RDR-Standards & Industry Initiatives

Multiple Repositories Expected to Emerge for Derivatives Trade Reporting

Regulations requiring derivatives trades to be reported to data repositories are looming in the US and not far behind in Europe, yet uncertainty remains about what exactly must be reported, which firms must report and how many data repositories there will be on a global scale.

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27 Apr 2012

US Data Transparency Coalition Focuses on Federal Data in Capital Markets

The US Data Transparency Coalition (DTC) introduced last week to advocate for the standardisation of federal data published online, warns that without significant changes in electronic data creation and management capital markets remain open to a crisis on the scale of the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.

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24 Apr 2012

ECB’s Draghi Cites Data Granularity in Pursuit of Financial Stability

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), this week noted the need for a wider variety of granular data to sustain financial stability and more data to monitor and avoid potential systemic risk in unregulated financial institutions and markets.

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20 Apr 2012

Fixed Income Connectivity Group Extends Work to Cover Cash Bonds

The investment banking community’s Fixed Income Connectivity Working Group (FICWG) that last year created best practice recommendations for using the FIX protocol in electronic trading of interest rate swaps (IRS) and credit default swaps (CDS) is pushing its open standards initiative into electronic trading of cash fixed income products.

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14 Mar 2012

CFTC Sets Schedule to Find Provider of Interim Compliant Identifiers

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is pressing on with its plans to identify swap counterparties in record keeping and swaps data reporting with a call to industry participants to submit their interest in becoming the source for identifiers.

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13 Mar 2012

Thomson Reuters Regroups as EC Intimates RIC Market Test Failure

Thomson Reuters is reviewing apparently negative feedback from the market test of its proposals to avert the European Commission’s antitrust investigation into its restrictive licensing policy for its Reuters Instrument Code (RIC). The market data vendor’s efforts appear to have fallen on stony ground following an unsuccessful market test by the Commission of its proposed solution, which eased licensing of its consolidated data feeds to make it less onerous for customers to switch suppliers.

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12 Mar 2012

InterGroup and Semandex Counter FSB Suggestions on LEI Technicalities

This week’s flurry of activity around the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) includes not only recommendations on the identifier and related reference data attributes from the expert group of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), but also counter-proposals reiterating former ideas from industry development company Financial InterGroup and semantic software specialist Semandex Networks.

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09 Mar 2012

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Interactive Data Awarded Third Patent for Fair Value Pricing of an Asset

Fitch Solutions Adds Single Name CDS Derived Bid-offer Spreads & Benchmark Curves to Pricing Service

Interactive Data expands OTC Derivatives Valuation Service to include CDS and CDS Indices

Calendar: SIFMA’s Leaders Forum & Technology Expo, 19-21 June 2012, (New York)

Guggenheim Investments Selects Milestone Group's pControl for NAV Validation and Reporting

Markit to Acquire Enterprise Data Management Specialist Cadis

Andrew Sexton Appointed to Spearhead Sales of Curium Data Quality Solution

ConceptONE Selects Asset Control to Enhance its Regulatory Reporting Practice

FISD Releases Updated Syllabus and Exam for Financial Information Associate Certificate

Pricing Partners Extended Functionality on CVA DVA and Bilateral CVA Computation

SuperDerivatives Boosts Commodities Team with Key Hire from Morgan Stanley

SIX Financial Information Implements Asset Control's AC Plus Solution

SwiftRef Utility to Include LEI, Reference Data

LINZ Selects OneTick To Create Superior Quant Trading Strategies

CMA Releases CMA Datavision Streaming

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