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US SEC Adds More Data Requirements to its Proposed Hedge Funds Rules
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added a further set of data disclosure requirements to those it is proposing for the hedge funds market as part of the Dodd-Frank reforms. Under the proposed reforms, more organisational and operational information will be needed for SEC registration purposes from investment advisers and the private funds…
SIX Telekurs’ Newbury Highlights Potential Clash Between MiFID Best Ex and IFRS for the Valuations Sector
The valuations business is facing an unprecedented amount of change as a result of the barrage of regulatory requirements coming down the pipe and some rule changes could potentially conflict with each other, thus causing serious challenges for those caught in the compliance trap. One such potential clash is between the revised best execution requirements…
Increased Timeliness and Complexity Have Put Valuations Teams Under Pressure, Says JPMorgan’s Guibout
The risk data requirements of clients and regulators have resulted in an increase in the need for intraday pricing and much more data around a price, explained Marcel Guibout, executive director of the fund accounting product in EMEA for JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services, to attendees to last week’s SIX Telekurs valuations roadshow in London. This…
Does the World of Valuations Need Common Data Formats?
The need for data standardisation is well understood in many areas of reference data (albeit poorly implemented or non-existent in actuality – concept rather than reality being the operative word), but the world of valuations data has largely remained untouched by standardisation initiatives to harmonise vendor formats. Guy Sears, director of Wholesale at the Investment…
SmartStream Planning to Add Entity, Corporate Actions and Settlement Instruction Data to DClear in the Future
There may be some debate about SmartStream’s future ownership at the moment, but the vendor is not about to let that hold back the development plans for its reference data utility solution DClear, according to David Penney, executive vice president of strategy and product development at the vendor. SmartStream is currently working on adding more…
PolarLake Announce World’s First Semantic Web-based Reference Data Management Platform
PolarLake has announced the availability of the world’s first reference data management platform based on semantic web technologies. The platform enables the acquisition, management and distribution of vendor and internally sourced reference data. Already being used by a number of tier 1 financial services firms, the platform enables, data loading 11x faster, queries 17x faster…
Paladyne Releases Latest Version of its Reference Data Management Suite
Paladyne Systems, a provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced the release of Paladyne Security Master 7.0 and Paladyne Price Master 7.0, the major components of Paladyne’s reference data management suite. This release introduces many new product features and extends many areas of existing functionality. Today, Paladyne’s reference data management products are used…
Fidelity ActionsXchange Plans Subscription-based Solution, Notifications and Response Also on the Radar, Says Pollard
Fidelity ActionsXchange has recently upgraded its ActionService platform via the addition of an announcement offering to capture corporate actions data closer to the issuer source and this will act as the foundation for the development of the vendor’s planned subscription-based solution, says Laura Pollard, executive vice president and head of Fidelity ActionsXchange. The vendor is…
Xenomorph CEO Brian Sentance Spearheads North American Expansion
Xenomorph, the leading analytics and data management solution provider to global financial markets, has today announced that founder director and CEO Brian Sentance has moved to New York to spearhead the company’s North American growth and further boost its presence in the market. The company, which first opened a sales and support operation in North…
FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its…