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The challenges facing fair value pricing & transparency with IFRS and AIFMD

Jayme Fagas, Global Head of Valuations & Transparency with Thomson Reuters talks about the difficulties in valuing illiquid and OTC assets in accordance with IFRS and AIFMD, the challenges associated with valuations and transparency and the best practices associated in undertaking due diligence audits of data vendors.

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Edelstein invests in Algomi

Capital markets STP veteran and former chairman and CEO of BondDesk, Howard Edelstein has joined Algomi as a 'strategic advisor' and taken an equity stake in the two-year old fixed income liquidity discovery start-up.

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Banks and capital markets firms to boost compliance spending by 10% - Accenture

Nearly two thirds of European and North American banking and capital markets firms expect to significantly increase their spending on compliance risk management over the next couple of years, according to research from Accenture.

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The true view of risk

Subin Paul, solutions architect at Oracle, examines why many banks still struggle to find a true, enterprise-wide view of risk.

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Deutsche Bourse to build new clearing business in Singapore

Deutsche Börse has earmarked an additional EUR30 million in spending to spur plans for new growth initiatives over the coming year, including the creation of a central counterparty clearing house in Singapore.

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Impact on pricing and reference data

Marion Leslie, MD, Pricing and Reference Services at Thomson Reuters looks at the impact of regulations, the need for transparency and what the future holds for the pricing and reference data marketplace.

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DTCC warns demand for collateral set to overwhelm system infrastructures

With regulatory changes sparking a surge in demand for collateral, current operational processes and system infrastructures looks set to be overwhelmed, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has warned.

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SunGard appoints Marianne Brown as COO of financial systems

Marianne Brown, president and CEO of post-trade processing house Omgeo, has been appointed as chief operating officer of SunGard's financial systems business.

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UBS to outsource fixed income platform to Murex and ION - Reuters

Swiss bank UBS is to outsource large parts of its fixed income technology infrastructure to Murex and ION, according to Reuters.

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KYC Exhange Net launches Web-based platform for due diligence data sharing

Switzerland-based KYC Exchange has launched a Web-based communication platform for Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) data sharing for the international banking community

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Regulators slate financial firms for poor counterparty risk measures

Five years after the financial crisis, progress on timely and accurate counterparty risk measures has been largely unsatisfactory, reports the Financial Stability Board.

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Europe reaches agreement on MiFID reforms

A comprehensive rewrite of rules governing trading in financial markets has been agreed by the European Parliament and the bloc's Council of Ministers.

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Finextra Future Money presents: How to succeed as a fintech start-up

Finextra is inviting start-up companies in London to participate in the first of a series of breakfast roundtables ahead of the forthcoming Future Money conference, run in association with fintech accelerator space Level39.

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Barclays fined $3.75m for electronic record keeping failures

US regulator Finra has slapped Barclays Capital with a $3.75 million fine for a decade-long failure to properly preserve electronic records, e-mails and instant messages.

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2013: That was the year that was

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2013, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, features and blogs over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2014.

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European Union reaches agreement on settlement reforms

The European Parliament has hammered out an agreement on safeguards aimed at protecting the financial system from failures at central securities depositories.

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Maximising Regulatory Data

Will Cawthorne, head of sales, Impendium Systems, looks at the thorny issue of finding meaning in big data. Originally published on Finextra.com on:

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SunGard runs global corporate hackathon

Fintech powerhouse SunGard is sharing the results of a two-day corporate hackathon which saw 103 teams in 17 cities around the world compete to develop innovative new financial service apps.

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SIA and Colt win Monte Titoli network tender for T2S

SIA, in partnership with Colt, has won the tender to connect Italian depository Monte Titoli to Target2-Securities (T2S), the new centralised European platform for the settlement of domestic and cross-border securities transactions.

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Finextra interviens: Swift drives debate at CorpActions 2013 conference

At the CorpActions 2013 conference in London, Chris Schaefer, Senior Associate, CityIQ Ltd, Pierre Colladon, Senior Adviser for Strategy for Market Infrastructures, Société Générale Securities Services, Axel Dewitte, EMEA&APAC Head of Corporate Actions, BNY Mellon, and Olivier Connan, Global Market Manager, Asset Servicing, SWIFT, discuss the pace of automation in corporate actions, the big changes impacting this industry and the likely evolution in this space during the next few years. Originally published on Finextra.com on: 6 December 2014