No Responses Received for CESR’s Credit Ratings Agencies Data Repository Proposals

Following the recent approval of the Regulation on Credit Rating Agencies by the European Parliament, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) published a consultation paper on the subject of a central data repository for ratings agency data on 9 July. The deadline for responses to the proposals was 7 August but the industry failed to provide a single response to the proposals, which means the proposals are likely to be adopted as they are.

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20 Aug 2009
 
FISD and Lakefront Data Salary Survey Highlights Data Management’s Modest Pay Scales

It is no secret that data management is a part of the financial services industry that has long been underfunded in comparison to other areas. To back up the anecdotal data that already exists about the plight of the data manager, the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and Lakefront Data Ventures have published a salary survey aimed at benchmarking pay data.

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31 Jul 2009
 
FCAG Says Mark to Market Rules Not to Blame for Procyclical Nature of Market

The Financial Crisis Advisory Group (FCAG) has released its final report indicating that mark to market accounting standards did not fuel the procyclicality of the market. The group, which is the joint effort between the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), established to tackle accounting standards in the post-crisis world, says the rules actually understated the losses rather than overstated them.

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29 Jul 2009
 
European Commission Bent on Post-trade Infrastructure Revamp for Derivatives

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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06 Jul 2009
 
EACH Supports the Introduction of a CCP for OTC Derivatives

The European Association of Central Counterparty Clearing Houses (EACH) has published a paper that indicates its support for the introduction of central clearing counterparties for the OTC derivatives markets. The industry association believes a CCP can serve as part of the blueprint to effectively mitigate counterparty risk and improve operational efficiency in the OTC derivatives market across asset classes and products.

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02 Mar 2009
 
CCP Principles Can be Applied to Bilateral World of OTC Derivatives, Says Adsatis

Following on from its white paper last month, London-based consultancy Adsatis has published another report looking into the clearing counterparty (CCP) approach in comparison to bilateral agreements with regards to OTC derivatives. Adsatis consultant and author of the white paper, Bill Hodgson, reckons firms can apply aspects of the CCP approach to a non-CCP environment.

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17 Feb 2009
 
Current Economic Climate is Forcing Buy Side to Re-evaluate Data Management Systems, Says Asset Control

The current financial crisis has had a significant impact on the buy side’s data management practices, according to a recent white paper by Asset Control in partnership with London-based management consultancy Lepus. Martijn Groot, director of market strategy at Asset Control, explains the highlights to Reference Data Review.

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02 Feb 2009
 

 
 

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