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US SEC Passes Proxy Voting Reforms, New Data Requirements on Their Way in 60 Days
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has passed a reform this week that issues additional rights to “long term” shareholders, who own or have owned continually for three years and have at least 3% of the company’s voting stock, to be able to nominate candidates to the boards of the companies they own. As…
Pricing Partners Successfully Completed the Platform Test for ISV Solutions to Become Microsoft Certified Partner
Pricing Partners announced today that Price-it successfully completed the Microsoft ISV (independent software vendor) Solutions Platform Test. The platform test for ISV solutions is the breadth test that allows software vendors to measure their solution’s technical capabilities against a specific set of Microsoft technical quality standards. Pricing Partners adopts the latest Microsoft .NET technologies for…
SIX Group’s Information Biz is Down 3% Revenue on Previous Year’s First Half Figures
The revenue for the first half of this year for SIX Group’s financial information business, SIX Telekurs, is down 3% on the previous year’s figure for the same period. According to the vendor, the decline from CHF205.3 million in 2009 to CHF199.1 million this year was largely attributable to the negative effect of the euro…
Numerix Continues Expansion Across Asia Pacific; Opens South Korean Office
Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management has opened a new regional office in Seoul, South Korea, becoming the first derivatives analytics company to provide local sales and quantitative support in the South Korean region. The new Seoul office symbolises the growth and importance of the derivatives markets in…
Societe Generale Securities Services Mandated by Santander Asset Management to Provide OTC Valuation and Collateral Management Services
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been mandated by Santander Asset Management, the asset management division of the Santander Group, the 6th largest financial services group in the world by market capitalisation, to provide a range of asset servicing for its Luxembourg-domiciled funds which are administered and deposited with SGSS. SGSS has been selected for…
Ball is in Swift’s Court to Convince of the Benefits of the BIC as an LEI, Says SEB’s Strandberg
Christine Strandberg, global product manager at SEB Global Transaction Services, reckons Swift has a job to do to convince the market of the benefits of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier. However, she is confident that due to the experience of the industry network operator in the standards development process, Swift…
Tullett Prebon’s OTC Valuations Opens Sales and Client Service Offices in London and New York
Tullett Prebon today announces that OTC Valuations Ltd (OTC Val), its technology driven services firm providing independent price verification services to clients globally, has opened sales and client service offices in London and New York. The openings mark an immediate expansion of the business, following the recent acquisition of Vancouver based OTC Val by Tullett…
SEB’s Strandberg is Unsure About the Benefits of XBRL for Corporate Actions STP
Some in the market may be convinced of the benefits of XBRL for the entire corporate actions process (see our interview with BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s Paul Bodart for example), but not everyone agrees that it is the key to increasing end to end straight through processing (STP) in the space. Christine Strandberg, global product…
Industry Groups Petition Against CESR’s Proposed Client Categorisation Regime Changes Under MiFID
Industry groups and associations including the Alternative Investment Management Association (Aima), the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Futures and Options Association (FOA) have all indicated that they do not wish the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) to push ahead with its proposed changes to the MiFID client categorisation regime as…
End is in Sight for Swift’s Lean Programme, But is it Fighting Fit?
Ahead of this year’s Sibos in Amsterdam and following the approval of the 2015 strategy, I have been asking people what they think of Swift and its new five year plan. The most obvious concern for most of the market seems to boil down to one thing: cost. Whatever you think of its new, more…