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Pricing Partners Provides Smoother and Faster Greeks for its PDE Engine
Pricing Partners announced today to enhance its derivatives pricing library with smoother and faster Greeks for its PDE engine. In an effort to provide faster and smoother Greeks for its generic PDE engine, Pricing Partners has recently enhanced its generic PDE grid engine equipped with on-the-fly Greeks calculations with a fixed grid. This accelerates substantially...
Will NYSE Tussle Turn NASD?
Keeping abreast of the to’ing and fro’ing between the various entities vying for control of NYSE Euronext has added a certain piquancy to simultaneously hosting a panel discussion on Optimising Latency in a Fragmented World at our Business & Technology of Low Latency Trading events this month in London and New York. Assessing the connectivity...
Quantifi’s Latest Whitepaper Explores the Challenges in Implementing a Counterparty Risk Management Process
Quantifi, a provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, has published a whitepaper entitled ‘Challenges in Implementing a Counterparty Risk Management Process’. The paper explores the key challenges for banks in the implementation of counterparty risk management, focusing on data and technology issues, in the context of current trends...
SIX Telekurs’ Filanowski Highlights the Biggest Data Challenges of Dodd Frank
The Dodd Frank Act contains a whole host of new and different data requirements in terms of reporting formats and potential standards, but how will all of this impact the practitioner and vendor communities directly? Reference Data Review speaks to Paul Filanowski, US product development at SIX Telekurs, about the changing US regulatory scene and how it...
A Low Latency Cocktail from The Brewery
Last week, I chaired A-Team’s first Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading event – #BTLLT for the twittersphere – at The Brewery (a former Whitbread Brewery, it’s now an established events venue), and these are a few geeky highlights from my day. Starting with the toy I wanted for Easter … it’s called RoboTrader from...
Breaking News: Ex-Morgan Stanley Economist Berner Takes Over US Treasury and OFR Role from Alexander
Following on from the recent departure of Lewis Alexander from the US Treasury, the regulator has appointed former Morgan Stanley chief economist Richard Berner to take over Alexander’s role as advisor on domestic financial matters to Treasury secretary Tim Geithner. A key part of this job is helping the Treasury to establish the new Office...
IMS Group Boosts Consultancy Practice
The IMS Group (IMS), a provider of global regulatory compliance consulting and integrated business support to the asset management and securities industry, has further bolstered its consultancy offering with the hires of Jonathan Mott, Oksana Selezneva and Claire Carpenter. IMS has seen a year of rapid growth, including the acquisition of compliance consultancy MMS in...
Interactive Data’s Williams Heads to Rival SIX Telekurs for Senior US Sales Role
Following the post-acquisition management shake-up at Interactive Data, former president of institutional sales Cort Williams has jumped ship to join data vendor rival SIX Telekurs as its new executive vice president for sales and business development in the Americas region. Williams, who has been with Interactive Data since 1996, will focus on direct and redistributor...
RBC Dexia Strengthens Client Relations in Switzerland With New Director
RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Corinne Vitte as director of relationship management in Switzerland, starting 2 May 2011. Vitte will further strengthen RBC Dexia’s relationships with its existing client base in Switzerland and Luxembourg, adding to the appointment of Andreas Schmid to a similar role earlier this year. She will report to Marco Siero,...
Would Google Really Buy Thomson Reuters Markets?
The idea that Google would be interested in – and is indeed seeking to – acquire Thomson Reuters Markets first came to my attention at the London Stock Exchange, oddly enough. I was there for a function, and after a panel discussion about the future of the exchange marketplace, I got chatting with a gentleman...