Survey of European Insurers Reveals Remaining Challenges to Solvency II Compliance
A significant reliance on third parties for data, sophisticated risk modelling requirements and obtaining sufficiently detailed fund data were among the challenges identified by European insurers in order for them to meet Solvency II requirements, according to new research (...)
The environment of Asset Servicing activities has been experiencing significant structural movements for several years, generating both “major regulatory waves” sweeping particularly through Europe and a series of ground swells of “self-regulating” initiatives, such as the (...)
CPSS IOSCO: principles for financial market infrastructures
Through 24 principles and five responsibilities, including significant details and commentary, the BIS’s Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and IOSCO have addressed the risks faced by financial market infrastructures (...)
AMF publishes 2010 report on credit rating agencies
The AMF’s seventh annual report on credit rating agencies (CRAs) covers international regulatory developments, the European registration procedure and credit ratings.
NYSE BondMatch, the new Multilateral Trading Facility
NYSE BondMatch will enable professional investors to trade more than 1,800 international corporate, financial and covered bonds on a transparent order book with firm orders...
Sélection 1818: the new platform dedicated to independent financial advisors
Banque Privée 1818 and Rothschild & Cie Banque have signed the final agreement for the creation of their common platform dedicated to independent financial advisors, born out of the merger of Sélection R and 1818 (...)
T2S will provide a single technical platform for processing settlement instructions, in a harmonised manner, for 28 CSDs in Europe, in different currencies and at the same price for both domestic and cross-border (...)