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S&P Hires Ex-Thomson Reuters Data Consultant Nash for Enterprise Role
Standard & Poor’s has hired ex-Thomson Reuters EMEA and global head for its data consultancy business Penny Nash into its Enterprise Solutions team. Nash had been with Thomson Reuters since 2005 and has been involved in its data team and its corporate actions focused business lines over the course of her career at the data…
Issuers Won’t Adopt Standards Without a Solid Business Case and Market-wide Agreement, Says Computershare’s Sarkar
The issuer community is wary of adopting new standards without a solid business case and before the rest of the industry has agreed on which standard is best, said Naz Sarkar, CEO of issuer agent firm Computershare Investor Services, at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference. Sarkar defended the position of issuers, who are frequently criticised…
Asia is Much Further Ahead in Terms of Corporate Actions Standardisation Than the Middle East and Africa, Says StanChart’s Davies
The Asia Pacific region has come a long way over the last few years in terms of corporate actions standardisation and best practice adoption, according to Mark Davies, head of investors and intermediaries at Standard Chartered Bank in Europe. Although it is often lumped in with markets such as the Middle East and Africa, the…
S&P Provide More Data for US Securities
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies announced the addition of a new intra-day pricing snapshot for US taxable securities. Delivered via Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations (SPSE), a leading provider of independent evaluations, the new intra-day report – delivered at 12:30 PM ET daily – provides a real-time snapshot of market-derived pricing for over 1.5 million…
Virginie’s Blog – Does Corporate Actions Data Have a Place in a Utility?
The same old discussions about STP and standardisation in the corporate actions space may play out year after year (see my recent blog on which here), but one interesting (and newer, if not entirely new) idea discussed at last week’s CorpActions 2011 conference was the concept of corporate actions event data being stored in a…
Panellists Note the Lack of a Global Initiative for Proxy Voting Standardisation
There may be a number of national initiatives focused on standardising proxy voting practices in individual countries, but there are no global efforts to harmonise these practices across borders, agreed panellists at this month’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London. Justin Chapman, global head of process management at Northern Trust, suggested that some engagement at an…
Mr. René Anger Leaves Pricing Partners
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that after five years of collaboration between Pricing Partners and René Anger, its previously CTO, have agreed to part the company. Mr Eric Benhamou stated: “We thank René for his contribution to Pricing Partners. We wish him success…
Thomson Reuters Survey Highlights Top Four Areas of Bank Concern for OTC Derivatives Regulation
The uncertainty surrounding upcoming over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives regulation is prompting concern amongst banks in four key areas, according to a recent survey by Thomson Reuters. The implications of the regulations on capital requirements, workflow, the cost to trade and liquidity for single-bank platforms were highlighted by banks as unknown outcomes of most concern resulting from…
Esmeralda Estrella Joins XSP as Marketing Communications Specialist
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced today that Esmeralda (“Emy”) Estrella has joined the Company as Marketing Communications Specialist based in the New York office. In this new role, she will be responsible for helping to further promote the XSP brand through a variety of Marketing and Communications programs as…
Virginie’s Blog – The Coming of the Regulatory Data Empire?
Not only has the Swift/Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) alliance been backed this week by a Sifma led industry coalition group to act as the issuer and registration authority for the new legal entity identification standard, but the partners have also received the support of a number of these same associations to establish a…