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Instrument and Entity Identification are Key Issues for MiFID Forum’s Transaction Reporting Subject Group
Given the high profile fines that have been handed out over the last 12 months in the UK for data related transaction reporting failures, it is no surprise that the subject of entity and instrument identification is top of the list for the recently formed Transaction Reporting Subject Group of the MiFID Forum. Alan Jenkins,…
Principia Adds Intex Performance Data to Structured Finance Platform
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance investments, today announced its integration of Intex performance data into the Principia Structured Finance Platform (Principia SFP). Intex Historical Collateral Performance Data for an extensive range of measures, including delinquency, loss and prepayment rates for over 23,000 Intex modelled RMBS, ABS, CMBS…
QBE European Operations Selects DataFlux to Improve the Value of its Corporate Information
DataFlux, a provider of data management solutions, today announced that QBE, a business insurance specialist with operations in 18 European markets, has selected DataFlux technology to help it improve the quality of data within its European data warehouse and to enhance its data migration process for systems consolidation. QBE will use DataFlux technology to standardise,…
Euroclear Management Reshuffle Continues, May is Next Out of the Door
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has certainly had its fair share of people moves this year, with the departure of a number of its Xtrakter subsidiary execs earlier this year and the upcoming addition of ex-BNP Paribas Fortis exec Lieve Mostrey as chief technology and services officer at the start of next month. Following a…
B-Next’s Fabisch Talks up Growth Plans, Two New London-based Clients
Following its decision to partner with Interactive Data and set up UK-based operations last year, compliance and regulatory reporting platform vendor b-next has bagged two new clients in London and is searching for new recruits to bolster its team in the city. The vendor is looking to hire on the ground staff to deal with…
Resolving Symbols and Enabling Choice (Sponsored Article)
By Mark Woolfenden, managing director of FOW TRADEdata The choice of and the investment in trading solutions for both the buy side and sell side of the derivatives industry is an important determinant in the degree to which competition exists in brokerage and other trading related services. Well managed instrument symbology enables sell side firms…
DTCC Names Leonard Head of Operational Risk
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced today that it has named Andrew Leonard as managing director and head of Operational Risk for DTCC. In this new position, Leonard will report directly to Donald Donahue, DTCC chairman and chief executive officer. Leonard is a financial industry veteran with more than 25 years’ experience leading…
Thomson Reuters Launches Governance, Risk and Compliance Business Unit
Thomson Reuters today announced the creation of a new business dedicated to serving customers across the span of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). The new business brings together Thomson Reuters GRC brands including Complinet, Paisley, Westlaw Business, West’s Capitol Watch, Oden and Westlaw Compliance Advisor. It will be led by Thomson Reuters former chief strategy…
Barrage of New Regulation Could Cause Death by Data Drowning, Warns ISMAG’s Gubert
The slew of new regulations entering into force over the next few years, including a new iteration of MiFID, the multiple legislative changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act and the Securities Law Directive (to name just a few), will result in such an increase in reporting requirements that firms may find themselves in danger of…
Are Barcodes Really the Answer to the Industry’s Ref Data Woes?
Given the repeated calls for the financial services industry to learn from other industries with regards to data management techniques, it was really only a matter of time before the idea of barcodes was mooted as a potential solution to entity and instrument identification. But is this a realistic idea or just another to add…