White Paper: Outsourced Corporate Actions Validation

Industry leading financial institutions are reaping operational benefits and avoiding significant unnecessary financial exposures by ensuring the quality and the timeliness of their corporate actions data. As well as minimising costs from operational disruption caused by incorrect or incomplete data, these firms are able to reduce the risk of litigation and compensation claims arising from corporate actions errors, allowing them to save on the capital they set aside to mitigate these risks and avoid reputational harm. In many cases, the amounts involved are measured in the millions, of pounds, euros or dollars.

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17 Jan 2012
 
Andrew’s Blog – RICs as Catalyst for Financial Markets ‘App Store’

High on the long, long list of the late Steve Jobs’ acts of genius was his decision to go against his own instinct and open up the iPhone/iPAD to third-party developers to create the App Store, a true game-changer. That got me to thinking that Thomson Reuters and the EU could be missing a trick with their ongoing correspondence about for extending access to the Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) [see more here].

Rather than focusing on a withering segment of the marketplace – consolidated data feeds – what if Thomson Reuters went the whole hog and opened up RICs to everyone? And then encouraged everyone to develop and market their own applications through the ‘RIC Store’, using RICs to access the data required? Drawing on its 4,000+ list of client developers, the result would be a trading and investment application marketplace. Hedgehogs.net on steroids. Tantalising.

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11 Jan 2012
 
White Paper: Transparency and Evaluated Pricing

In this paper, we take a look at why transparency in the valuation process is important, which regulations demand that attention is given to your transparency policies, how firms should adapt their evaluations data strategy to meet client and regulatory requirements. We also provide a check list of 10 key things financial institutions need to think about in order to satisfy the transparency needs of their clients, auditors and regulators. (more…)

14 Dec 2011
 
White Paper: A Model for Data Governance - Does Your Organization Really Have One?

The current focus on new regulations, and their impact on risk management practices, has turned the attention of financial institutions to data. It is increasingly evident that accurate and consistent data is key both to compliance with incoming regulations and to reaping the benefits of a robust risk management strategy.

Business managers have come to the realization that data is an asset that can be turned into a strategic advantage. By tapping into their data assets, savvy business heads are transforming what was once the long-forgotten poor stepchild of the financial enterprise into a weapon that can be wielded to boost profits, streamline operational processes and meet the stringent needs of new regulation, whatever shape it eventually takes.

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02 Dec 2011
 
White Paper: Post-Trade Technology - Reactive or Progressive?

LSE Post Trade Whitepaper 09 11Free white paper, authored by the London Stock Exchange Group

Post-trade technology enables brokers and investors to confirm and report trades, and is essential to the effective operation of these firms. However, the technology at the heart of many of these systems was designed for a simpler trading environment. As the environment has evolved, for example through new regulations and the growth of alternative asset classes, firms have been forced to adapt their systems. This has often involved piecemeal upgrades, building on previous amendments and involving inefficient workarounds.

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27 Sep 2011
 
SIX Telekurs White Paper & Recorded Webinar: Acceptable Price Variance

This webinar and white paper answers the question:
How much variance in evaluated pricing is acceptable?

Exchange-traded securities have the advantage of having a “price” reflecting the overall value investors place on future earnings, credit quality, management expertise and more. But more than half of all financial products today actually trade away from an exchange, including over-the-counter products and securities with no organized exchange for consummating day-to-day transactions. How do portfolio managers find reliable pricing information for those products? That’s where evaluated pricing comes into play.

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21 Jul 2011
 
The Waiting Game: Standards in Corporate Actions Processing

There has been some real action of late in the standards space for corporate actions. In the US, the SEC issued a requirement for corporations to report in XBRL, and the XBRL US organisation has announced a project with the DTCC and Swift to tie the standard into ISO 20022, all of which could optimistically see true corporate actions automation from issuer to investor.

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19 Oct 2010
 

 
 

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White Paper: Outsourced Corporate Actions Validation
17 Jan 2012
White Paper: Transparency and Evaluated Pricing
14 Dec 2011
White Paper: A Model for Data Governance - Does Your Organization Really Have One?
02 Dec 2011
Special Report: Evaluated Pricing
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White Paper: Post-Trade Technology - Reactive or Progressive?
27 Sep 2011
 
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