be used when sending quantitative reports to the regulator as part of their compliance requirements under Solvency…
Recorded Webinar: S&P Recorded Webinar: Confidence and Clarity – Understanding Valuation Risk
This recorded webinar will help you to understand how valuations and pricing have evolved over the last couple of years in the post-crisis environment. In this session, you will hear different perspectives on how market participants have been tackling the valuation risk challenge from Paul Sharkey of Northern Trust, James Dimech Debono of KPMG, and…
Pricing Partners Introduces Brazilian Swaps Pricing
Pricing Partners announced today that the Price-it solution has been upgraded to support Brazilian swap conventions. The BRL swap market uses indeed different convention from other swap markets. First of all, the year fraction between two dates is computed as the difference of business days between the two dates divided by 252. Secondly, the fixed…
SailPoint Global Market Pulse Survey Underscores Risk of Insider Threats
A recent SailPoint Market Pulse Survey examined the current state of employee compliance with corporate policy related to private, sensitive data to help identify weak links in IT risk mitigation programs. Conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of SailPoint, the survey of 3,484 employees in the United States, Great Britain and Australia found that an…
Indexium Signs with Cadis
Cadis , the global EDM specialist, has been selected by Indexium, to streamline its data management process. Indexium, the Swiss-based startup firm will calculate and distribute all indices for the STOXX Ltd, SIX Swiss Exchange and Deutsche Börse Group. After a successful Proof of Concept (PoC), Cadis is enabling Indexium to create new data feeds,…
Unifying Data for the End-User
The data that traders, researchers and risk managers need is often located across many systems. While ETL, middle-ware and traditional golden copy approaches are useful for data management, they don’t provide the business user with an easy way of analyzing this distributed data, says Xenomorph in its new white paper “TimeScape Data Unification”. A key…