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SunGard Adds Data from GFI Group to Enhance its FastVal Derivatives Valuation Service
SunGard has added data from GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (“GFI”), to help enhance the quality of the data in SunGard’s FastVal, which provides independent valuation services. GFI, a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products for global financial markets, will supply FX data to...
Interactive Data’s Fair Value Information Service Now Offers New 16:00 CET Evaluation Point
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of independent pricing and evaluation services, today announced an expansion of the capabilities of its Fair Value Information Services (FVIS) by introducing a new 16:00 Central European Time (CET) evaluation point for Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern equity securities. This new service is designed to help meet the fair value...
Cisco Introduces 40 Gig Switch, PTP and Buffering Stats
Cisco Systems has added the Nexus 3016 switch to the lineup that it’s pitching at low-latency financial trading. It’s Cisco’s first to support 40 gigabit per second ethernet communications, which reduces network serialisation latency. The 1RU 3016 features 16 ports, each of which can be operated at 40 gigabit per second, or alternatively at 4...
Stuart Guinness to join Credit Suisse as Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific
Credit Suisse announced today Stuart Guinness will join Credit Suisse as a Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific in the Asset Management Division, effective November 3, 2011. He will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Neil Harvey, Head of Asia Pacific and Head of Emerging Markets globally and Sudip Thakor,...
Interactive Data and FINRA Provide Transparency into Structured Securities Market
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics, and related solutions, today announced that Interactive Data and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have developed a set of reports designed to provide transparency into market activity related to U.S. structured securities on a daily basis. The reports consist of the U.S. Structured...
Broadridge Canada Announces BR Mobile for Financial Advisors
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced the availability of the BR Mobile solution for financial advisors in Canada, as a new product offering for Canadian securities dealers using Broadridge’s Dataphile solution set. This new solution from Broadridge creates a real-time mobile extension of the ProPhile advisor desktop, allowing advisors using the most popular mobile devices to...
Virginie’s Blog – Regulatory Change and LEI Discussions Dominate at DMRAV (Not to Mention the G20 Meeting)
As I previously predicted, the spectre of incoming regulation and the standards developments around a new legal entity identifier (LEI) were popular topics for discussion at yesterday’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in London. Panellists and delegates alike discussed the changing dynamics within the data management universe that have meant much...
RBC Dexia Extends Mandate with Comgest to Provide KIID Services
RBC Dexia Investor Services today announced that it has won a new mandate from Comgest, the independent international asset management group, to provide Key Investor Information Document (KIID) services to the Dublin domiciled umbrella, Comgest Growth Fund. RBC Dexia provides a variety of services to Comgest, including fund accounting, custody and financial reporting. The KIID...
S&P Capital IQ Signs UBRD to CreditPro
S&P Capital IQ Risk Solutions today announced a deal to provide CreditPro to Russian bank, Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UBRD). The agreement allows UBRD to access S&P ratings, rating migrations, defaults and recovery database on more than 15,000 issuers, 130,000 securities, 150,000 structured finance tranches, and 140 sovereigns. CreditPro enables credit professionals to...
BNY Mellon Launches Solvency II Asset Data Reporting & Governance Solution
BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has launched a new data management solution to meet the European insurance industry’s Solvency II asset data reporting requirements. The new service, built around Eagle PACE(TM), Eagle Investment System’s data management platform, provides Pillar 3 Quantitative Reporting Templates (QRT) reporting. It also supports insurance...