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Cosmos Releases Security and Reference Master
Cosmos Technologies, the product development arm of Indus Valley Partners, today announced general availability of Cosmos Security Master, a fully customizable, comprehensive security data management solution designed to centrally store and efficiently manage critical security information in a complex multi-fund, multi-strategy, multi-counterparty, multi-asset environment. Cosmos Security Master is the only commercial solution built from the…
UK FSA Reveals More About Plans for Soft Launch of Gabriel Liquidity Reporting, Pushes Back Data Quality Testing
During its most recent firms forum on the subject of liquidity reporting, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) confirmed that it is planning a soft launch for liquidity risk reporting on its online regulatory reporting system, Gathering Better Regulatory Information Electronically (Gabriel). As noted by the FSA in January, firms are being required to test…
Northern Trust Providing More Data for Fair Value, Adds New IFRS Valuation Toolkit
Custodian bank Northern Trust has been ramping up its efforts over the last 12 months to improve transparency for its end clients around fair valuation measurement, says Judson Baker, derivatives product manager at the bank. To this end, this week it has launched a new IFRS Valuation Toolkit aimed at providing a broad range of…
Risk Data Challenges Being Exacerbated by “List of Regulatory Unknowns”, Agree FS Club Panellists
The level of uncertainty in the industry due to the ongoing debate within the regulatory community with regards to new risk management reporting requirements has proved to be both a blessing and a curse to those in the data business. Panellists at this month’s FS Club agreed that the industry is being forced to take…
UK FSA Indicates BIC Codes are Needed for all Transaction Reporting Firms, Defers AII System Launch Indefinitely
This month, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has indicated that transaction reporting firms under MiFID will need to obtain a bank identifier code (BIC) in order to be in compliance with wider European level regulations. Firms will have to apply to Swift for a BIC before they email the transactions monitoring unit (TMU) with…
UK Organisations Take Naive Approach to Data Centre Management, Nlyte Software Research Reveals
Nlyte Software, a provider of data centre performance management solutions, today released the results of its recent research that surveyed 200 UK CIOs on the importance of better managing and optimising the data centre infrastructure. The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, shows a clear disconnect between reality and hype when it comes to implementing the…
Syntel Launches Pricing Services for Capital Markets, New Service Offering Powered by Numerix
Syntel, a global information technology services and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) company, today announced that it will begin providing independent pricing services to the company’s global buy side and sell side clients. Syntel will utilise Numerix’s cross-asset pricing and risk analytic technology to power the new offering. Syntel will also combine Numerix CrossAsset models and…
Markit Document Exchange Moving into Reference Data Extraction and Validation, Says Davenport
Since its launch back in 2008, Markit Document Exchange has finally got close to achieving critical mass, with an increase of funds using the documentation library from 5,000 to 15,000 over the last year alone. Penny Davenport, managing director and head of Markit Document Exchange, speaks to Reference Data Review about the vendor’s plan to move…
US Financial Reform Bill Includes Key Data Standardisation Recommendations
The recently published US Financial Reform Legislation Bill contains important data standardisation proposals including the establishment of an Office of Financial Research to monitor and collect data from across the industry. The new regulatory body would include a data centre that would be charged with doing the legwork, namely collecting, validating and maintaining all the…
IOSCO Elaborates on Data Template for Hedge Funds Risk Monitoring Purposes
Last month, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) Technical Committee published the details of the new agreed template for the global collection of hedge fund data in order to better manage systemic risk. These new data requirements are aimed at bringing a new level of transparency to the traditionally opaque sector but will, in…