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UK FSA Grants Approval to Xtrakter for the Regulatory Reporting of Derivatives Using AII Codes
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) February deadline for the introduction of the Alternative Instrument Identifiers (AII) is fast approaching and this week the regulator has granted Trax platform operator Xtrakter approval to regulatory report exchange traded derivatives (ETD) using the new identifiers. Jason Waight, Xtrakter’s recently appointed director of product management, explains to Reference Data…
SmartCo’s Mougin Talks up CounterpartyLink Partnership
Following the announcement earlier in the week that entity data vendor CounterpartyLink and SmartCo have integrated their offerings, Pascal Mougin, chairman of the EDM vendor speaks to A-Team Group about his perspective on the tie up. Mougin explains that the choice to work with the entity data vendor was a relatively simple one: “CounterpartyLink is…
Bloomberg’s BSYM Open Symbology Seeks Gain from Rivals’ Regulatory Travails
To suggest Bloomberg’s introduction this month of its Bloomberg Open Symbology (BSYM) initiative is in no way connected to the recent regulatory activity in this space would be naive. Bloomberg clearly has one eye on the travails of rivals Standard & Poor’s and Thomson Reuters, both of which are having trouble with EU anti-competition investigators….
European Commission Finally Releases S&P ISIN Fees Judgement, Considers Vendor to be Abusing its Dominant Position
Following 10 months of deliberation, the European Commission has finally released its preliminary findings on its inquiry into Standard & Poor’s pricing practices concerning International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs). According to its recent memo, the Commission considers the vendor to be “abusing its dominant position” as the sole appointed National Numbering Agency (NNA) for US…
Is the Industry Focusing on the Right Things?
This year’s FIMA demonstrated one clear thing: not everyone agrees on the right way to approach data standardisation across the market. There was a great deal of debate about whether regulatory compulsion is a desirable concept for the market with regards to forcing market participants to use standards. The European Central Bank’s (ECB) reference data…
LCH.Clearnet’s OTC SwapClear Service Clears One Millionth Trade
SwapClear, LCH.Clearnet Limited’s OTC interest rate swap clearing service, has cleared its millionth trade, taking the notional value of trades in SwapClear to US$206 trillion. Launched in 1999, SwapClear currently clears 64% of the global interbank interest rate swap market and the range of products cleared has been extended to include overnight index swaps of…
Deutsche Börse Launches Web Portal for Portfolio Risk Assessment
Deutsche Börse’s SENSIS data product has been available via its own web portal since Monday. SENSIS supplies investors and investment advisors with objective key indicators for systematic risk measurement of tradable investments. Internet users can run through their own investment scenarios at www.sensis-data.com, and optimise investment portfolios or investment recommendations in line with their personal…
EC Launches Competition Probe into Thomson Reuters RIC Codes
The European Commission has opened its formal anti-trust proceedings against Thomson Reuters concerning a potential infringement of the EC Treaty’s rules on abuse of a dominant market position by virtue of its Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) symbology. The Commission says it will investigate Thomson Reuters’ practices in the area of real-time market datafeeds, and in…
OCC Completes US Market Tests in Preparation for OSI, But is Enough Data Available?
The February deadline for the launch of the Options Symbology Initiative (OSI) is fast approaching and the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) has been conducting a battery of tests over the last couple of months in the US market to test the industry’s level of preparation for the new 21 character codes. According to the OCC,…
Bloomberg Adds Ex-Tullett Prebon CEO Danese as New Global Head of Data Solutions
As well as drawing a line in the sand with regards to instrument data codes, data vendor Bloomberg has also added a new team member to globally head its data solutions business. Andrea Danese joins from consultancy firm Fusion Advisory Partners, where he was co-founder and managing director for just over a year. Danese will…