Latest Post-trade & ops News: Finextra Research

Sifma calls for US rulemakers to step up deployment of Legal Entity Identifiers

US securities trade body Sifma has called for broader uptake of Legal Entity Identifiers by the country's regulators, amid fears that the US is being left behind as other nations push ahead with mandatory implementation of the uniform trade reporting standard.

14 April 2014

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Avox to double workforce as demand for reference data grows

DTCC-owned clean data utility Avox has announced plans to hire 200 new staff over the next two-years, doubling its workforce in the face of increasing industry demand for accurate reference data.

11 April 2014

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Swift boosts compliance services portfolio with Omnicision acquisition

Swift has acquired financial crime prevention services firm Omnicision as it continues to build up its compliance unit. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

27 March 2014

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Swift: The Future of Financial Standards - Live Blog

Welcome to Finextra's live blog from Swift's Standards Forum event at Level 39 in Canary Wharf, UK. Brought to you by The Swift Institute, the Forum and the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science the conference is entitled 'The Future of Financial Standards'.

25 March 2014

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Nasdaq rethinks Amazon FinQloud venture - FT

US exchange operator Nasdaq is rethinking its FinqCloud venture with e-commerce giant Amazon after the business failed to gain sufficient traction with potential customers, according to the Financial Times.

24 March 2014

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Thomson Reuters joins KYC utility race

Thomson Reuters is taking on Swift and a host of other start-ups in the race to develop a central utility for Know Your Customer due diligence checking with the launch of Accelus Org ID.

19 March 2014

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How are US banks dealing with stress testing?

Kenneth Yu, senior consultant, risk management, SunGard looks at the ongoing challenges of dealing with the current stress testing requirements.

19 March 2014

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Quality data; effective liquidity management

Richard Wiltshire, Global Head of Cash and Liquidity Management, Cross Product Services, Global Banking and Markets, HSBC Bank, Ludy Limburg, Eur Payment Solutions, ICM FI Product management, RBS and Nick Noble, Product Manager, SmartStream look at whether movements to manage liquidity on an intraday basis provide greater stability to the market.

18 March 2014

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EBAday business forum: Intraday liquidity

Participants of the inaugural EBAday Business Forum in Frankfurt discuss liquidity management, free-riding and what is required to manage the risks.

17 March 2014

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The unique challenge of corporate actions

Brendan Farrell, executive vice president, SunGard's XSP looks at how the industry can deal with the unpredictable nature of corporate actions processing.

17 March 2014

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Third party vendors the winners as trading technology trends shift

Technology innovation in equity markets has changed direction as the race-to-zero latency and the pursuit of high-frequency trading cools, says capital markets consultancy GreySpark partners

13 March 2014

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Thomson Reuters establishes subsidiary to handle financial benchmarks

Thomson Reuters has established a new subsidiary to handle its involvement in calculating financial benchmarks, which are set to operate under tougher regulations in the wake of widescale abuses by bank data suppliers.

10 March 2014

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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.

06 March 2014

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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.

04 March 2014

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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.

03 March 2014

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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.

27 February 2014

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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.

20 February 2014

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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.

18 February 2014

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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.

22 January 2014

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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.

21 January 2014