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Industry Groups Petition Against CESR’s Proposed Client Categorisation Regime Changes Under MiFID
Industry groups and associations including the Alternative Investment Management Association (Aima), the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Futures and Options Association (FOA) have all indicated that they do not wish the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) to push ahead with its proposed changes to the MiFID client categorisation regime as…
AFME, ISDA and Italy’s Assosim Support Transaction Reporting Via Repositories, Greater Data Standardisation
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and Italy’s Associazione Italiana Intermediari Mobiliari (Assosim) have pledged their support for trade repositories to be recognised as valid third party reporting mechanisms under Article 25(5) of MiFID, thus instating them as official transaction reporting (and related reference data) repositories…
Tykoczinski Joins Kinetic Partners, Bolstering Risk and Valuation Services
Isabelle Tykoczinski has been appointed a member at Kinetic Partners, and will be joining the London risk team to strengthen and develop Kinetic Partners’ current risk offering. This new appointment will further enhance Kinetic’s capabilities across the risk spectrum, backed up by proven execution capabilities, including its Risk and Valuation Services (RVS) platform and analytics….
SCV Reforms Still Failing to Gain Widespread Industry Attention, Says JWG’s Di Giammarino
The 31 July deadline for submission of firms’ pre-implementation reports for compliance with the incoming Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) Single Customer View (SCV) reforms may have passed but the majority of the “great and the good” in the financial services world are still not ready to talk about the customer data changes required as part…
FRSGlobal adds two Vice-Presidents to Executive Management Committee
FRSGlobal, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Nancy Schneier as Vice President Global Alliances and Wolfgang Prinz as Vice President Product Management. Nancy joins with over 25 years’ experience of selling and delivering technology solutions in the financial services industry, managing…
UnaVista Expands Transaction Reporting and Reference Data Checking Services to Dutch Market
As promised by Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the London Stock Exchange (LSE), back in May, the exchange operator has extended its transaction reporting service beyond its traditional UK remit into the Netherlands. The LSE has therefore received approval from the Dutch regulator, the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), to act as…
BIS IFC Plans Event on Regulatory “Data Gaps” Revealed by the Crisis, Will a Reference Data Utility be Discussed?
The Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) Irving Fisher Committee (IFC), which was set up to discuss issues related to statistical monitoring by regulators across the globe, is planning to discuss the data gaps highlighted by the financial crisis at its fifth annual conference in Basel this month. Given the theme, it is likely that discussion…
The Consolidated Tape Iceman Cometh
We read the latest CESR advice on transaction reporting with alarm. In short, it suggested that the market had failed to find its own solution to the challenge of transaction reporting in a fragmented liquidity environment. But has it? Since the implementation of MiFID in 2007, the market has seen the launch of a specific,…
UK FSA’s £5.6m Fine for RBS Group Highlights Need for Greater Investment in Customer Data Management
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) £5.6 million fine for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group this week for the group’s failure to have adequate data checks in place to conduct mandatory anti-money laundering (AML) screening is indicative of the need for firms to get a better handle on their customer data. According to the…
CESR’s Advice on Transaction Reporting Accepts High Cost of the Introduction of New Entity Identifiers, the BIC Will Have to Do…
As part of its overall technical advice to the European Commission on the subject of MiFID, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has indicated that although the introduction of a “meaningful” and unique pan-European legal entity identifier for transaction reporting purposes is desirable, it isn’t practical in the short term. In its package of…