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Strate Completes Corporate Actions Automation Project for South African Market with TCS
Four years ago, South African central securities depository (CSD) Strate launched its project to automate its equity corporate actions processing and, a year later, in September 2008 it engaged the services of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to develop the new system. Following a period of development and testing, the system has now gone live and…
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…
Swift’s Aggarwal Confirms the Securities Reference Data Items that Have Made the Cut in the New 2015 Strategy
Financial industry network operator Swift has finally signed off its new five year strategic plan, but how many of the reference data items mentioned by securities head Chris Church back in January have made the final cut? Arun Aggarwal, Swift’s managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, explains to Reference Data Review that the development of…
Fiserv Selects Omgeo ProtoColl as Collateral Management Solution
Fiserv, a provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that it will utilise Omgeo ProtoColl as its dynamic collateral management solution. Using Omgeo ProtoColl, new and existing Fiserv customers on the TradeFlow platform will be able to automate their collateral management process, handle numerous asset classes and increase visibility into credit exposure to mitigate…
Rana Joins XSP as Senior Business Analyst for EMEA in London
XSP announced today the appointment of Harry Rana as senior business analyst for EMEA. Rana will be responsible for supporting the expanding EMEA sales programme and client base for the XSP Corporate Actions software platform in a pre-sales and business analyst capacity. Based in London, Rana will report to Neil Sheppard, managing director and chief…
New Data Quality Standards on the Table in CESR’s MiFID Technical Advice to the Commission
Following the feedback received during the recent consultation period, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has finally produced its technical advice for the European Commission regarding the establishment of a sequel to MiFID. As well as the expected proposals for a European consolidated tape, the papers also include a number of recommendations related to…
SmartStream’s Ex-reference Data Utility Head Mason Resurfaces as COO of Netik
The switchboard at Netik must be having one hell of a time at the moment, given the range of new names they have had to memorise to take into account the catalogue of people moves that have gone on at the data management outsourcing solution vendor so far this year. The latest new recruit to…
Asset Control’s Lynch and Enfield Elaborate on Capital Group Implementation
Earlier this month, investment management firm Capital Group signed up to roll out Asset Control’s AC Plus and AC Connect solutions as its new enterprise data management platform, president and CEO of the vendor Phil Lynch and AC Plus business owner Rick Enfield explain that the firm selected the solution due to its productised approach…
CGS’ Purcell Explains Why the DTCC Tie up Could be Beneficial for Cabre and Elaborates on Recent Progress
Since the announcement of the launch of their entity identifier joint venture back in February, Cusip Global Services and Avox have been steadily working on increasing the coverage of their Cusip Avox Business Reference Entity identifier (Cabre) codes. According to Darren Purcell, European director for CGS, the vendors currently have in the range 300,000 such…
CFTC Calls for Industry Feedback on Data Repositories and Standards for Swaps
As part of its endeavour to improve transparency within the swaps market and in a follow up to the passing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is asking firms to provide feedback on 30 areas of change including the regulatory proposals related to swap…