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Financial Service Firms Able to Significantly Improve Trade Lifecycle Management Through Partnership Between Misys and SmartStream
Misys, a global application software and services company, today announces that it has partnered with SmartStream Technologies to deliver improved risk control and greater efficiency across the entire trade transaction lifecycle. The partnership brings together two leading software providers to deliver a range of solutions that provide broad connectivity to market participants and exchanges, improve…
Confluence’s Botula and Powell Elaborate on Data Implications of Money Market Fund Reforms
Data management solution vendor Confluence is busy readying itself to be able to provide its US-based customers with a solution that will allow them to meet the requirements of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) incoming Money Market Fund Reform Rule. Kirk Botula, executive vice president and chief operating officer, and Scott Powell, product…
BIS Working Paper Highlights the Challenges in Data Aggregation for Systemic Risk Monitoring
The current regulatory focus on improving the monitoring of systemic risk at a global level is certainly a laudable aim, but the practical reality of drawing together a unified database that provides risk exposure data at an industry wide level is easier said than done. A recent Bank for International Settlements (BIS) working paper, written…
BNY Mellon’s Ingle Discusses the Data Challenges Inherent in the Derivatives Market Reform Process
The regulatory community is hell bent on increasing transparency into the derivatives market by any means necessary, including forcing OTC instruments to be cleared via central counterparties (CCPs) and requiring firms to report more data to new trade repositories. Reference Data Review speaks to Steve Ingle, derivatives product manager at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, to find out…
Dans Le Port d’Amsterdam
Earlier this month, Swift released its programme for the conference behemoth that is Sibos, this year to be held between 25 and 29 October in Amsterdam. The industry owned financial network operator has indicated that it will be focusing on the three Rs it believes to be the most important to the market at the…
LSE Adds Yet More to its UnaVista Platform by Adding Support for FIX and XML
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is certainly keen to add all the bells and whistles necessary to attract the maximum number of customers to its flagship post-trade platform UnaVista. Following the move of its transaction reporting service onto the platform earlier this month, the exchange operator has now added support for FIX and XML standards…
Netik Adds Another Ex-Deutsche Bank Exec Manaktala to Lead Expansion of Bangalore Operations
Following the exit of former CEO John Wise, former president Colin Close and long serving exec Keith Hale earlier this year, data management outsourcing solution vendor Netik had some serious management shoes to fill and, to this end, has added another ex-Deutsche Bank exec to its ranks in the form of Ishan Manaktala. Manaktala joins…
Interactive Data Delivers Faster Corporate Actions
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced new enhancements to its global Corporate Actions Service. Interactive Data has introduced new technology and internal workflow to deliver comprehensive global corporate actions and related information throughout the day that can help firms with their trading strategies and more effectively…
Consensus is the Hardest Word
If nothing else, the reference data utility panel at last week’s Xtrakter conference again proved how difficult it is to agree on the best way to proceed with data standardisation, even if the conversation about the subject has been ongoing for several years. Francis Gross, head of the external statistics division at the European Central…
Middle Office Cinderella Finally Getting its Day in the Spotlight Due to New Transparency Requirements, Says Op Risk Panel
The new transparency requirements that are being mooted as part of the MiFID review process by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) have resulted in a surge of interest and investment in the middle office, according to panellists discussing operational risk at last week’s Xtrakter user conference. Godfried De Vidts, director of European Affairs…