IMD & IRD Awards 2020 Winners' Interview: The Derivatives Service Bureau

Victor Anderson chats to Emma Kalliomaki, managing director of ANNA and the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) and Malavika Solanki, part of the management team at the DSB, about the firm’s win in the best reference data initiative category of this year’s IMD & IRD Awards. In this phone interview, they discuss: 

• Whether the DSB, founded approximately four years ago, had achieved its aim of addressing issues around the identification and reporting of OTC derivatives under Mifid II
• The initiatives that the DSB had delivered over the course of the last 12 months that have helped industry participants’ day-to-day OTC derivatives businesses/functions    
• Capital markets firms’ current regulatory reporting pain points, and how the DSB is helping to address them
• What the industry can expect from the DSB over the next 12 months in terms of new developments, initiatives and services

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