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Alacra Adds GIIN Support to AAF+

May 11, 2015 by Ryan Boysen

Client onboarding, reference data and business research vendor Alacra has added global intermediary identifier numbers (GIINs) to the Alacra Authority File Plus (AAF+), officials say. There are approximately 140,000 institutions with GIINs, which are issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to foreign financial institutions (FFI) as part of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act… Read More >>

Filed Under: General Interest, Industry News Tagged With: CIK, client onboarding, FATCA, GIIN, IRS, LEI

UnaVista Hires from Axiom SL

May 7, 2015 by Louis Chunovic

UnaVista, the London Stock Exchange Group’s matching, reconciliation and regulatory reporting platform, reports that Robert Grant has joined as head of business development, software for Americas. Grant has 25 years of industry experience and most recently served as senior vice president of sales at Axiom Software Laboratories, “where he also led marketing and business development… Read More >>

Filed Under: Industry News, People Moves Tagged With: compliance, data management, EMIR, LEI, London Stock Exchange Group, MiFID, operations, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, UnaVista

EU’s T+2 Move Exposes LEI, Regulatory Challenges

April 30, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Most industry observers say the initial move to a shorter, trade date plus two business days (T+2) settlement cycle went smoothly in Europe last year and a recent survey by post-trade systems and services provider Omgeo mostly confirms this assessment. However, the report also finds that more progress is needed for the wider usage of… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Standards, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: allocations, compliance, data management, LEI, Omgeo, operations, settlement, shortened settlement, STP, T+2

ISDA Fills Out Determinations Committees

March 31, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has announced the members of its five regional Determinations Committees (DCs), which comprise the global decision-making structure around events in the credit default swap (CDS) industry, according to ISDA. “The DC process was set up as part of a series of measures to make the credit derivatives market… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance Tagged With: bilateral derivatives, compliance, data management, derivatives, isda, LEI, operations, OTC derivatives

Fed Wants LEIs for Certain Reporting Forms

March 17, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday, March 16, proposed that banking organizations be required to include their existing Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) on certain regulatory reporting forms, officials say. The LEI standard is a 20-character alphanumeric code that is universal and uniquely corresponds to a single legal entity. The LEI reference code enables easier identification… Read More >>

Filed Under: FinTech Trends, Standards, Regulation & Compliance Tagged With: compliance, Dodd-Frank, DTCC, FED, Federal Reserve, LEI, operations, OTC derivatives, SWIFT

Our Special Report on the Key Ops Issues for 2015

March 10, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

Our Special Report on the Key Ops Issues for 2015

Making predictions about the Top Ops issues for 2015 is more challenging than you might think, given the many facets of securities operations. We began our predictions coverage at the end of 2014 by reaching out to industry analysts and participants such as Virginie O’Shea, a senior analyst with Aite Group; Tim Lind, global head… Read More >>

Filed Under: Securities Operations, Operational Risk, Risk Management, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Back-Office, Standards, Minding the Gap Tagged With: Basel III, CAT, Central Securities Depositories, CFTC, compliance, Dodd-Frank, LEI, operations, OTC derivatives, SEC, T+2, Target2-Securities

Special Report: The Top Ops Predictions for 2015

March 10, 2015 by Sarah Hathaway

For this report, FTF News reached out to industry participants, analysts and vendors to get a sense for the operations issues that will be top of mind for financial services firms during 2015. We uncovered a variety of concerns including fears over the future of the Legal Entity Identifier standard, concern over shorter settlement cycles… Read More >>

Filed Under: FTF News Special Reports Tagged With: Basel III, LEI, operations, T+2

GoldenSource EDM Embraces Avox LEI APIs

February 17, 2015 by Louis Chunovic

GoldenSource, a provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions for the securities and investment industry, reports the integration of its EDM platform with Avox Ltd.’s Web-based application programming interfaces (APIs). Avox, which provides Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) standard reference data, recently launched a series of Web-based APIs for LEIs, legal names, addresses, industry classifications and… Read More >>

Filed Under: Data Management, General Interest, Standards, Industry News Tagged With: Avox, compliance, data management, derivatives, EDM, Golden Source 360 EDM, LEI, Omgeo, OTC derivatives

DTCC’s LEI Utility Hits a Milestone

February 13, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

DTCC officials report that the Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) utility, a local operating unit (LOU) of the growing global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system, has issued approximately half of all LEIs registered so far, or 165,000, to entities from more than 140 jurisdictions. The GMEI’s progress reflects the growth of the global machinery behind… Read More >>

Filed Under: Derivatives Operations, Derivatives Processing, Securities Operations, Settlement, FinTech Trends, Standards, Regulation & Compliance, Derivatives, Regulatory Compliance Tagged With: CFTC, compliance, data management, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, DTCC, LEI, OTC derivatives, SWIFT

Tim Lind: 2015 is the Make or Break Year for LEI

January 23, 2015 by Eugene Grygo

FTF News concludes its series on post-trade operations predictions for 2015 by interviewing industry veteran Tim Lind, the global head of financial regulation solutions at Thomson Reuters. Lind is also the 2013 recipient of the FinTech Innovator of the Year honor of the FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. Lind touched on several subjects but a… Read More >>

Filed Under: FinTech Trends, Standards Tagged With: CFTC, COU, LEI, LOU, Reuters, Tim Lind

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