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Algorithmics Enhances Solvency II Standard Formula Reporting
Algorithmics, the leading provider of risk solutions, today announced enhancements to its Solvency II Standard Formula reporting capabilities with the launch of a new web-based Standard Formula reporting product: Algo Audit and Compliance. The product is designed to address Pillars 2 and 3 of Solvency II which require insurance firms conducting business in Europe to…
How Will the FSB’s Shadow Banking Taskforce Tackle the Data Standards Issue?
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has recently indicated that its shadow banking taskforce is working on some recommendations for strengthening the oversight of the non-bank systemically important sector, which will necessarily require these firms to provide detailed legal entity structural and hierarchical data to the regulatory community. But how will the community tackle the oversight…
Quality of Regulatory Authorities More Important Than Structure, BBA Tells Parliamentary Committee
The UK’s new financial regulators will need clear lines of responsibility and the right statutory objectives if they are to meet their intended aims, the BBA has told the joint committee of MPs and Lords scrutinising the new Financial Services Bill. More important than the new regulatory structure will be clarity in the chain of…
The IMS Group Appoints Three New Compliance Consultants
The IMS Group (IMS), the compliance and regulation consultancy, has appointed three new compliance consultants. The new hires are Diana Stevens, Cynthia Griffith and Daniel Sharpe. Diana joins IMS from multi-billion dollar hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management, L.P, where she assumed the day to day coverage of compliance in its London branch. Her areas…
ESMA Provides FAQ on Common Definitions for European Money Market Funds Under UCITS
As part of the revised Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Directive in Europe, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Q&A document that details its guidelines for regulators regarding common definitions for the supervision of money market funds. The paper is aimed at getting European regulators in synch with…
BlueBay Asset Management Goes Live with Vermilion KIID Solution
BlueBay Asset Management Ltd (‘BlueBay’), a market leading asset management company, went live with Vermilion Software’s outsourced Key Investor Information Document (‘KIID’) reporting service, VRS KIID, in July 2011. This followed an extensive selection process, including the review of the other KIID reporting offerings in the market place. BlueBay selected Vermilion in April of this…
CPSS and IOSCO Trade Repositories Paper Promotes Global LEI and International Product Classification System
The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions’ (IOSCO) joint working group last week produced a consultative report on the means via which OTC derivatives data should be collected, stored and disseminated by trade repositories across the globe. The report notes the information gaps that currently exist in…
IMS Responds to Government’s Money Laundering Consultation
The IMS Group (IMS), the compliance and regulation consultant, has today responded to the Government’s consultation on reviewing Money Laundering Regulations 2007. The consultation period closes on 30 August 2011. The Government’s proposals are intended to give businesses greater confidence to focus compliance on their highest risk areas and to discourage the tick-box approach taken…
Firms Likely to Wait Until November Deadline to Comply with AII Reporting Requirements, Says Xtrakter’s Dingley
Although the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has provided a four month window for firms to become compliant with transaction reporting using the Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII), firms are likely to wait until the final November deadline for compliance before they begin using the new derivative instrument ID, according to Christopher Dingley, product manager for…
FATCA Compliance Will Cost Banks 5 Times that of Client Money Compliance, Warns Crossbridge
Crossbridge , the financial markets consultancy, today warned that complying with the incoming FATCA legislation from the US could cost investment banks five times as much as complying with the UK’s new CASS regulations, which will be implemented in little over a month’s time. Indeed, one bank that Crossbridge is working with has assigned 40%…