The institutional investor and investment management community is keen for more data and analytics around risk management, according to a recent survey by global custodian Northern Trust. Not only is risk a prime area of investment for banks, the buy side is also being forced to re-evaluate its approach to risk modelling and analytics.

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The rise of the clearing counterparty (CCP) seems unstoppable at the moment. Not only are efforts being made in Europe and the US to move OTC derivatives onto central clearing platforms with a view to reducing counterparty risk, Asia has got in on the act too. This news has not been welcomed by all parties in the market however, as a number of concerns have been raised due to the fragmented nature of the Asian region.

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Following the launch of its software as a service (SaaS) offering earlier this year, SmartStream has teamed up with Swift to add its TLM OnDemand to SwiftNet. Financial institutions can now communicate with the SaaS version of SmartStream’s reconciliation service via the Swift network, explains Philippe Chambadal, CEO of the vendor.

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Following its partnership agreement with business entity data specialist Avox earlier this year, enterprise data management (EDM) vendor Asset Control is keenly focused on the area of counterparty data. Rick Enfield, product business owner of the vendor’s AC Plus solution, explains to Reference Data Review why counterparty data and valuations are so important in the current market.

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Against the background of a shifting regulatory framework, the European central counterparty (CCP) race for the derivatives market is heating up. NYSE Liffe is considering dropping out of the race altogether, whereas Eurex Clearing and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) are planning to launch their offerings by the end of the month deadline, which was set by the European Commission earlier this year.

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The European Commission has released its proposals for a revamp of the derivatives market in a bid to reduce counterparty risk and improve the transparency of these traditionally opaque instruments. A central tenet of the recommendations, similar to that of the recently proposed US regulatory framework for derivatives, is the introduction of central clearing counterparties (CCPs) for standardised OTC derivatives.

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The recent uptick in the corporate actions world has not gone unnoticed by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and its Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS) subsidiary is keen to steal a march on its rivals. Caroline O’Shaughnessy, vice president and global head of sales for Data Solutions, Asset Services, and Stuart Goldstein, managing director of DTCC corporate communications, explain the vendor’s recent progress towards achieving this goal to Reference Data Review.

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US-based enterprise data management (EDM) solution vendor Fascet has signed a partnership agreement with hosting specialist Rackspace to support its new software as a solution (SaaS) offering. Accordingly, the vendor has been enabled to offer its Fascet Trade Communicator, a post-trade notification solution that processes any asset type including complex OTC derivatives, in a SaaS delivery model.

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Two months after the formal announcement of its partnership with UK-based futures and options specialist FOW Tradedata, Standard & Poor’s Cusip Global Services (CGS) business has launched its new Cusip Options Service for US listed equity options. The vendor began this year demonstrating an aggressive stance towards extending its reach into other areas of the entity and securities identification space and this launch is just one example of its ambitions put in practice.

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