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Data Management is Now Partnering with Risk and Compliance, Rather than Being a Poor Second Cousin, Says RBC’s Sutton
The increased attention being focused on data management by senior execs has resulted in the function being viewed as more of a partner to risk or compliance teams within financial institutions, according to Julia Sutton, global head of customer data and onboarding at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Speaking at the recent EDM Council and…
JWG Risk Research Recommends Firms Focus on Getting Workable Risk Datasets in Place
After two years of scrambling to assemble new regulatory reports, firms now have a brief window of opportunity to rethink the risk information capabilities they need to satisfy both customers and regulators. However, it does not appear that many are taking advantage of the chance to redesign their current risk architectures. ‘Getting risk information right’,…
IOSCO Forms Coordination Task Force for OTC Derivatives, Data Standards on the Agenda
The Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has formed a new Task Force on OTC Derivatives Regulation in order to coordinate securities and futures regulators’ efforts to work together in the development of supervisory and oversight structures for these markets; one aspect of which will be defining data standards for regulatory…
Transaction Reporting to be Limited to Eight Categories of OTC Derivatives, New Common Data Standards on the Way, Says CESR
As part of the overall ongoing review of MiFID, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has added further qualifications to the OTC derivatives that must be included in transaction reports and indicated that for these instruments further “common data standards” are incoming. This follows the consultation paper it released with regards to classification changes…
Behind the Scenes
One week to go before Sibos and, according to Swift’s figures from today, there are 7,489 delegates signed up so far. Let’s hope at least some of that number care about reference data; otherwise the utility panel on the first day might be a little quiet (apart from the panellists that is). And it is…
SRL Global Chooses SIX Telekurs for Pricing and Index Data
SRL Global, originally established as a trading and technology joint venture with Man Group Plc in 2007, now an independent specialist technology boutique offering its services to financial buy side institutions, recently signed an agreement with SIX Telekurs UK Ltd to take end of day pricing and index benchmark data for its NEXUS Enterprise Solution….
A Rethink, Redesign and Retool is Needed for Systemic Risk Monitoring, Contends JWG’s Di Giammarino
In order to be able to properly monitor systemic risk, the industry first needs to understand the gaps in the current data framework and then rethink, redesign and retool the method of controlling “the system”, according to PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of JWG. Speaking at the FS Club event on systemic risk last week, Di…
Cadis Hosts SIX Telekurs Data
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced the availability of a Cadis hosted version of SIX Telekurs’ main product, the Valordata Feed (VDF). The Cadis SaaS version will enable SIX Telekurs clients to consume all VDF data in any file format, at any latency within hours. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “Our hosted version…
B-next Launches MACOC:AML and MACOC:Fraud
B-next, a provider of market conformity software solutions to financial institutions, announces the release of MACOC:AML and MACOC:Fraud. B-next has partnered with Cellent Finance Solutions, a leading vendor in enterprise-wide analysis of risks and hazards, integrating its AML and fraud solution into its MACOC platform and can also connect to b-next’s MACOC:Cockpit. This MACOC:Suite offers…
CFTC Roundtable on Swaps Data Repositories Recommends Entity Identifiers Should be Kept Simple
As noted by Reference Data Review earlier this year, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is examining the data standardisation challenges underlying the provisions contained within the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act relating to the introduction of new swaps data repositories. To this end, last month saw the CFTC conduct a public roundtable…