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Odds On?

The more people I speak to, the more cynical I get about the future of the US Office of Financial Research. It seems that some are even close to running a book on how long it will be before the government backs away from the idea, given the changing political dynamics on Capitol Hill. In…

Interactive Data Significantly Expands Global Content For Wealth Managers And Financial Advisors In Europe

Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it has significantly expanded the depth and breadth of global content available to wealth managers and financial advisors via PrimeTerminal Professional, its customisable financial desktop solution. PrimeTerminal now offers access to a vast wealth of independent fixed income evaluated…

Macquarie Extends Usage of GoldenSource Securities and Products

In 2009, Macquarie Securities Group has selected GoldenSource, an enterprise data management provider for the securities and investment management industry, to streamline the end-to-end data quality process, for its equity and equity derivatives business. Macquarie is now rolling out the technology across its other enterprise business lines.

FinDataPortal Enhances its Services with the Feed Manager Capability

FinDataPortal, a financial data portal with a new approach to data provision, announced today the release of its Feed Manager feature, enabling subscribers to create their own customised feed. FinDataPortal (FDP) is a platform through which clients can access datasets from different financial data providers in a way that is tailored to their specific needs….

T2S Meeting Highlights Ongoing Corporate Actions and Shareholder Transparency Concerns

Last month’s Target2-Securities (T2S) meeting at the European Central Bank (ECB) highlighted the progress that has been made by the Corporate Actions Sub-group (CASG) and the Shareholders Transparency Sub-group in attempting to sort out the data standardisation challenges in their respective areas of connecting to the pan-European settlement system, which is due to be launched…

Industry Has Until 22 February to Respond to CFTC’s Legal Entity Identification Proposals for the Swaps Market

Following on from the series of roundtables last year conducted by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to examine the data standardisation challenges underlying the provisions contained within the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the regulator has published a set of proposals in the Federal Register regarding the identification of counterparties…

Starting 2011 with a Bang?

As well as the customary fireworks displays around the world, the start of 2011 has seen the transformation of what was once the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) into the new (and supposedly improved) European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA, see the new website here). But, apart from the obvious change in moniker, what…

SEI Expands Middle Office Services with Enhanced Pricing and Valuation Capabilities

SEI today announced that it has extended its array of middle office services by enhancing its asset pricing and valuation validation solution for investment managers. The solution, which leverages the independent valuation and pricing models of industry leading third party pricing providers, is designed to provide managers with more accurate and independent pricing verification. The…

Senior Supervisors Group Report Highlights Need for Better Management of Risk Data

The aggregation of risk data remains a challenge within most financial institutions, according to a report released last month by the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG), which is comprised of 13 regulatory bodies from 10 countries. The report, Observations on Developments in Risk Appetite Frameworks and IT Infrastructure, indicates that although many firms have kicked off…

CESR Champions Underlying Reference Data Standardisation in its Latest OTC Platform Trading Advice for MiFID

In its latest technical advice to the European Commission as part of the ongoing MiFID review, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has reprised its data standardisation theme as the “preliminary step on the way to organised platform trading” of OTC derivatives. Progress within the front office is therefore predicated on getting the data foundations…