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SimCorp Releases IFRS 9 Guide for Investment Firms
SimCorp, a leading provider of highly specialised software and expertise for the investment industry, announced today its guide to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9. The guide examines how investment firms can benefit from new measurement models and how they can leverage their IT platform to ensure compliance with the new regulation. The IFRS…
Latest SAS Risk Management Offerings for Banking, Insurance Help Address Regulations, Risk
To address evolving risk management practices and regulatory requirements, such as Basel III and Solvency II, SAS has ramped up risk management solutions for both banking and insurance with enhancements to SAS Risk Management for Banking and SAS Risk Management for Insurance. Leading organizations relying on enterprise risk solutions from SAS, the leader in business…
GBST Global Broker Services Launches Syn~2
GBST, the global financial services technology provider, announces the launch of Syn~2, the new suite of products which provide multi-asset, multi-market settlement solutions to capital markets. The Syn~2 offering provides enhanced usability to make it easier for management to control the trading process and monitor progress on an ongoing basis across markets. The product range,…
GoldenSource Helps Buy and Sell Side Institutions Achieve a Consolidated View of Risk with EDM 8.3.1
For financial firms looking to keep up with recent regulatory reform, GoldenSource Corporation, a leading enterprise data management solutions provider, has today announced the generally available release of EDM Suite version 8.3.1 (EDM 8.3.1). Already successfully implemented with a client through its Powered By program, EDM 8.3.1 consolidates disparate data feeds and provides increased functionality…
Reval’s Okochi and Trozzo Highlight Valuations and Data Impacts of US Swaps Market Reforms
It seems everyone’s talking about the data impacts of the Dodd Frank reforms at the moment. Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) hosted a public roundtable on the subject of the new recordkeeping requirements and related standards efforts, and derivatives risk and valuations solution provider Reval also hosted its own webinar on the…
CFTC Roundtable on Unique Product IDs Highlights Mountain Yet to Climb in Terms of Setting Instrument Standards
This week’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) public roundtable on the technical aspects of the introduction of new unique product identifiers (UPIs) highlighted the mountain still yet to climb in terms of setting instrument identification standards. Much recent progress has been made on the legal entity identification front as a result of the combined work…
Virginie’s Blog – What Would a US Derivatives Reform Delay Mean for the OFR?
It is no secret that the success of any new regulatory agency, such as the US Treasury’s recently established Office of Financial Research (OFR), is predicated on it receiving the political and financial support it needs to survive. But what happens if the foot is taken off the pedal of the derivatives reforms on which…
LCH.Clearnet Appoints Susan Milligan as Head of US Public Affairs
LCH.Clearnet has appointed Susan Milligan head of US public affairs. Based in Washington D.C., Susan will be responsible for representing LCH.Clearnet Group with the US Congress and the federal agencies and will liaise with the US media. Susan joins LCH.Clearnet from the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), where she managed federal government relations and all corporate…
US Regulatory Agencies Publish Op Risk Guidance Highlighting Importance of Data Inputs, Governance and Validation
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), along with the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), have published their interagency guidance for operational risk as part of the US adoption of the advanced measurement approach (AMA) for risk-based…
Commerzbank’s Natter Highlights Progress of its Data Management Project with Asset Control
Following its merger with Dresdner Bank in 2008, Commerzbank opted to integrate its risk management processes and instead of building an in-house solution for the data underlying those processes, it selected Asset Control’s AC Plus platform for the job. Speaking at last month’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in…