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Toyota Tsusho Metals Deploys IPC’s Unigy Trading Platform in Japan
IPC Systems Inc., a leading provider of voice and electronic trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms, today announced the successful, live implementation of Unigy, its revolutionary new unified trading communications platform, at Toyota Tsusho Metals Ltd (TTM), Branch in Nagoya Japan, a company operating in futures and options trading on the...
Pricing Partners Introduced a Generic Solver to Smoothen Trades Structuring
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that its award winning solution, Price-it Excel is now shipped with a generic solver to enable users to structure their trades easily and seamlessly. Leveraging the scripting language that allows pricing virtually any financial derivatives, this solver can...
State Street Implements DST Global Solutions’ BPM Platform in Australia
DST Global Solutions announced today that State Street Corporation in Australia has recently implemented the company’s AWD10, a Business Process Management (BPM) platform. AWD is currently used for the management and distribution of unit trust transactions and related documentation. It is managed by both internal operations and clients who access and interact with the solution...
CMA Launches CMA NAVigate 1.8, Providing OTC Derivatives Valuations On-Demand
CMA, the leading provider of intraday CDS data and OTC market solutions, has launched a new release of CMA NAVigate, its web-based workflow solution which brings transparency and independence to the valuation of OTC positions. CMA NAVigate 1.8 introduces an intuitive user interface that provides the tools, pricing transparency and real-time support that clients require...
Thomson Reuters Addresses Valuations Transparency with TV Channel
Thomson Reuters is launching a video channel on its Reuters Insider TV service that will explain the methodologies it uses to underpin its Thomson Reuters Pricing Service for OTC valuations. The channel – the Evaluated Pricing Market Update – seeks to address market calls for greater transparency in evaluated pricing of hard-to-price or illiquid securities....
GFI Market Data to Supply Power, Coal, Gas and Emissions to Slovenian Utility
GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Petrol Energetika, a leading Slovenian energy company and the principal supplier of oil and other energy products to the Slovenian market. Petrol Energetika will use GFI market data to gain an insight into markets with limited...
NYSE Technologies Expands TAQ Historical Data Products Globally
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced the continued expansion of its Historical TAQ product suite to include European Cash Equities and Fixed Income data from Euronext markets as well as Derivatives data from the NYSE Liffe U.S. market. Complementing the recent additions of U.S. Options and NYSE Liffe derivative...
Opinion: LEI – Persistent or Unique Identity?
By Chris Pickles, Head of Industry Initiatives, BT Global Banking & Financial Markets I’ve been struggling to understand the details behind the current initiative to create a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – particularly an LEI as an ISO standard. One of the problems that we all often face when we get deeply immersed in a...
DTCC Launches Global OTC Interest Rate Trade Repository
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today announced the launch of its global, over-the-counter (OTC) interest rates derivatives trade repository. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository for Interest Rates for this US$553.8 trillion market (approximately €414 trillion or £356 trillion) will be based in London. Data from 15 of the largest global dealers is now being...
Paladyne Systems Appoints William Kelly as Global Head of Sales
Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge Company and a leading provider of next generation investment management solutions, today announced that William Kelly has joined the company as Global Head of Sales. The addition of Mr. Kelly is a strategic move to leverage the size, scale, and synergies that Broadridge brings to Paladyne through its recent acquisition. “Paladyne...