Thomson Reuters has bolstered its credit risk offerings by adding StarMine Credit Default models to its DataScope suite, bringing together “on one platform reference data, core ratings agency data, pricing and analytics,” according to a company statement. The new StarMine Credit Default models are exclusive to Thomson Reuters and will provide data services that enable… Read More >>
FCA Head to Step Down
U.K. regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reports that after four years Martin Wheatley will be leaving his post as chief executive on September 12 and will be replaced temporarily by Tracey McDermott, an executive board member and director of supervision. A search is underway for a permanent chief executive, FCA officials say. Wheatley will… Read More >>
Euro Regs Top Concern for Boutique Asset Managers
The number-one concern among 110 boutique asset managers, nearly 90 percent of whom are doing business in European markets, is market regulation. That concern was cited by 68 percent of managers polled in a survey conducted by the Tabb Group for SunGard. By comparison, just 17 percent cited regulations first in a similar 2013 survey…. Read More >>
‘Joss offerings will be integrated with AIM’s suite’
AIM Software, based in Vienna, Austria, is completing its acquisition of New York-based entity data management vendor Joss Technology, according to Olivier Kenji Mathurin, head of product marketing and research for the data management vendor. Joss Technology is the maker of the Entity Data Management System (EDMS), the “entity master” that uses a fuzzy logic… Read More >>
GMEX’s IRS CMF Contracts to Launch Next Month
Financial conglomerate Global Markets Exchange Group (GMEX) will begin providing a Euro-denominated, constant maturity interest rate swaps, dubbed the IRS Constant Maturity Future (CMF) contracts, for trading and clearing on Eurex, starting August 7, officials say. Constant maturity swaps are a variation of interest rate swaps for which the floating interest portion is reset periodically… Read More >>
Goldman Sachs Hit with $7M Penalty for Software Glitch
U.S. regulator, the SEC has hit investment banking giant Goldman Sachs with a $7 million penalty for allegedly violating the market access rule, “in connection with a trading incident that resulted in erroneous executions of options contracts,” officials say. An SEC investigation found that Goldman sent out roughly 16,000 mispriced options to various exchanges in… Read More >>
Wolters Kluwer: FTRB Could Be a Headache for Firms
Financial firms should start planning in advance for how well they’ll be able to comply with the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision’s (BCBS) proposed Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) – or whether they’ll have to at all, according to a new whitepaper out by consultancy Wolters Kluwer Financial Services. The FTRB is currently… Read More >>
SunGard Launches Utility for OTC Clearing
Financial technology and services giant SunGard has launched its Post-Trade Derivatives Utility with Barclays as its anchor customer and is targeting futures commission merchants (FCMs) that need alternative services support, officials say. SunGard’s utility offers support for derivatives clearing operations and technology services for trade clearing, trade lifecycle management, margin processing, brokerage, reconciliation, data management… Read More >>
The Fed Hits Six Banks with Record Fines
The Federal Reserve has imposed $1.8 billion in fines, “among the largest ever assessed,” against UBS, Barclays Bank, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Bank of America Corp. (BofA) for what Fed officials call “their unsafe and unsound practices in the foreign exchange (FX) markets.” The dollar amounts for… Read More >>
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Picks Thomson Reuters KYC Service
Thomson Reuters, an information company, reports that the venerable Stifel Nicolaus Europe investment management firm has picked the Org ID KYC managed service to streamline Stifel’s know-your-customer (KYC) process. Specifically, Stifel Nicolaus Europe will be using the Thomson Reuters Org ID service to “onboard their European legal entities. The adoption of the Org ID global… Read More >>
