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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…
Q&A: Chad Attlesey of Hardcore Computer on Overclocking … And How To Do It!
A recent performance benchmark conducted by Citihub resulted in a lot of talk about “overclocking” of CPUs, and what the driver for it is. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked Chad Attlesey, CTO of overclocking leader Hardcore Computer, to explain what it’s all about, how to overclock reliably, and what performance gains might be seen. Q: Can you begin…
OTC Reform Causing ‘Big Data’ Challenge
By Ciaran Henry, US country manager for Rule Financial In 30 years the OTC derivatives landscape has not faced such sweeping changes as it does today. Dodd-Frank, EMIR and the Volcker Rule are all new regulations in the capital markets devised to protect US and European consumers from ‘bailing out the banks’ again. As these…
Markit Boosts Index Business Scalability with XSP CA Platform Upgrade
Markit’s renewal and extension of its corporate actions processing platform deal with XSP will allow it to expand its operations to serve more customers and make more calculations while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. As part of the renewal, Markit has added XSP’s Headline Indices functionality to the XSP v5 platform it operates in-house. According to…
HSBC’s Johnson Highlights the Deep Data Content Requirements of Solvency II
Although Solvency II may at first appear to be an insurance only focused regulation, the asset management and asset servicing communities are having to prepare for some fairly onerous deep data requirements coming their way by way of their insurance clients, warned Chris Johnson, head of product management for market data services at HSBC Securities…
Markit Signs Multi-Year Contract Renewal and Service Expansion with XSP to Streamline Corporate Actions Processing
XSP, the global leader in end-to-end Corporate Actions automation, announced today that Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, has signed up for XSP’s new Headline Indices functionality. Markit uses the XSP v5 platform to supply buy- and sell-side firms with daily calculations for its various index services. The addition of XSP’s Headline Indices…
Morningstar Launches Morningstar Analyst Rating for Funds, New Global Scale for Qualitative Ratings
Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment research, today launched the Morningstar Analyst Rating for funds, the company’s new global scale for qualitative fund ratings. The Morningstar Analyst Rating is a designation assigned by Morningstar fund research analysts around the world and derived from the company’s five pillar analytical framework that considers the following key…
M&G Investments Selects MoneyMate’s DataManager
MoneyMate, a leading provider of investment data management solutions to the global asset management industry, today announced that it has been selected by M&G Investments to implement DataManager to ensure the accurate, efficient and controlled delivery of M&G’s fund product data to internal departments, external agencies and external clients. DataManager will host M&G’s range of…
SNR Denton Helps First Data Obtain Approval from European Regulators for its Binding Corporate Rules for Data Privacy
SNR Denton has successfully helped First Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment processing, obtain approval from European Data Protection regulators for its Binding Corporate Rules for data privacy (BCRs). Today, the Information Commissioner’s Office granted authorisation of First Data’s BCRs, making it the eleventh company to obtain such authorization. First Data…
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….