Private equity firms are feeling the heat for more IT solutions and better data management as an uptick in regulatory audits and exams is causing investors to demand more transparency, according to professional services firm EY’s 2016 global private equity fund and investor survey. The greater demand for transparency is one of the key findings… Read More >>
Dash Financial Debuts Data Visualization System
Agency broker-dealer Dash Financial has launched Dash360, a data visualization tool intended to help buy-side firms achieve more transparency and attribution into the order routing, execution behavior, costs and performance of securities transactions overseen by Dash, which works in U.S. options and equities markets. “We provide the transparency to see where we routed the order,… 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 >>
SEC Pushes to Shed Light on Dark Pool Operations
The SEC has voted to propose new operational-transparency and regulatory-oversight rules for alternative trading systems that trade stocks listed on a national securities exchange (NMS stocks), including “dark pools.” So-called dark pools of liquidity, on private exchanges not available to the general public, have not — at least until now — been transparent, by definition…. Read More >>
Why Aren’t Hedge Funds Already at T+0 Reporting?
(Editor’s note: Scott Price, who has been head of business development and client management for North America for Maitland International Holdings since April, says that fund administrators could be doing more to help hedge funds achieve a shorter time frames for reporting. This includes even those hedge fund firms that lack an IT infrastructure. Price… Read More >>
GLEIF’s New Rules May Reject Current LEI Issuers
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) will be taking over the accreditation process for organizations that issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) via a new program that supersedes the efforts of the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee (LEI ROC), say GLEIF officials. However, the new accreditation process is retroactive and could mean that some of the… 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 >>
CBOE and EFP to Launch Lending Exchange
Environmental Financial Products, LLC (EFP) and CBOE Holdings, Inc. (CBOE) report their intention to launch the American Financial Exchange (AFX), an electronic marketplace for small and mid-sized banks looking to lend and borrow short-term funds. AFX will also feature weekly auctions of a new, transaction-based benchmark rate for U.S. interbank lending, to be called Ameribor…. Read More >>
European Regulator Pushes for More OTC Margin and Collateral Requirements
(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in FTF News’ two-part news analysis [click here to read part one] on the changing regulatory environment for derivatives trading and processing in Europe.) The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is urging more collateral and margin management requirements as detailed in a recently published set of recommendations… Read More >>
DTCC Takes Aim at the Roadblocks to Data Transparency
Increasing the transparency of the global financial system was one of the major goals of the G20 framework that followed the Great Recession and led to major financial services reform legislation like the U.S’s Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Reform Act. Even though there are many bright spots in this area — some industry observers see… Read More >>
