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Ex-First Derivatives' Richards Starts Advisory Firm
Dale Richards, previously a data management executive and strategist at First Derivatives, has founded Island 20 Ventures, based in Toronto
ICBC Financial Services Uses XSP to Adopt ISO 20022
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services is now using the XSPrisa software from SunGard's XSP business to process corporate actions in ISO 20022, rather than using the DTCC's CCF files
Sifma tells FSOC Chair: More Regulators Must Require LEI
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association has highlighted the fact that only one US regulation requires the legal entity identifier and more than twice as many entities in Europe have registered for the identifier than in the US
Volante Adds Hadoop Support for Big Data Management
Integration of Hadoop into the Volante Designer data integration product will help users avoid manual development work when creating Hadoop-based applications
Avox to Double Staff, Addressing Regulatory, Risk Demands
Plans to take on more than 200 new members of staff at Avox's headquarters in Wales have been driven by demand for the company's existing services, rather than specific plans to create new offerings
Charles River Adds Constituent-level Benchmark Data
The Charles River Data Service is collecting constituent-level benchmark data and feeding it into the company's investment management system.
IRS Fills In Fatca Details
The US Internal Revenue Service has issued a final form for filing under the foreign tax withholding regulation, completed more agreements with foreign entities to enforce the rules and extended a key registration deadline to April 12
Wolters Kluwer Updates Reporting Capabilities for Austrian Requirements
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has used the software of the Svenson business it acquired last year to make updates necessitated by changes to Austrian reporting requirements
Recommind Automates Extraction, Display of OTC Contract Data
Perceptiv Derivatives Contract Analysis is intended to replace the often manual processes used to extract data from over-the-counter derivatives contracts, so they can fully understand the agreements and comply with new regulations
Markit Readies Swaps Identification for September Launch
Markit plans to expand its RED codes to handle reference requirements set by ISDA for credit default swaps, in an effort to better support the credit event process.
Rimes Welcomes Swinhoe to New Toronto Office
Paul Swinhoe, a business development executive with middle-office and market data experience at several service providers, has joined Rimes Technologies as sales manager in the company's new Toronto office
DTCC Adds Four to Board
Executives from Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, KCG Holdings and Goldman Sachs join the 20-member board of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
iMeta Adds Credit and Legal Functions to Entity Data Platform
A new module providing legal and credit information now sits alongside the know-your-customer and standing settlement instruction data functionality of iMeta's Assassin platform
Bank of the West Hires Goldberg
David Goldberg, a veteran of data management roles at Santander USA, BNY Mellon and JPMorgan Chase, has relocated to San Francisco from New York, to become chief data governance officer at the firm
SAP Connects Apps to Interactive Data
Interactive Data's users can now plug their applications straight into the data provider's database
Russia's NSD Uses GoldenSource Software for New Utility
GoldenSource's enterprise data management software is being used to automate the capture, standardization and validation of data in the National Settlement Depository's newly launched Center of Corporate Information
Xenomorph Integrates with R Language for Additional Analytics
Users of the R statistical language will now be able to use rich, validated data from Xenomorph's TimeScape product and Xenomorph's clients will be able to do additional analysis in the R environment
Consolidated Audit Trail Gets New Push
Bidding to become the processor of consolidated audit trail has just closed, leading into a process of choices and approvals by the SEC and self-regulatory organizations likely to last into 2015 and beyond
CFTC Opens Discussions on Standard Structure for Global UTI
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has begun speaking to other regulators about the possibility of creating a standard structure for a global unique transaction identifier
Standard Chartered Hires Nelson in Hong Kong
Barnaby Nelson, previously an executive at BNP Paribas who worked on messaging standards issues, has joined Standard Chartered in a managing director role
O'Malia Outlines How CFTC Can Tackle its Data Difficulties
Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Scott O'Malia says regulator must improve swaps data quality, and develop automated surveillance and risk analytics tools
ISITC Honors Shay for Standards Work
Jamie Shay, a former head of standards at Swift, and 40-year veteran of the industry, received the organization's Standard of Excellence Award
Interactive Data Links With Microsoft
The data services provider will deliver its data through Office 365 and Excel. Interactive Data also plans to further distribute its data through Microsoft's software-as-a-service partners
ICD Chooses Volante for Data Integration
Institutional Cash Distributors Technology will use Volante Designer to help it integrate Swift Fin, Bank Administration Institute 2 and proprietary messages in XML and other formats