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Moving Parts and Closing Gaps
Corporate actions professionals are looking at how to automate more complex pieces of processing these events, Michael Shashoua reports. Messaging standards and complex instructions and choices are key factors
Burning Issues: Could an Instant Message Be Worth a Thousand Bloomberg Terminals?
Max Bowie takes a well earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss Markit's Open Federated Chat, a potential alternative to Bloomberg's Instant messenger
Battling Inertia In Corporate Actions
Automation efforts in corporate actions processing have stayed at stagnant levels, according to Inside Reference Data webcast surveys. Industry professionals are looking for a catalyst to spur improvements
IRD's Editor on ISO 20022 and LEI Developments
Support for the ISO 20022 messaging standard could be wavering in the industry. In contrast, a maneuver by the US Office of Financial Research could improve the LEI's prospects
ISO 20022 Likely Stalled For Years More, Say Corporate Actions Execs
Efforts to phase out the use of the older ISO 15022 standard for corporate actions messaging on a worldwide basis are still failing to gain traction in the industry, executives from BlackRock and Barclays Capital said in a recent webcast
Corporate Actions: Off and Running -- webcast
Inside Reference Data gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on July 17, 2013 to discuss how financial services firms are managing the challenges of upgrades to messaging standards and increases in volumes and types of corporate actions events.
REDI Now Independent of Goldman
Goldman Sachs has sold REDI, with its REDIPlus execution management system (EMS), to a consortium of investors, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citadel and Lightyear Capital. Even with the sale, Goldman will still…
Buy Side Still Not Ready for June 10 Swaps Deadline
Apparently one set of guinea pigs wasn't enough. Even though Category 1 swap participants─swap dealers and the largest hedge funds─have been clearing most of their interest rate and credit default swaps since March 11, Category 2 participants─a group…
Tradition Debuts Long-Awaited ParFX Platform
Broker-dealer Tradition has announced that its spot foreign exchange (FX) ParFX platform, formerly known as TraFXpure, has been launched.
FISD Pitches Contract Standards Project
Consumer Constituency Group outlines 10 categories of terms that will form the basis of concise, standardized contract addenda.
Art and Science: Credit Valuation Challenge II
Although the technical requirements for calculating credit valuation adjustment can be significant, other factors also need to be considered in order for an efficient counterparty risk management operation to be established. The second part of this…
2012's Financial Crime Coups Raise Stakes, Anxiety
Global regulation was the year’s obsession, but criminal probes─from rate rigging to rogue trading; sanctions violations to insider bets─won the headlines in 2012. Not every financial crime has a ready tech fix, but with buy-side cornerstones like SAC…
Infrastructure, Optimization Tools Imperative for New Swaps Execution
A modernized US swaps market portends benefits as well as costs for the buy side. But most of all, experts say, it means building technology that can cope─independently─with change.
Predictions About Final SEF Headcount Drop
As the real-live launch of real-life swap execution facilities (SEFs) draws closer, a group of derivative experts predict that there will be fewer entrants than previously estimated.
OTC Derivatives Processing webcast
Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on November 15, 2012 to discuss how the OTC credit markets will develop its own market microstructure, based on leveraging best practice from other electronically exchange-based markets.
Barclays Hires Bannocks
Christopher Bannocks, previously head of enterprise data management at Nomura International, has joined Barclays as global head of reference data
But We’re Not Dead, Yet?
Banks submit their living wills to regulators, and move on swiftly.
The Buy Side as Big Data Laggards
After Tuesday's Big Data Online Summit, Anthony once again asks why the buy side has largely chosen to sit on the sidelines.
Market Participants Weigh Centralized Swap Hubs to Achieve Clearing Certainty
At a recent panel discussion on clearing certainty in a post-SEF trading landscape, industry participants from all sides of the issue debated a centralized, do-it-all hub.
FISD Panels Highlight Lack of Competition, Relations, Innovation as Barriers to Progress
Data providers must support and promote competition among vendors, or risk hindering innovation, according to FISD panelists.
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Strapline: Regulation & Standards
AMERICAN FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY AWARDS: Best IT Team: Barclays Capital
JUDGE’S COMMENT: Barclays PRS turns data across multiple asset class into meaningful information. It also seems to put that information in the hands of the right people ... and gives Barclays the ability to create new reports and distribute them with…