This month’s UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) forum on preparation for liquidity reporting for independent software vendors (ISV) and firms under the new liquidity risk regime focused on the details of the XML submission process and upcoming schedules for Gabriel testing. Last month, the FSA confirmed that rather than accepting spreadsheets for all data as first planned, firms will need to prepare XML submissions for the required data (see our coverage 
Firms need to keep a close eye on what is shaping up to be MiFID II, under the auspices of the Committee of European Securities Regulators’ (CESR) consultation on post-trade transparency (see our recent coverage 
The UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) head of risk, Sally Dewar, has announced this week that she will be stepping down from her role at the regulator at the beginning of next year. Dewar, who has been instrumental in the FSA’s recent hard line approach to the market (see some of her recent work on the Single Customer View reforms 
As if it was a warning shot to those dragging their heels in meeting the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) recent call for firms to provide more data about their management of client assets (see our coverage 
As part of its tougher stance towards the market and in a follow up to a related “Dear CEO” letter sent out in January (see our coverage 
The new transparency requirements that are being mooted as part of the MiFID review process by the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) have resulted in a surge of interest and investment in the middle office, according to panellists discussing operational risk at last week’s Xtrakter user conference. Godfried De Vidts, director of European Affairs at Icap, explained that the need for a more harmonised approach to the post-trade space is being highlighted by the push for greater data transparency and the fragmentation of the clearing environment with the addition of new central clearing counterparties (CCPs) on the scene.
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By Neil McGovern, Director of Financial Services Marketing, Sybase
From January 2009 to January 2010, China’s stock markets bounded up by approximately 80%, India’s by around 60% and Hong Kong’s, Taiwan’s, Singapore’s and even South Korea’s markets all were up by 40% or better—while the US and euro zone markets were stuck at around 15%.
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