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Obama Signs Off US Financial Services Bill, But What Changes are Needed to Meet the OFR’s Data Requirements?
After months of debate and the lengthy deliberations of a dedicated conference committee, US president Barack Obama has finally signed off the reform bill that proposes, amongst many other things, to set up a US-based data utility in order to more accurately monitor systemic risk. The establishment of the Office of Financial Research has now…
DTCC Further Expands Public Release of Credit Default Swap Data Registered in its Global Trade Repository
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today further expanded its public release of credit default swap (CDS) data, providing more detailed market segmentation information on the largest corporate and sovereign CDS (single named reference entities) registered in its Trade Information Warehouse’s (Warehouse) global repository. This extension of the data posted on DTCC’s website will…
Vendor Partnerships Key to Success in Tackling KYC and Entity Data Challenge, Says GoldTier’s Tebaldi
The most effective manner in which to tackle the challenge of entity data management and meeting know your customer (KYC) requirements is by opting for a best of breed vendor approach, according to Matthew Tebaldi, president of client onboarding and KYC data management solution vendor GoldTier. To this end, the vendor has teamed up with…
Only 26% of 450 Respondents to Oracle’s European Survey Confident in Data Management Systems’ Ability to Support Risk Function
Reference Data Review has noted on a number of occasions that data quality and data management issues lie at the heart of the risk management and compliance challenge and recent research by IT system vendor Oracle is a case in point, which indicates that only 26% of the 450 European respondents to the survey were confident…
Next Year’s European Data Privacy Reforms Could Potentially Have a Significant Impact on Data Storage and Access
The UK government has this month issued a call for evidence on the current European data protection legislative framework, ahead of European-wide negotiations on an update of the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC due at the start of next year. Reforms could potentially have a significant impact on the data storage and access requirements for…
Two Weeks Until Firms Need to Supply Their Pre-implementation Reports to the UK FSCS for SCV Compliance
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been doing its level best this year to make the industry aware of the new customer data requirements as part of the incoming Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) Single Customer View (SCV) reforms, but time is running out. Firms have the next two weeks in which to pull…
UK FSA Highlights Data Integrity Issues for Transaction Reporting, Including Specific Format for BICs
In its latest newsletter, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) elaborates on the reference data integrity checks that firms need to conduct to ensure that their transaction reports are commensurate with the regulator’s requirements. This includes clarification about the length of Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) for client and counterparty identification; an area where a number…
CFTC Issues Proposed Rulemaking to Improve Account Ownership and Control Data
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today approved for publication in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that calls for the collection of certain ownership, control and other information for all trading accounts active on US futures exchanges and other reporting entities. The information will be collected via an account ownership and control…
New Data Validation Steps Required Under CESR’s Proposed MiFID Client Categorisation Regime Changes
As part of the ongoing review of MiFID, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has published a new consultation paper on the subject of client categorisation that indicates a more structured approach to maintaining and monitoring entity data will be required within European financial institutions. The proposed requirements, which are aimed at strengthening investor…
Defining the Data Agenda
Data management is certainly a hot topic of late but how is the industry to have a structured and meaningful discussion about it when there are so many issues to be covered? As I have noticed when chairing discussions on reference data topics at past events, it is very easy to get sidetracked by particular…