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Phatra Securities Public Company Limited Selects the Charles River IMS to Manage Private Funds in Thailand
Charles River Development, a front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, today announced that Phatra Securities Public Company Limited, one of Thailand’s leading securities companies for institutions and high-net-worth individuals, has selected the Charles River Investment Management System to support its new project to establish a private fund department in Bangkok. Phatra’s users will benefit…
b-next Launches CMC:Cloud via Thomson Reuters Elektron Platform
b-next, a pioneering provider of multi-venue multi asset class capital markets surveillance and compliance solutions, today announces its CMC:Cloud solution for financial institutions via the Elektron network from Thomson Reuters. The solution which will offer the b-next CMC:Suite as a “software as a service” will provide Investment Banks, Brokers, MTFs, Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and…
CFTC’s Gary Gensler: Shining a Light on Swaps Transparency
CFTC chairman Gary Gensler has urged market practitioners to rally behind the Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms that will boost transparency in derivatives markets and outlined the steps the derivatives regulatory agency has taken to improve transparency in the swaps markets it oversees. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Office of Financial Research and the Financial…
Andrew’s Blog – The Hard Slog That Is Valuations
Great session on transparency in OTC securities at Andaz this week at a breakfast hosted by Interactive Data and featuring a practitioner panel moderated by our own Angela Wilbraham. It’s always refreshing to hear a frank exchange of views, and the panel – including BNP Paribas’ Peter Nowell and HSBC’s Chris Johnson – gave an…
Panel Agrees LEI Standards and Infrastructure are Likely to Face Some Delays, CFTC Deadline is First Milestone
A lot of progress may have been achieved this year with regards to moving towards a new legal entity identification (LEI) standard, including getting the G20 to pay attention to the work that has happened thus far (see more on which here), but once the initiative reaches the implementation stage there are likely to be…
FESE’s Berthoud Elaborates on the MMT Initiative for Trade Flag Standardisation
Marc Berthoud, vice chairman of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges’ (FESE) Economics and Statistics Committee and deputy head of data and index products SIX Swiss Exchange, explained the details of the exchange association’s recent initiative in the market data space: the Market Model Typology (MMT), to delegates at last week’s FIMA conference in London….
SEC Enforcement Division Produces Record Results in Safeguarding Investors and Markets
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the agency filed a record 735 enforcement actions in the fiscal year that ended September 30. This record number includes many cases involving highly complex products, transactions, and market practices, including those related to the financial crisis as well as insider trading by market professionals. “We continue…
Virginie’s Blog – Making Threats and Opportunities
This week’s FIMA conference in London as usual saw industry practitioners discussing their recurring bugbears – IP rights within the vendor community, a lack of budget for more strategic data management projects (outside of those tied to compliance) and coping with the cost cutting exercises sweeping the financial services community – but it also involved…
Andrew’s Blog – Bring In the Stormtroopers
More fall-out, it seems, from the ongoing restructuring at Thomson Reuters in the wake of former Markets head Devin Wenig’s resignation in the summer, this time within the Enterprise group. Enterprise chief Jon Robson this week announced the departures of enterprise data management head Sally Hinds and trade and risk chief Andy White, with their…
Form PF’s Final Rules Reduce Tension for Fund Managers
The final rules of Form PF announced last week by the SEC have opened up a whole new era for hedge fund and private equity businesses, which will now be forced to disclose more information to the US government than previously required. As such, each entity should plan how they will address the Form’s requirements…