INNODATA ISOGEN, INC. (NASDAQ: INOD) today announced that the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has selected Michael Will,
President and Chief Product Officer of Innodata’s docGenix division, as
a member of its new Technology Advisory Subcommittee on Data
Standardization.
The CFTC has stated that the purpose of the Subcommittee is "to develop
recommendations regarding a standardized reference data depository
representing the universe of legal and financial terms utilized in
describing, defining, and valuing the various derivatives and other
financial instruments which are presently and in the future may be
traded on and off of regulated exchanges. The creation of standardized
reference points and data terms is anticipated to aid in the development
and use of universal entity, product, and/or instrument identifiers and
provide greater consistency in the collection, reporting, and management
of individual transactions, underlying legal documents (including master
agreements and credit support agreements), and risk exposures." (Federal
Register notice dated May 2, 2011, seeking nominations to the
Subcommittee)1.
Of 52 nominations received by the CFTC in response to the Federal
Register notice, the CFTC announced on June 23 that it selected 19
members from companies including (in addition to Innodata’s docGenix)
Barclays Capital, Blackrock, Bloomberg, Citigroup, CME Group (the
derivatives exchange), Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC),
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Goldman Sachs, Google,
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), International Swaps and Derivatives
Association (ISDA), MarkitSERV, Society for Worldwide Interbank
Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) and Thomson Reuters, as well as
federal agency observers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), the U.S. Treasury/Office of Financial Research (OFR),
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
In its June 23 announcement2,Commissioner Scott O’Malia, the
chairman of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee, stated that he
"was pleased by the large number of extremely well-qualified nominees
for participation in the work of this important subcommittee.” With
regard to the Subcommittee’s charter, Commissioner O’Malia also stated,
"Data is the foundation of our market oversight activities and it is
essential for the Commission and the market to agree on well-accepted
standards for describing complex financial products.”
The Subcommittee will be chaired by the CFTC Chief Economist Andrei
Kirilenko and will conduct at least three sessions. The sessions are
planned for the summer, fall and winter of 2011 and will be open to the
public. The Subcommittee will consist of the following four working
groups: product and entity identification; semantic representation of
financial instruments; machine-readable legal documents, and storage and
retrieval of financial data. The Subcommittee will present a report with
its recommendations to the Technology Advisory Committee, which will
consider the report and make recommendations to the CFTC as to what
further actions warrant consideration.
"I am pleased to have been selected by the CFTC for the Subcommittee on
Data Standardization,” stated Michael Will, President and Chief Product
Officer of Innodata’s docGenix division. My ongoing exchange of ideas
with representatives of the CFTC, SEC and OFR have underscored for me
the timeliness of our investment in launching Innodata’s docGenix
division and building the docGenix XML data model, a computer-readable
algorithmic description of the legal agreements that govern derivatives
trades. I am looking forward to sharing our work with my fellow
committee members and the industry at large.”
The docGenix XML data model was developed over the past several years
and represents over 27,000 man-hours of development by finance lawyers
and XML architects. It contains a standardized yet flexible reference
model of the universe of legal and financial terms utilized in Master
Agreements, Credit Support Agreements and other financial agreements and
is capable of being transformed into a variety of different data formats
that can interface with in-house applications (such as collateral and
risk management systems) as well as third party systems (such as swap
data repositories) and docGenix’s own product suite.
In an interview reported by the Financial Times on June 26, Commissioner
O’Malia told the Financial Times, "We are looking for fresh ideas,
people who have experience sorting and managing data.”
About Innodata’s docGenix Division
docGenix is a services division of Innodata Isogen (NASDAQ: INOD).
docGenix provides web-based applications that enable financial services
firms to generate, negotiate, monitor and analyze the negotiated
provisions of Master Agreements and Credit Support Agreements published
by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ("ISDA”),
as well as financial and legal documentation relating to repos,
securities lending, prime brokerage, investment management and clearing.
Using the docGenix product suite, firms can proactively manage risks
embedded in these documents - such as ratings downgrade and Net Asset
Value triggers - by performing deep portfolio analysis and stress tests.
The docGenix applications also provide Web Services data feeds designed
to interface with in-house applications (such as collateral and risk
management systems) as well as third party systems (such as Swap Data
Repositories).
The docGenix applications and data feeds are enabled by an XML data
model that represents derivatives and other financial/legal documents as
computer-readable algorithms. This XML data model was developed over the
past several years and represents over 27,000 man-hours of development
by finance lawyers and XML architects. It contains a standardized yet
flexible reference model of the universe of legal and financial terms
utilized in Master Agreements, Credit Support Agreements and other
financial agreements.
docGenix provides managed services, including digitization and analysis,
to enable its clients to transform legal contracts through its XML Data
Model efficiently and quickly, as well as consulting and technology
services to integrate its Web Services data feeds with in-house risk
management systems and to customize in-house systems.
For more information, visit www.docgenix.com.
About Innodata Isogen
Innodata Isogen (NASDAQ: INOD) is a leading provider of publishing,
digital content and related information technology (IT) services.
We work as a product development partner to our clients, helping them
meet their content creation and publishing challenges. We provide
services that draw upon global resources, proven project management and
highly engineered processes and tools. We also help our clients improve
their internal business operations with process and systems engineering.
Our clients include leading enterprises in information-intensive
industries such as media, publishing and information services, high
technology, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, law, government and
intelligence.
Recent honors include Global Services Media’s Global Services 100,
EContent Magazine’s EContent 100, KMWorld Magazine’s 100 Companies That
Matter in Knowledge Management, the International Association of
Outsourcing Professionals’ (IAOP) Global Outsourcing Top 100, D&B
India’s Leading ITeS and BPO Companies and the Black Book of
Outsourcing’s Top List of Leading Outsourcing Providers to the Printing
and Publishing Business.
Headquartered in the New York metro area, Innodata Isogen has offices
and operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel,
India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
For more information, visit www.innodata-isogen.com.
About the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Congress created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 1974
as an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures
and option markets in the United States. The agency's mandate has been
renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently by the
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
The CFTC assures the economic utility of the futures markets by
encouraging their competitiveness and efficiency, protecting market
participants against fraud, manipulation, and abusive trading practices,
and by ensuring the financial integrity of the clearing process. Through
effective oversight, the CFTC enables the futures markets to serve the
important function of providing a means for price discovery and
offsetting price risk.
For more information, visit www.cftc.gov.
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1
http://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/public/@lrfederalregister/documents/file/2011-10556a.pdf
2
http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6056-11.html
