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Vienna Stock Exchange Launches New Sector Indices
Today, the Vienna Stock Exchange started calculating and publishing new sector indices for the ATX and CEESEG (CEE Stock Exchange Group whose subsidiaries are the exchanges of Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague and Vienna) to round off its range of indices and meet market demand. The ATX sector indices are based on the companies in the ATX...
Ben Clissold Joins State Street Global Advisors as Senior LDI Portfolio Manager
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corporation, today announced the appointment of Ben Clissold as senior liability-driven investment (LDI) portfolio manager within the Investment Solutions Group. Clissold will be based in London and will report to Raymond Haines, head of European Liability-Driven Investment. Clissold joins from P-Solve Asset Solutions,...
Developing a Benchmark for Latency
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) is the non-profit, global industry organisation focused on driving increased efficiencies and cost savings for the trading community. FPL is a membership-driven organisation that works closely with firms across the globe to develop standards that address the real business challenges impacting trading capabilities. The organisation has recently turned its attention to...
BlueBay Asset Management Goes Live with Vermilion KIID Solution
BlueBay Asset Management Ltd (‘BlueBay’), a market leading asset management company, went live with Vermilion Software’s outsourced Key Investor Information Document (‘KIID’) reporting service, VRS KIID, in July 2011. This followed an extensive selection process, including the review of the other KIID reporting offerings in the market place. BlueBay selected Vermilion in April of this...
SIX Telekurs Completes New Round of Expansion of its Global Real-Time Market Data Services
SIX Telekurs has added 35 sources of real-time market data from global exchanges, institutional contributors and financial news providers since the beginning of 2011. This expansion of services brings better access to market information in the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Northern Europe. The additional real-time sources, which include upgraded services...
Bank Vontobel Replaces Old Technology with Princeton’s Data Warehouse
Swiss private bank and asset manager Bank Vontobel has implemented Princeton Financial Systems’ DVS Fund Warehouse to store investment fund master data and valuation data, and deliver improved reporting to customers. The bank has also added the DVS Ratio Calculation Engine to calculate ratios when preparing key investor information documents. Princeton, a New Jersey-based provider...
ESMA Provides FAQ on Common Definitions for European Money Market Funds Under UCITS
As part of the revised Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Directive in Europe, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Q&A document that details its guidelines for regulators regarding common definitions for the supervision of money market funds. The paper is aimed at getting European regulators in synch with...
Talend Appoints Peter Gyenes to its Board of Directors
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Peter Gyenes has joined its Board of Directors. With more than four decades of enterprise software and systems experience, Gyenes brings to Talend much relevant experience in scaling technology companies successfully. “Peter brings deep expertise in data integration and a distinguished career in operational leadership,...
Fast-Paced Futures
Whether you are trading Eurodollars in Chicago, FTSE 100 futures in London or Nikkei contracts in Tokyo, there is little to distinguish the style of listed futures and options trading or the regulatory requirements involved. From the trader’s perspective, the hundreds of thousands of instruments and the multitude of exchanges on which they trade are...
Virginie’s Blog – Opinions on Xtrakter’s AII Ambitions
Last week, the trade matching and regulatory reporting solution vendor arm of Euroclear Xtrakter marked the official launch of its Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) compliant transaction reporting solution and indicated that it is hoping to net a significant share of the market (see our coverage of which. However, given initial reader response to the news,...