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ESMA Approves Trade Repositories for EMIR and Sets February Deadline for Derivatives Reporting
The reporting deadline for European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has been set for February 12, 2014, following the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) approval of four trade repositories for derivatives trading. A request by ESMA to delay the reporting deadline for exchange-traded derivatives by a year has been turned down by the European Commission….
Global LEI System Takes Two Small Steps Towards Operation
The Global Legal Entity Identifier System (GLEIS) has inched forward with operational moves being made by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) to address reference data issues around the LEI and by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to accept LEIs from all endorsed pre-local operating units (LOUs). The Secretariat of the ROC has written a…
Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Sketch Roadmap for Algo Testing Facility
The tie-up of Nasdaq OMX and Thesys Technologies to deliver an algorithm testing facility is expected to endure beyond initial plans to offer algo testing for US equities trading and take testing into other asset classes over time. It is also expected to help trading firms get ahead of any regulatory mandates that may set…
Peel Hunt Signs Up for Wolters Kluwer FS’s New Summix Risk Platform
UK brokerage Peel Hunt has deployed Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ recently released Summix risk, compliance and finance platform. The system integrates technologies from acquired software providers FRS Global and FinArch, providing an upgrade path for users of these systems as well as a platform for new clients like Peel Hunt. Peel Hunt selected Summix for…
A-Team Hot Topic Webinar: Data Management – A Finance, Risk & Regulatory View
Business knowledge, data centralisation and data consistency are at the heart of successful data management for finance, risk and regulation, particularly as it applies to the complexity of financial institutions operating across multiple regulatory environments. The challenges to bringing these elements together are significant, but they can be tackled and results can include not only…
Citicom Solutions Fulfils Dodd-Frank Trade Recording and Reconstruction Requirements
Citicom Solutions is pushing its Assure voice and text data capture and analysis solution beyond the UK and into the US market with a view to helping financial firms meet Dodd-Frank regulation requiring swap trading communications to be recorded and trades to be reconstructed. The real-time solution is also designed to provide a proactive view…
Market Surveillance Requires Systems that are Lean, Fast and Flexible
In a highly regulated trading market that is growing in complexity, yet must prove transparency, market surveillance is a significant challenge – but it can be addressed using technologies that span systems and data management, and deliver real-time alerts of potential abuse in the market. The pressing issues of surveillance and how best to tackle…
IBM Combines Algo Risk Service with Managed Data to Deliver Cloud Risk Analytics
IBM has combined its Algo Risk Service, a cloud-based risk offering acquired with Algorithmics in 2011, with cloud managed data services to deliver IBM Algo Risk Service on Cloud, a risk analytics solution that transforms upstream and downstream data to make it available for portfolio and enterprise risk modelling. The service is offered as a…
Oddo Asset Management Selects CounterpartyLink for Entity Data
Oddo Asset Management has selected CounterpartyLink to supply validated legal entity data and links to pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) that will be used to support regulatory requirements such as Know Your Customer (KYC). The French asset manager has online access to CounterpartyLink’s central entity database, which includes content defined by and used by clients. Tanguy…
Global Legal Entity Identifier System is Moved Another Step Closer to Completion
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system has taken another significant step forward with the endorsement of three pre-Local Operating Units (LOUs) and the exclusion of 3,000 pre-LEI CFTC Interim Compliance Identifier (CICI) codes from the system. It is also finalising the appointment of a board directors for the…