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Seeking A Third Way On Pricing

Faced with issues concerning transparency and credibility of pricing and valuations, data managers must reconcile impulses to be brief and comprehensive all at once.

Inside Reference Data | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 15 Apr 2013

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Sapient Connects CMRS Platform to DTCC

Sapient Global Markets has created a direct link between its compliance management and reporting system (CMRS) and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.'s (DTCC’s) Swap Data Repository (SDR).

Sell-Side Technology | News | Regulation & Standards | 10 Apr 2013

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Navigating Regulatory Reform After The Financial Crisis Webcast

Waters gathered leading industry experts for a webcast on March 27, 2013 to discuss the operational and technology challenges facing firms in light of the largest regulatory overhaul in recent memory, which is radically changing the way in which global...

Waters | Web Seminar | Regulation & Standards | 02 Apr 2013 | audio

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ISITC Groups Drafting MBS, Portfolio Value Guidelines

ISITC working groups plan to collaborate with Sifma to meet a June deadline on mortgage-backed securities margin requirements, and to revisit total portfolio value standards. ISITC as a whole will continue work begun last year on the legal entity identifier...

Inside Reference Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 28 Mar 2013

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Max Bowie: Fighting Fragmentation: The Rising Cost of Connecting the Dots

Regulator-led trading market structure changes also require regulator-mandated changes to data consolidation. But without that—or at least, universal support from participants—Max wonders whether such initiatives are doomed to being expensive headaches...

Waters | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 27 Mar 2013

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MarkitSERV, CME to Support FX Derivatives Clearing

Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives processing service MarkitSERV has announced that has connected with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in order to support the clearing of foreign exchange (FX) derivatives contracts.

Sell-Side Technology | News | Clearing & Settlement | 27 Mar 2013

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MarkitSERV Launches OTC Pre-Trade Credit Checking Facility

Trade processing specialist MarkitSERV has announced the release of Credit Center, its pre-trade credit checking facility for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions.

Sell-Side Technology | News | Clearing & Settlement | 26 Mar 2013

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First Derivatives Plans FX SEF Launch

First Derivatives has announced that it will register as a swap execution facility (SEF), dealing with foreign exchange (FX) swaps that fall under incoming US regulatory mandates.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 15 Mar 2013

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Gensler Rebuffs Regulatory Reach Critics in FIA Keynote

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Gary Gensler has defended elements of the Dodd-Frank Act over perceived extra-territoriality, in his keynote address to the Futures Industry Association's (FIA) annual conference in Boca Raton, Florida....

Sell-Side Technology | News | Regulation & Standards | 13 Mar 2013

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US Swap Clearing Officially Begins

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced yesterday that mandatory clearing had begun for certain swap trades entered into after March 11, 2013.

Sell-Side Technology | News | Regulation & Standards | 12 Mar 2013

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