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SunGard’s Scianna on the Position, Risk and Ops Focused Restructure and Plans for the Stream Solution Set This Year
As part of its overall push to better integrate its various solution sets following so many acquisitions over the last few years, SunGard has created a new division focused on supporting the position, risk and operations functions within financial institutions. Various parts from the old brokerage and clearance business, the wider capital markets group and…
Precise Time – A Data Centre Utility
Endace suggests the Commission should require any of these venues that offer co-location services to make GPS timing signals available to users of the venues at a “reasonable cost”. This has already been advocated in an article I wrote for Equinix’s Winter 2010/2011 Newsletter. If you missed it first time around, here’s a ‘reprint’: We’ve…
New Commodity Derivatives IDs Likely to Prove a Headache for Both the Industry and Regulators
As well as highlighting the legal entity identification challenges that the industry is likely to face as a result of the MiFID review, attendees to this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting also elaborated on the instrument identification challenges of the European Commission’s planned extension of the directive to cover the OTC and commodity derivatives….
SEC Proposes First in Series of Rule Amendments to Remove References to Credit Ratings
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose amendments to its rules that would remove credit ratings as one of the conditions for companies seeking to use short-form registration when registering securities for public sale. Section 939A of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires federal agencies to review how…
MiFID Transaction Reporting Group Meeting Highlights UK Specific Client and Counterparty ID Challenges
The UK is likely to face a significant challenge in the identification of clients and counterparties at an individual level on a national basis, as specified by the current proposals under the auspices of the MiFID review, according to participants at this week’s MiFID Transaction Reporting Group meeting. Rather than opting for firm level identification…
Swift’s Recently Promoted Vandenreydt Calls for Global Coordination of Legal Entity ID Standards
Following its recent submission to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) on the subject of legal entity identification, Swift’s Fabian Vandenreydt speaks to Reference Data Review about why he feels Europe and the US are on the same page with regards to standardisation of this space. Vandenreydt, who was recently promoted to head of Securities and…
UPDATED: A-Team’s Comprehensive Guide to the Legal Entity ID Feedback to the OFR
The start of this week saw the passing of deadline for feedback to the Office of Financial Research on the subject of legal entity identification and it appears that a number of recurring themes crop up in the 30 different responses (updated entries included) submitted by various industry associations, including concerns about the tight timelines impacting…
Quantifi Announces 2010 Success in New Markets
Quantifi, a leading provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced that 2010 was a positive year for the firm as a result of its success in new markets, innovative product launches and industry recognition. “2010 was a busy and exciting year for Quantifi with significant new product…
ISO Standards for Legal Entity Data are More Important Than Those for Corporate Actions, Says PaceMetrics’ Giblin
The development of ISO standards for legal entity data should be prioritised over the push to get the industry to adopt ISO 20022 within the corporate actions world, according to Gerry Giblin, CEO of EDM vendor PaceMetrics. In the fifth in our series of talking heads on the challenges surrounding entity data management in the…
Sifma Hires a Project Manager to Champion its Interests and Those of Seven Other Associations on the OFR LEI Issue
The combined response submitted by the Clearing House Association, EDM Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Futures Industry Association (FIA), International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the Investment Company Institute, the Managed Funds Association (MFA) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) may be only one of the 20 received this week by…