Providers are targeting the increasingly important know your customer (KYC) space in an attempt to ease the “immense” data management burden firms are reportedly experiencing in this area of financial services compliance. Solutions designed to support data management in relation to regulatory issues such as KYC anti-money laundering controls continue to attract users looking for… Read More >>
SS&C Matching Service to Tackle U.S. Market Next Year
With a nod from the SEC, SS&C Technologies will be able to target its cloud-based, post-trade matching service SSCNet at the “significant unmet trade matching service levels in the U.S.,” say vendor officials. After being able to offer it to Canadian markets, SSCNet should be available to U.S. clients, starting sometime next year, says Bob… Read More >>
DTCC Wants Global Framework for Sharing Swaps Data
Post-trade services and infrastructure provider DTCC would like to see the start of an international discussion about a framework for the global sharing of data about swaps transactions in the wake of federal action to remove a Dodd-Frank Act provision that some saw as an impediment to swaps data sharing globally. In a rare moment… Read More >>
SwapClear to Use Markit’s New Netting Service
The SwapClear clearinghouse is using a netting synchronization service for cleared, over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives just launched by financial information services vendor Markit. Markit is introducing the service in a bid to help banks “automatically update their risk systems after netting and compression activity at their clearing houses,” say vendor officials. “Netting exposures within a clearing… Read More >>
GLEIF Takes Charge of the LEI Effort
Editor’s note: The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body overseeing the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, has taken center stage in the effort to promote the usage of the LEI standard. In fact, GLEIF has just launched the Global LEI Index, “a golden copy of all past and current LEI records including… Read More >>
SWIFT Price Cuts Deeper than Expected
SWIFT’s five-year, SWIFT2015 strategy to shrink its pricing for its messaging services has beat the cooperative’s expectations because of “strong” traffic growth, cost controls and pricing schemes, resulting in a 57 percent price reduction expected by the end of this year. Officials from the cooperative announced the strategy result at SWIFT’s annual Sibos gathering, underway… Read More >>
Interactive Data SPreDs the Ops Costs with Trio of A-List Banks
Interactive Data Corp. is serving as a data provider to a new SmartStream reference data utility, nicknamed the Securities Product Reference Data (SPReD), which has the support of Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase and Morgan Stanley for its potential to cut operational costs. The new utility offers services for instrument reference data normalization and validation across all… Read More >>
LSEG, DTCC Join Forces for MiFIR Reporting
The DTCC and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) are partnering to provide clients with a connection to regulatory reporting technology vendor UnaVista’s Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM), a service that enables DTCC clients to comply with the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) reporting requirements, officials say. UnaVista is the LSEG’s hosted platform for matching,… Read More >>
OptionScape Tools to Work with Thomson Reuters Eikon
OptionScape, maker of strategy modeling tools for exchange-traded options, is now offering a standalone software version that has full data integration with Thomson Reuters Eikon, officials from both companies say. Thomson Reuters Eikon offers real-time data, historical information, access to more than 400 exchanges and links to over-the-counter (OTC) venues. The new version of OptionScape… Read More >>
Exegy Appliance Helps Control Data Usage
Exegy Inc., a managed services and data normalization vendor, has launched a new product that allows “Exegy-based hardware-accelerated appliances to interoperate with multiple third-party data entitlement and usage reporting tools such as Thomson Reuters DACS [Data Access Control System],” the vendor says in a statement. The Exegy Entitlement Hub is deployed as a fully managed… Read More >>
