FPML
Digital Rights Project for Data Usage Faces Legal, Operational Hurdles
Keen to trim the resources they expend on interpreting licenses, investment firms are exploring how they can turn data agreements into machine-readable code. Doing so is fraught with challenges.
Technology Takes Aim at Post-Trade Black Holes
The influence of regulation and new technology is prompting a hard look at how post-trade processes can be improved, and perhaps even replaced entirely.
FIX Community Sponsors ISIN Study Group
Association helping efforts to standardize OTC markets
Players on Loan: Data Governance, Settlement Automation Nearer as CLOs Reemerge
Leveraged loans are touted as an alternative to uneven bond yields, while collateralized loan obligations are scratching at pre-crisis levels. Yet despite years of collective pushes toward straight-through processing, loan products remain the “last…
ISDA Backs OTC Clearing Standard
Launched by Sapient over the summer, the Clearing Connectivity Standard now has the support of the OTC derivative trade group.
Troves of Trade Information
Trade repositories are set to become a common feature of the over-the-counter derivatives market globally. But what challenges and benefits do the facilities present for the companies that will operate them and the firms that will report to them, asks…
ISDA Delays FpML Version 5.0
NEW YORK-The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has delayed the release of version 5.0 of its derivatives trading communication protocol, the Financial products Markup Language (FpML), as it extends coverage to collateral management.