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Surge of Regulations Prompt Fund and Asset Managers to Leverage Technology
With increasing demands for operational transparency, improving risk management and staying abreast of regulatory developments, the technology used to manage these functions has become a key focus for fund and asset managers. Managers are recognising the necessity to update or employ new management systems to increase efficiency of their operations and compete for client assets….
S&P’s Jones Talks up its Bond Pricing and Valuation Offering, First in a New Line of Offerings
Following its recent (and long anticipated) official rebrand, S&P Capital IQ has released the first in a series of upgrades to its valuations biz in the form of a new bond pricing and valuation offering, which purports to provide an “independent and transparent view of multiple pricing and valuation approaches across a single issue.” Peter…
MIK Releases Enhanced SEC Master
MIK Fund Solutions, a leading provider of software solutions for hedge funds, today announced the release of a comprehensive and integrated security master solution for hedge funds and asset managers. The offering is designed as an integrated application for the tracking, reporting and processing of all security master terms and conditions and reporting attributes across…
IRM Appoints José Morago as Director
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is pleased to announce the appointment of José Morago to its board of directors with immediate effect. José is the European Enterprise Risk Director for Aviva, where he is responsible for risk oversight, governance and capital management of Aviva’s European operations in 12 countries. He is also responsible for…
Financial Institutions Should Focus on Unstructured Financial Data in the Rush for Effective Risk Management, Warns ClusterSeven
Financial institutions will continue to report high profile instances of data mismanagement and fraud unless they take 100% control of the vulnerable financial data files that move and manipulate information between their business systems. These include files known as CSVs* (comma separated variable), plus spreadsheets and Microsoft Access Databases. Systemic failings in the way these…
Prominent German Pension Fund Selects SimCorp Dimension
A renowned German occupational pension fund with more than EUR 6bn under management has selected SimCorp Dimension as its future investment management system. SimCorp Dimension will be used as a seamlessly integrated solution, from portfolio management to accounting, for the firm’s entire range of investments. Critical to the pension fund’s choice of SimCorp Dimension was…
ISDA Reiterates Support for Global Trade and Counterparty Exposure Repositories in Comment Letter on CPSS/IOSCO Consultative Report
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) filed a comment letter on September 23 with the Committee on Payment and Settlements Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) in response to their consultative report on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives data reporting and aggregation requirements. In the letter, ISDA reiterated the need for…
LBBW Takes Control if its Data with Xenomorph’s TimeScape
As part of its market data management project to improve the internal model for Market Risk calculations, LBBW (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg), one of Germany’s largest banks, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management solution. TimeScape provides the bank with a high performance data management system which enhances risk management, delivers validated market data based upon…
Opinion: MiFIR – Flat-Packed Furniture Without the Instructions?
By Matthew Coupe, director of sales and marketing, Redkite Financial Markets The proposed Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) has left me questioning what this piece of European regulation is actually going to achieve. Will the final legislation give the financial industry a set of clear-cut rules to follow and be accountable to? Or is…
Thomson Reuters Grows Legal Entity Data Solution to Address Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of an expanded legal entity data solution, which will be available for retrieval via Thomson Reuters DataScope Select and Thomson Reuters DataScope Onsite. This offering significantly expands the firm’s legal entity content capability, which is approaching coverage of 1 million entities across nearly 250 markets and 50 languages. Thomson…