SIX, the financial exchanges, data, services, and systems provider, is expanding its multicurrency swaps offering via BME Clearing, a Spanish central counterparty clearing house (CCP). This is an alternative to the E.U. requirement that firms use a European CCP for the clearing of Euro-denominated interest rate swap (IRS) transactions. SIX owns BME Clearing. The European… Read More >>
ANNA Advances ISIN Effort for OTC Attributes
ANNA Subsidiary Conducts Industry Outreach A subsidiary of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has gathered feedback on developing over-the-counter (OTC) International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) attributes in order to ease MiFID II reference data reporting. ANNA serves as the registration authority for the ISIN under appointment by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO),… Read More >>