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IOSCO Technology Focused Report Highlights Post-trade Data Fragmentation, Timeliness Issues

Although it is largely focused on the impact of front office technology and developments such as high frequency trading, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) recent consultation report also highlights the need for greater timeliness and transparency into post-trade data. Referencing its recent report on dark liquidity, IOSCO notes that market fragmentation across new…

Pricing Partners Introduces CVA, DVA and Bilateral CVA Computation in its Derivatives Pricing Analytics

Pricing Partners announced today that Price-it library can compute CVA, DVA and bilateral CVA for all payoff based trades. Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) represents the additional cost to account for the possibility of the counterparty’s default, which is computed as the difference between the risk free market value and the one where the counterparty could…

Carne Adds New Director to Cayman Islands Team

Carne Global Financial Services is pleased to announce the appointment of John Ackerley as a Director with its Cayman Islands team. John joins seasoned fund directors Peter Heaps and Roisin Cater in providing governance services to Cayman domiciled funds. John has over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry, and has worked on…

The AIFMD in Focus: Valuations and Data Reporting Requirements Incoming

The controversial Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which was first proposed in 2009, was published last month and is due to come into force over the next couple of years, includes key data related requirements such as increased transparency into valuations and new fund registration processes. A-Team Insight examines the latest and final version…

“Hockey Stick” Moment for CVA Due to Regulatory and Accounting Rule Changes

Accounting standards changes, Basel III and the development of industry best practices for risk management and valuations have caused a “hockey stick moment” for the development of credit valuation adjustment (CVA). Dan Travers, product manager for Adaptiv and CVA solutions at SunGard, explains that CVA is a fast evolving area and the last five years…

Credit Suisse Strengthens Asia Pacific Global Markets Solutions Group Management And China Investment Banking Coverage

Credit Suisse today announced the appointments of Carl Bautista, Mervyn Chow and George Pavey as Co-heads of its Global Markets Solutions Group (GMSG) for Asia Pacific and the appointment of Zeth Hung as Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking Department and GMSG for Greater China. The appointments, announced today by Vikram Malhotra and Helman Sitohang,…

Broadridge and CTI Form Strategic Alliance to Provide Advanced Tax Reporting and Compliance Solutions

Broadridge Financial Solutions and Compliance Technologies International (CTI) jointly announce that they have entered into a partnership that integrates Broadridge’s Tax Managed Services (TMS) with CTI’s Tax Withholding software. This alliance offers broker-dealers comprehensive tax reporting and compliance capabilities designed to meet the increasingly complex tax processing and withholding needs of financial services firms. Through…

Serious Scientific Task Awaits the OFR and FSOC, Says Systemic Risk Focused Academic Liechty

As well as the data standardisation challenge, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) also face the “significant scientific task” of understanding how to use this data, according to academic John Liechty, professor of marketing and statistics at Smeal College of Business for Penn State University and director for…

Deutsche Bank’s Scott and Northern Trust’s Chapman Highlight the Regulatory Deluge Facing Ops Teams in 2012

There are so many regulations facing the corporate actions and securities operations sector that back office teams may be hard pushed to get on with their day job, said Justin Chapman, global head of industry management, operations and technology at Northern Trust, at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London. Nick Scott, managing director and…

Carne Director Appointed to Board of Oddo Alternative Investment Fund

John Donohoe, CEO of Carne Financial Services Group, has been named as an independent director to the board of the brand new Oddo Asset Management fund, called Orsay Merger Arbitrage. The fund will follow an M&A arbitrage strategy, and will be managed by fund manager Christian Fleury, who headed the merger arbitrage team at Banque…