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In today’s regulatory environment there are numerous know-your-customer checks that need to be performed and accurate client and counterparty data checks that need to be made to ensure global regulatory obligations are met. Not only do firms need to make substantial changes to their internal processes to meet these requirements, they must ensure that the counterparty and client data they hold is accurate from the outset and then efficiently managed on an ongoing basis. Legal entity data management is far from a simple task, however, and with a swathe of risk management and investor transparency requirements due to enter into force over the coming years, firms need to give this critical activity the appropriate consideration.
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The Singapore Exchange logged record volume of derivatives transactions in November with daily average trading volumes up 45% year-on-year, following the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect last month. This was primarily driven by FTSE China A50 futures and SGX FX futures in the Indian rupee and renminbi. -
Michael Davie, CEO of LCH.Clearnet Limited, has been appointed group chief operating officer in a newly created role. Martin Pluves, COO of the firm, will replace Davie as CEO.
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The International Swaps and Derivatives Association has elected Eric Litvack, managing director and head of regulatory strategy for Société Générale’s global banking and investor solutions business, as its new chairman. He will take over from current chairman Stephen O’Connor, on January 1, 2015.
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Hedge funds are eyeing a relative value strategy playing the divergence between iTraxx Main and 10 year swap spreads.
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Compression — a technique for reducing the numbers of trade in a portfolio while keeping the same risk profile — could change the way investors trade derivatives as greater numbers look to the balance sheet enhancing service to reduce their notional outstanding, according to Daniel Maguire, global head of SwapClear.
