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Natixis Further Reinforces Coverage
Laurent Capes appointed Senior Banker Laurent Capes started his career with the World Bank in 1997. In 1999, he joined the Emerging Markets division within the Treasury Directorate at the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry. In 2001, in the Financial Markets office of the Treasury Directorate, he worked on several privatization transactions. He…
IOSCO Highlights Dark Pool Post-trade Data Gaps, Lack of Global Venue Identification Standards
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published its principles for the global dark pool community, which highlights the high degree of disparity across the post-trade data environment for these venues. In particular, it notes the lack of a common venue identification standard and trade reporting processes. IOSCO, which has also been working on…
S&P’s Pagliaro Elaborates on the Details of its Valuations and Risk Partnership with Sapient
Earlier this month, Sapient Global Markets and Standard and Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies (S&P VRS) signed a partnership agreement to provide their respective client bases with greater data and risk and pricing analysis capabilities for structured finance products. Reference Data Review speaks to David Pagliaro, senior director at Structured Finance Solutions for S&P VRS, about what…
Kinetic Partners Hire Kevin Huby
Kevin Huby has been appointed a Member at Kinetic Partners to focus on building the firm’s risk management and remediation services. This new appointment will complement and significantly strengthen Kinetic Partners’ highly regarded regulation and compliance service offering. Kevin joins Kinetic Partners from Ernst & Young, where he established and led a team focusing on…
ANZ Global Markets to Use GBST’s Syn~
GBST, a global provider of technology services to the financial services industry, announces today that it has signed a long term agreement with ANZ for the deployment of GBST’s securities transaction platform, Syn~, for the ANZ Global Markets business. ANZ will use GBST’s Syn~ platform as a complete post trade middle and back office solution….
SIX Telekurs Provides French Taxation and Regulation Information
SIX Telekurs has expanded its compliance-related services with French tax and regulatory information for investors and companies with tax liabilities in France. This new service helps financial institutions with French clients or French assets to correctly prepare their accounts to effectively and efficiently process French tax and regulatory requirements. SIX Telekurs, a leading financial information…
Omgeo Launches New Omgeo ALERT Capabilities to Drive Settlement Instruction Data Quality
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced the availability of new Omgeo ALERT functionality, SI Compliance Scan. Omgeo ALERT is the world’s largest and most compliant web-based global database for the maintenance and communication of settlement and account instructions (SI). With this new functionality, users can measure the quality of SI data by…
SunGard to Offer Same Day Securities Lending Data
SunGard is now offering same day securities lending data through SunGard’s Astec Analytics Lending Pit solution, helping customers improve price discovery, increase profitability and decrease risk. Broker-dealers and lending agents currently rely on data that is at least one to two days old, making it difficult to monitor the fast moving securities lending market or…
Reval Poll Shows Most End-User Costs Would Increase to Comply with Dodd-Frank
In a live webinar poll last week hosted by Reval, the premiere Software-as-a-Service provider for financial risk management, 68 percent of non-financial end-users of derivatives said that they do not have a Credit Support Annex (CSA) in place with counterparties to their OTC derivative contracts, indicating potential cost impacts for key compliance requirements expected under…
SimCorp Releases IFRS 9 Guide for Investment Firms
SimCorp, a leading provider of highly specialised software and expertise for the investment industry, announced today its guide to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9. The guide examines how investment firms can benefit from new measurement models and how they can leverage their IT platform to ensure compliance with the new regulation. The IFRS…