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smartTrade Secures Contract Wins in London and Japan
By Zoe Schiff smartTrade Technologies has secured contract wins in London and Japan. In London, the trading solutions supplier will build and host an e-trading platform for R5FX, a new liquidity pool dedicated to emerging market currencies trading. In Japan, smartTrade will host its LiquidityFX low-latency connectivity platform for Gaitame.com, an online foreign exchange company....
Commerzbank Details Use of Asset Control’s Data Management Platform
Commerzbank has upgraded its Asset Control AC Plus data management platform to gain extended audit capabilities, increase functionality around the creation and display of yield curves, and benefit from the company’s Risk Data Manager component, which was introduced in June and provides better risk controls than were previously available on the platform. This development is...
DeltaOne and Horizon Software Partner to Provide an Integrated Solution for ETF Quoting and Hedging
By Zoe Schiff DeltaOne Solutions and Horizon Software have partnered to deliver an integrated solution that provides a single place to analyse and implement index and exchange traded funds (ETF) trades, in turn allowing market makers and traders to quote and hedge ETF trades with greater accuracy. The partnership brings together DeltaOne’s index and ETF...
Dutch Pension Fund Service Provider PGGM Centralises Data with SimCorp Data Warehouse
PGGM Vermogensbeheer, the second largest pension fund service provider in the Netherlands managing close to €200 billion worth of pension assets and operating as a cooperative with 686,000 members, has selected Simcorp’s data warehouse to centralise data for reporting and analytics. The co-operative first worked with SimCorp in 2006, when it implemented SimCorp Dimension for...
Silverfinch Sets Up Wiki to Support Information Sharing on Solvency II Data Model
Silverfinch, a fund data utility designed to support asset managers and insurance firms in meeting the look-through requirements of Solvency II, has set up a Wiki page dedicated to helping industry participants resolve issues around the regulation before it takes effect in January 2016. The company has loaded the Solvency II tripartite data exchange template,...
Thomson Reuters Adds Continuous Evaluated Pricing Updates
Thomson Reuters continues to build out its pricing service with the provision of intraday evaluated pricing for government and corporate bonds, and the promise of similar evaluated pricing availability for all fixed income instruments either this year or next. The company says the addition of continuous pricing updates throughout the day from Monday to Friday...
Corvil Webinar Discusses the Problems of Packet Loss and Some Potential Solutions
By Zoe Schiff Packet loss caused by network congestion or packet corruption can make trading strategies irrelevant and cause unwanted costs, but these problems can be resolved by using tools that provide visibility of packet loss and its effects. A recent webinar presented by James Wiley, director of technical product marketing at network data analytics...
A-Team Webinar Discusses the Challenges and Opportunities of Risk Data Management
Risk data management has become a focus for many financial institutions, not only as a means to comply with incoming regulations, but also as the basis of business benefits ranging from reacting quickly to deteriorating situations to optimising capital requirements and cutting operational costs. A recent A-Team Group webinar discussed the growing importance of risk...
Joining up your regulatory response: BCBS 239 attestation and the new Senior Manager Regime (SMR)
By Dennis Slattery, CEO, EDMworks The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is pushing forward with a strategy requiring senior managers to sign written statements or “attestations” in which they personally confirm their firm’s compliance with particular regulatory requirements. But it’s not just the FCA as global regulators are pursuing similar agendas. BCBS 239 being a case...
Talking Intelligent Trading with Andrew Delaney: We Are All Fintech Now
Fintech this, fintech that. It’s everywhere you turn. A bit like social media for finance just a couple of years back, whose community of tweeters and chatterers have fallen eerily silent (although tweeting is silent anyway, isn’t it?). Sitting over a Turkish lunch in Whitecross Street with a 30-year veteran of the high-performance market data...