Senior risk and regulatory financial services executives in the Americas and Asia-Pacific report changing attitudes regarding the accuracy of their organizations’ data and the impact of upcoming regulations. According to the topline June 2018 results of the most-recent annual survey conducted by AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting systems and techniques for risk assessment and… Read More >>
Q&A: Firms Still in Limbo over T+2 Changes
(Editor’s Note: Matt Rodgers, senior manager at business consultancy Sapient Global Markets, thinks that it’s a little premature to know what IT infrastructure and solution changes will be required for the transition to trading day plus two settlement (T+2). The efforts of the DTCC, the Securities and Financial Market Association (SIFMA) and major industry players… Read More >>
Five Years On, Dodd-Frank’s Ops Changes Are Here to Stay
The U.S. financial services industry — including its collective back- and middle-offices in particular — has undergone sweeping changes since the Great Recession, the vast majority of which are directly attributable to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. The law was contentious from the very beginning, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that opinion on its… Read More >>
EDM Council, OMG Build a Rosetta Stone for Data
New standards currently being developed by the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council and the Object Management Group (OMG) could have a big impact on how firms comply with the reporting requirements of post-crisis regulations in the near future. The standards, known as the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO), began taking shape last year when officials… Read More >>
ISDA Updates FpML to Ease Regulatory Reporting
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published its recommendation for the XML-based programming language it manages, the Financial products Markup Language (FpML), and version 5.8 adds coverage for more instruments and aims to ease some regulatory reporting burdens. ISDA and derivatives industry participants oversee FpML’s development, and the new version took roughly a… Read More >>
Massad Favors Regs Hybrid for Cross-Border Uncleared Swaps
CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad says he’s leaning toward a hybrid approach to the problem of regulatory harmony for uncleared swaps transacted across multiple jurisdictions around the globe but he’s careful to note that his agency has not reached any conclusions. “We recognize the importance of having the uncleared margin rules of different jurisdictions be as… Read More >>
Will a Software Robot be Writing Your Next Report?
Perhaps it was authored by a proprietary algorithm, of the kinds purveyed by young, privately held companies like Chicago-based Narrative Science; Durham, N.C.- based Automated Insights; or Yseop (pronounced “easy-op”), which was founded in Paris, but has U.S. headquarters in Dallas, Texas.
Greed, Governance and the Trust Factor
Good governance is a watchword of today’s financial services industry. But are the new regulations and requirements enough to restore trust? The public’s trust in the industry “languishes at about the 24 percent level, with many expressing continued concerns regarding both excessive compensation and a lack of integrity among top corporate managers,” SEC Commissioner Luis… Read More >>
