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Bank of Beijing Undertakes New Initiative to Incorporate Accuity’s AML Solutions
Accuity, the leading provider of payment routing data, anti-money laundering (AML) screening software, and services, is pleased to announce that Bank of Beijing, one of China’s largest commercial banks, has selected Accuity’s Compliance Link and Global WatchList. Compliance Link, Accuity’s modular enterprise-wide interdiction screening solution, and Global WatchList, Accuity’s proprietary collection of sanctions, enhanced due…
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…
Princeton Financial Optimizes Data Management of Hauck & Aufhaeuser in Record Time
Hauck & Aufhäuser Investment Gesellschaft S.A. (HAIG), a service provider for the conception and administration of funds, needed to replace their fund accounting system while maintaining operation of all business-critical systems. Due to Princeton Financial® Systems? (PFS) extensive experience in this area, they successfully supported HAIG in this project and simultaneously established a system architecture…
Broadridge’s Access Data Introduces Unique Tax Management Solution for Mutual Funds and ETFs
Broadridge Financial Solutions today announced a unique tax management solution providing mutual fund managers and ETF sponsors access to data to accurately calculate state tax obligations. Broadridge’s Multi-State Tax Management solution, the first of its kind, collects, organises and tabulates shareholder account data across distribution channels in all 50 states, without divulging specific shareholder information….
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…