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 >>
EU’s T+2 Move Exposes LEI, Regulatory Challenges
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 >>
ISDA Fills Out Determinations Committees
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 >>
Fed Wants LEIs for Certain Reporting Forms
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 >>
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 >>
Special Report: The Top Ops Predictions for 2015
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 >>
GoldenSource EDM Embraces Avox LEI APIs
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 >>
DTCC’s LEI Utility Hits a Milestone
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 >>
Tim Lind: 2015 is the Make or Break Year for LEI
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 >>
Bankers’ Almanac Data Now On Alacra Platform
Client onboarding, reference data and business research vendor Alacra has partnered with Accuity, publisher of Banker’s Almanac, officials say. The partnership will integrate Banker’s Almanac’s new Due Diligence Data File with Alacra Compliance Enterprise (ACE), with the aim of “significantly increasing the speed and efficiency of the client onboarding process for mutual customers,” according to… Read More >>
