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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…
SAS’ ‘Big Analytics’ Tackles Big Data, Speeds Problem Solving
A powerful new release of SAS software helps enable faster, better decision making by improving analysis of vast and growing amounts of data. Whether a retailer optimising pricing for thousands of items, a hospital identifying which treatment plans improve patient health, or a government agency fighting fraud, SAS, the leader in business analytics, helps organisations…
WMDatenservice’s Heer Talks up European Potential of New German Financial Instrument Documentation Standards
Germany has recently introduced a new product information standard, called Produktinformationsblatt (shortened to the acronym PIB), that is an extension of the concept of the Key Investor Information Documents (KIID) under UCITS and aims to standardise the formatting of product information for the benefit of investors. Markus Heer, managing director of German data vendor WMDatenservice,…
ECB Might be Agnostic About How Securities Settlement Harmonisation Happens, But Standards Are Foundation
The European Central Bank (ECB) might be keen for harmonisation across the European securities settlement environment, but it is not fussy about how it gets there, said Hugh Simpson, senior advisor to the central bank from Bourse Consult at this week’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London. One important prerequisite to harmonisation is (whether it be…
SWIFT BICPlusIBAN Directory Helps Corporates Get SEPA-Ready
At the end of 2012, it will become mandatory under SEPA to use IBANs and BICs to identify the parties to payments transactions. Corporates still using old-style account numbers in their payments messages must have migrated to the new codes by that time. This means that in very short order corporates need to validate the…
Front Office Increasingly Concerned with Corporate Actions Data Quality, Says Bloomberg’s Haddock
The front office is increasingly concerned with the quality and timeliness of corporate actions data as it assists in the identification of prime trading opportunities and risks, according to Joseph Haddock, manager at data giant Bloomberg. Speaking at this week’s CorpActions 2011 conference, Haddock noted that increasing volume of corporate actions data that is being…
Virginie’s Blog – Corporate Actions: Get Over it
This week’s CorpActions 2011 conference in London raised some rather familiar points with regards to the appetite for change in the corporate actions space. After years of talking about standardisation, some progress has been made in drawing up industry best practices (see the recent standards documents produced by many of the industry associations out there,…
Berlanger Heads to Deutsche Bank, Bookheim Surfaces in Consultancy Role at Citi
Last week, Reference Data Review revealed that director in charge of data quality at Citi, Geert Berlanger was departing after five years with the firm. This week we can reveal he is headed to Deutsche Bank to take up the role of programme director for client business services, responsible for functions such as client onboarding. Citi, however,…
Pricing Partners Introduced a Quantitative Methodology to Generate Inflation Volatility Surface
Pricing Partners announced today that its Price-it library now includes analytical tools to estimate inflation volatility surface combining historical estimates and implied interest rates smiles surfaces. These analytical tools can provide reliable estimation of the smiled inflation surface on all major inflation indexes such as the European, French, Japanese, American or British HICP ones. This…