The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has this week pledged its support for the establishment of global central repositories for OTC derivatives data and its commitment to the provision of relevant transaction data to supervisory authorities. The promises were made in a letter that has been sent to the heads of the primary supervisory authorities of each of the regulated signatories, which include buy side firms such as BlueMountain Capital and Goldman Sachs Asset Management and sell side firms such as JPMorgan and Citi.
Rather than pressures related to regulation, the business concerns of the front office are driving a spate of investment into revamping firms’ counterparty risk systems, according to a recent survey conducted by risk solution vendor Algorithmics. The investments are focused largely on credit value adjustment (CVA), which allows for more dynamic pricing of counterparty credit risk into new trades, says Bob Boettcher, senior director of product strategy at Algorithmics.
Judging by the number of references that have been made to living wills legislation during reference data related events and conferences recently, the market is already well aware of the data challenge awaiting it. However, for those that may have been asleep for the last few months, Thomas Huertas, director of the banking sector for the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and vice chairman of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), has been doing his level best to raise awareness of these challenges and how the industry can tackle them.
Corporate actions data cleansing solution provider Fidelity ActionsXchange has bagged its first customer of the year with the signing of Knight Capital Group’s clearing subsidiary Knight Clearing Services. Laura Pollard, executive vice president and head of Fidelity ActionsXchange, explains that the vendor has been working with Knight, which is focused on the trade execution and clearing space for broker dealers, for around a year on the implementation. Although this is a win for the more traditional end of Fidelity ActionsXchange’s business, the vendor remains focused on deliverables related to the expansion of its remit, Pollard tells A-Team Insight.
Following the signing of a partnership agreement to launch an entity identification joint venture last April (see our coverage 
A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.
They may differ in their opinions in how to go about effecting change (see last year’s FIMA standards panel for proof, see here), but EDM Council’s managing director Mike Atkin and JWG’s CEO PJ Di Giammarino agreed that the regulatory environment is forcing firms to re-evaluate their data management systems. Both Atkin and Di Giammarino told delegates to TSAM in London earlier this week that the regulatory community is delegating the responsibility for improving data quality to the industry in order to enable them to better track systemic risk.
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