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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,…
Precise Time – A Data Centre Utility
Endace suggests the Commission should require any of these venues that offer co-location services to make GPS timing signals available to users of the venues at a “reasonable cost”. This has already been advocated in an article I wrote for Equinix’s Winter 2010/2011 Newsletter. If you missed it first time around, here’s a ‘reprint’: We’ve…
New Commodity Derivatives IDs Likely to Prove a Headache for Both the Industry and Regulators
As well as highlighting the legal entity identification challenges that the industry is likely to face as a result of the MiFID review, attendees to this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting also elaborated on the instrument identification challenges of the European Commission’s planned extension of the directive to cover the OTC and commodity derivatives….
MiFID Transaction Reporting Group Meeting Highlights UK Specific Client and Counterparty ID Challenges
The UK is likely to face a significant challenge in the identification of clients and counterparties at an individual level on a national basis, as specified by the current proposals under the auspices of the MiFID review, according to participants at this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting. Rather than opting for firm level identification…
Swift’s Recently Promoted Vandenreydt Calls for Global Coordination of Legal Entity ID Standards
Following its recent submission to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) on the subject of legal entity identification, Swift’s Fabian Vandenreydt speaks to Reference Data Review about why he feels Europe and the US are on the same page with regards to standardisation of this space. Vandenreydt, who was recently promoted to head of Securities and…