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Interactive Data Reports Second-Quarter 2011 Results

Interactive Data Corporation today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. Interactive Data’s second-quarter 2011 revenue increased 11.5% to $216.3 million from $194.0 million in the second quarter of 2010. This marks the highest quarterly revenue in the Company’s history. Second-quarter 2011 revenue was reduced by $0.3 million due to…

LSE’s Acquisition of the UK FSA’s TRS for £15m Brings UnaVista’s Range of Functions to an Extended Client Base, Says Husler

The announcement this week that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is in the process of acquiring the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) approved reporting mechanism (ARM) is likely to be the first but not the last acquisition that the exchange operator will be making in the post-trade space this year, if CEO Xavier Rolet’s ambitions…

Virginie’s Blog – Entity Data Management Falls Down Cross Border

In the same week that the Royal Bank of Scotland’s US ops were slapped with a cease and desist order by the Fed for anti-money laundering (AML) and risk management failures (see more on which here), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) produced a working paper on the state of cross border AML compliance highlighting the…

Virginie’s Blog – More Than a Question of Technology

This afternoon I conducted my first ever twitterview (a twitter interview conducted via my handle @virginieateam) with Marcus Cree, director of risk solutions for SunGard’s capital markets and investment banking business (@MarcusCreeRisk), and Michael Versace, director of global risk at analyst firm IDC-Financial Insights (@versace57). Amusingly, given the format, the topic of conversation was the…

FSA Enters Into an Agreement to Sell TRS to the London Stock Exchange

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has entered into a conditional agreement to sell its Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) known as the Transaction Reporting System (TRS) to the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for £15m. The TRS is an ARM established in the UK market for the reporting of transactions in regulated instruments by firms to the…

Fed’s Cease and Desist Order for RBS Highlights the Data Issues Underlying its AML and Risk Management Practices

The issuance of a joint consent cease and desist order by the US Federal Reserve Board and a number of other state regulators last week for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group’s New York, Illinois and Connecticut branches indicates some of the data issues underlying its risk management and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance functions. The…

Large Trader Reporting and the Data Nightmare

Continuing on my ‘busy summer’ theme and adding to the seemingly constant barrage of new regulatory requirements, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has this week voted unanimously to adopt a new rule establishing large trader reporting requirements (see the release on the SEC’s website here). Of course, the aim of the new rule (as with…

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Signs for FRSGlobal’s Local Regulatory Reporting Solution for Hong Kong and Singapore

FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, a leading worldwide provider of compliance and risk management solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A has chosen its web-enabled local regulatory reporting solution for Hong Kong and Singapore. JPMorgan Chase, N.A. selected FRSGlobal after a selection process in which many factors…

Breaking New Ground with Ultra Low Latency Messaging

Inter Thread Communication (ITC) is not a new concept. Developers have been doing it for quite some time. However, doing it fast and well has been tricky. This mimics almost all of the modern day messaging communication primitives, such as IPC and reliable multicast. That is why I believe that ITC is the new ground…

MoneyMate Launches DataManager Version 1.6

MoneyMate, a specialist provider of investment data quality management solutions, today announced the availability of version 1.6 of DataManager, a cloud platform that enables global asset managers to oversee and control the quality, accuracy and timeliness of their client-facing product data. Featured additions to the platform include a new micro-site module and increased functionality around…