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Markit Calls for a Data Aggregator Within Swaps Data Repository Space
In its feedback to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) joint proposals regarding reporting to swaps data repositories, derivatives specialist vendor Markit suggests the industry needs a data aggregator in order to gather together the data spread across the various repositories in the market. This indicates that Markit may…
ICFR Meeting Calls for Increased Consistency of Supervisory Data Collection, Global Coordination
The International Centre for Financial Regulation’s (ICFR) recent meeting on macroprudential data scoping highlighted a number of concerns related to the collection of data for the monitoring of systemic risk, not least of which was the need for global coordination among regulators. Attendees to the meeting, which took place earlier this month in London under…
Daewoo Securities Selects Pricing Partners’ Financial Analytics Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today the signing of Daewoo Securities, the largest stock brokerage and investment banking firm in South Korea, as the its first South Korean client. The agreement was signed through its regional partner Belatos. Under this groundbreaking agreement, Daewoo Securities will deploy Pricing Partners’ entire financial pricing and analytics solutions, Price-it Library suite…
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…
DTCC’s Not So Subtle Positioning
Last year, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) kicked off its bid to set itself up as an industry data utility with the acquisition of UK-based counterparty and entity data vendor Avox, but at that point, it was rather cautious about publically declaring its intentions in the regulatory data space. Not so this year,…
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…
DTCC Launches Portal Providing Regulators Globally Direct, Online Access to CDS Data
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today, that it has launched an automated portal to provide regulators worldwide with direct, online access to global credit default swap (CDS) data registered in DTCC’s Warehouse Trust Company LLC (Warehouse Trust) global repository. Currently 19 regulators around the world are already live on the portal. This…
SunGard’s Scianna on the Position, Risk and Ops Focused Restructure and Plans for the Stream Solution Set This Year
As part of its overall push to better integrate its various solution sets following so many acquisitions over the last few years, SunGard has created a new division focused on supporting the position, risk and operations functions within financial institutions. Various parts from the old brokerage and clearance business, the wider capital markets group and…
Project Brokers’ Cox Highlights Ref Data and Risk Management Applications of Biz Intelligence Software
In light of the current regulatory scrutiny of reference data, there has been a recent surge in the number of downstream data monitoring software solutions on the market and Project Brokers’ QlikView is a case in point. Daren Cox, CEO and managing director of the self-styled business intelligence consultancy, which was established back in 2005,…