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Nykredit Creates Central Data Hub with Cadis Platform

Nykredit, one of Denmark’s leading financial groups, has gone live with the Cadis EDM platform. Cadis, the global EDM specialist, has been selected as the central data hub that puts high quality, highly visible data management under the control of the risk group. “Nykredit runs the largest collateralised mortgage book in Scandinavia and so access…

Macbeth Talks up the DTCC’s Data Repository Ambitions for 2011: More Markets on the Agenda

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will be focusing on taking its services forward this year in line with regulatory developments, according to Stewart Macbeth, general manager of the DTCC’s Trade Information Warehouse (TIW). At the start of this year, it launched its automated portal for regulatory access to global credit default swap (CDS)…

Any Legal Entity Identifier Will Need to Contain Parent/Child Hierarchy Data if it is to Help Track Systemic Risk, Says Liegel

Rather than the idea of a ‘dummy’ legal entity identifier, as seems to be popular within the practitioner community Andrew Liegel, deputy vice president of regulatory and risk solution vendor FRSGlobal’s US operations, reckons the Office of Financial Research (OFR) will need to craft an identifier that contains a suitable coding sequence in order to…

UK FSA’s Response to MiFID Warns Against a One Size Fits All Approach to Data Standardisation

The recent joint response by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the UK Treasury to the European Commission’s MiFID proposals indicates that the regulators are concerned that a “one size fits all” approach towards data standards may be applied to non-equity instruments, as the directive is expanded beyond equities. The response, which comes in…

A Number of Firms Have Put Counterparty Mapping Projects on Hold, Pending the OFR’s LEI, Says GoldenSource’s Recent Hire Engdahl

The majority of firms that have already kicked off projects to map their issuer and counterparty data have opted to put them on hold, pending a decision being made with regards to the establishment of a standard legal entity identifier, according to Steve Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy at EDM vendor GoldenSource. The…

The Industry Needs a Global, Unique Legal Entity ID with No Embedded Logic, Says HSBC’s Serenita

The adoption of a global, unique legal entity identifier that has no embedded logic will have the biggest impact on the data management space, according to Peter Serenita, global head of entity and account data management for Global Banking and Markets at HSBC. However, the industry will also need to take into account the wider…

SEC and CFTC on User Fees, Data Utilities and Obama’s Recent Budget Request

Following on from the recent high profile discussions within the US regulatory community about challenges facing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding funding over the last few weeks, president Barack Obama has this week proposed to include user fees in next year’s budget for the regulators. The…

New Commodity Derivatives IDs Likely to Prove a Headache for Both the Industry and Regulators

As well as highlighting the legal entity identification challenges that the industry is likely to face as a result of the MiFID review, attendees to this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting also elaborated on the instrument identification challenges of the European Commission’s planned extension of the directive to cover the OTC and commodity derivatives….

CFTC’s Dunn Admits That Key Market Definitions are Missing from Reforms at the Outset

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has spent most of the start of this year complaining about its dire situation with regards to funding, but this week saw definitive proof that the regulatory reform process is starting off down the wrong track, with the admission by CFTC commissioner Michael Dunn that the regulator is pushing…

MiFID Transaction Reporting Group Meeting Highlights UK Specific Client and Counterparty ID Challenges

The UK is likely to face a significant challenge in the identification of clients and counterparties at an individual level on a national basis, as specified by the current proposals under the auspices of the MiFID review, according to participants at this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting. Rather than opting for firm level identification…