Finsapp, a specialist system integrator for the SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider, and Volante Technologies, a provider of software for the integration, validation and processing of financial messages and data, report that they have entered into a partnership to build business domain solutions. The solutions will be “based on interbank, intrabank and bank… Read More >>
ISDA Takes Aim at Derivatives Reporting Roadblocks
One of the key components of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law was an effort to increase the transparency of the notoriously opaque derivatives markets, which played a major role in the Great Recession. Five years down the line and regulators have made significant progress toward achieving that goal, according to industry group International Swaps and Derivatives… Read More >>
Michael Atkin: ‘DCAM Harmonizes the Data for the Prime Goal’
Non-profit trade association, the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council has just released the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM), a collection of best practices for the management of data across an enterprise. The new DCAM documentation is intended to help firms “align data across multiple internal repositories in order to operate more efficiently and meet… Read More >>
Electra Tackles Month-End Recs Problem
For some reconciliations professionals working in post-trade operations, it can seem like some jobs just don’t end when they’re supposed to. This is especially true when it comes to performing month-end reconciliations, where back-dated transactions from prime brokers and other counterparties can often come through days or even weeks after the actual end of the… Read More >>
CFTC Roundtable to Focus on DCO Wind-Down
CFTC staff members will be holding a public roundtable on March 5, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to cover issues related to the “recovery and orderly wind-down of derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs),” officials say. The roundtable will be an opportunity for the regulator to gather input from stakeholders such as DCOs and their… Read More >>
Pension Fund Picks Markit’s EDM Platform
Markit, a provider of financial information services, reports that the state of Wisconsin’s investment board (SWIB) has selected Markit’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform as a “central hub for all of its investment data and reconciliations.” SWIB, created in 1951, is the ninth largest US public pension fund and the 28th largest public or private… Read More >>
SEC Promotes Pamela Dyson to CIO
The SEC has promoted Pamela C. Dyson from Acting Chief Information Office (CIO) to CIO in charge of overseeing all of the regulator’s IT technology functions “Pam has been instrumental in our ongoing efforts to enhance the commission’s information technology capabilities,” says SEC Chair Mary Jo White in a statement. Dyson has held key positions… Read More >>
SEC Names New Head of Investment Management Division
The SEC has named David Grim as acting director of the Division of Investment Management, officials say. He replaces Norm Chap, the division’s former director, who left the SEC at the end of January 2015. Grim has been the division’s deputy director for the past two years where he has been responsible for overseeing all… Read More >>
Tim Lind on T+2 and Wall Street Fines
As the blizzard bears down on the Northeast, I had the time to review the additional comments from Tim Lind, the global head of financial regulatory solutions at Thomson Reuters. He talked to me last month about his major predictions for 2015 and his main concern was the Legal Entity Identifier standard (http://bit.ly/1yWE8YV). Yet the… Read More >>
BNY Mellon Fills Top Client Service Posts
BNY Mellon has appointed Douglas Shulman as a senior executive vice president and global head of Client Service Delivery (CSD), joining the firm’s executive committee in the process, officials say. BNY Mellon has also appointed Dan Kramer as executive vice president of CSD, where he’ll direct and oversee the CSD strategy and execution for BNY… Read More >>
