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ISDA Leads Industry Effort to Standardize the Credit Support Annex
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today outlined key provisions to the Standard Credit Support Annex (SCSA) proposal as part of its continuing efforts to increase efficiency and improve standardization in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. The SCSA proposal addresses three primary objectives. The SCSA seeks to standardize market practices by removing embedded…
New Interactive Performance & Risk Reporting from BNY Mellon Improves Transparency for Institutional Investors
BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has introduced a number of enhancements to its Performance & Risk Analytics reporting that offer dynamic, new interactive capability enabling clients to customize, drill-down, and gain greater insight into their portfolio returns. The company’s new Interactive Performance Report (IPR) makes these new features available…
EFAMA Publishes Briefing on the European Fund Classification (EFC)
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published the second edition of its “European Fund Classification” (EFC) Forum Briefing which updates on progress made towards the adoption and enhancement of the EFC so far this year. The EFC has been launched with a view to enhancing the integrity of European investment funds. The…
Opinion: LEIs – The Need for a System
By Chris Pickles, head of industry initiatives, BT Global Banking and Financial Markets On 15 October the finance ministers and central bankers of the G20 economies issued a communiqué that said: “We underscored our support for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system which uniquely identifies parties to financial transactions with an appropriate governance structure…
Opinion: Moving One Step Closer to a Global LEI
By Bill Meenaghan, global product manager for Alert, Omgeo Support from the G20 group of finance ministers and central bank governors for a global legal entity identifier (LEI) system is a promising development and one that, we hope, will encourage momentum towards the adoption of the LEI standard. With the second phase of the ISO…
ISDA Unveils New Mission Statement
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) announced today that its board of directors has updated its mission statement to reflect the Association’s evolving mandate in the rapidly changing global derivatives markets. The new mission statement is: ISDA fosters safe and efficient derivatives markets to facilitate effective risk management for all users of derivative…
Hedge Fund Standards Board Announces New Core Supporters
Aon Hewitt, the investment consultants, and two leading investment firms, Aberdeen Asset Management and Investcorp, have joined the Core Supporters group of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB). The Core Supporters group, which includes investors, investment consultants and hedge fund managers, is made up of leading backers of the HFSB. Dame Amelia Fawcett, Chairman of…
Virginie’s Blog – Regulatory Change and LEI Discussions Dominate at DMRAV (Not to Mention the G20 Meeting)
As I previously predicted, the spectre of incoming regulation and the standards developments around a new legal entity identifier (LEI) were popular topics for discussion at yesterday’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in London. Panellists and delegates alike discussed the changing dynamics within the data management universe that have meant much…
Financial Intergroup’s Grody and BT’s Pickles Debate the LEI Issue
Following on from the questions about the legal entity identification (LEI) work going on as a part of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) efforts to determine a global standard that were raised by BT Global Banking & Financial Markets’ head of industry initiatives Chris Pickles last week,…
Omgeo’s Freeman on the Changing Dynamics of the SSI Space
Reference Data Review speaks with Omgeo’s executive director of industry relations Tony Freeman about the vendor’s recent research into the settlement and account instruction (SSI) space, which highlights the high number of trade fails caused by problems with SSI data. Freeman also elaborates on the changing dynamics in the SSI space caused by increased competition…