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B-One Solution Selected by Nomura Asset Management for Performance, Risk Attribution and Client Reporting
BI-SAM today announced that Nomura Asset Management U.K. has selected its B-One platform for performance, attribution and risk measurement, for its U.K. operations. The U.K. implementation is seen as a potential step towards future global deployment. With seven offices world-wide, Nomura Asset Management is a leading global asset manager. The company’s U.K. office provides a...
Reval’s Okochi and Trozzo Highlight Valuations and Data Impacts of US Swaps Market Reforms
It seems everyone’s talking about the data impacts of the Dodd Frank reforms at the moment. Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) hosted a public roundtable on the subject of the new recordkeeping requirements and related standards efforts, and derivatives risk and valuations solution provider Reval also hosted its own webinar on the...
Asset Control to Deliver Enriched Price Construction, Curves Leveraging FINCAD’s Analytics Library
Asset Control, the world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, is partnering with FINCAD to offer mutual customers enhanced valuation and analytics for fixed income, derivatives and curves firm-wide through integration between Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform and FINCAD’s industry leading financial analytical library. Accurate and consistent financial valuation analytics alongside prices are...
AWD Connects Email Capture and BPM
With AWD, the industry-leading business process management (BPM) solution from DST Technologies, companies can now automatically capture incoming email and initiate processing without custom code. Unlike alternative BPM solutions, AWD delivers out-of-the-box integration for inbound email. AWD can identify email by subject, parse data from within the message, determine the work required, prioritise and route...
SIX Telekurs and FinancialCAD Extend Data and Analytics Partnership
SIX Telekurs, a leading financial information provider, and FINCAD, a provider of industry standard financial analytics, are pleased to announce that they have signed agreements to extend their long-standing partnership. The extended relationship allows FINCAD’s customers to take advantage of SIX Telekurs’ rich database of global securities prices in FINCAD’s online derivatives valuation service,...
CFTC Roundtable on Unique Product IDs Highlights Mountain Yet to Climb in Terms of Setting Instrument Standards
This week’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) public roundtable on the technical aspects of the introduction of new unique product identifiers (UPIs) highlighted the mountain still yet to climb in terms of setting instrument identification standards. Much recent progress has been made on the legal entity identification front as a result of the combined work...
ISMAG’s Gubert Promotes Voluntary Corporate Actions Standardisation and a “Bottom up” Approach in Europe
Earlier this year the International Securities Market Advisory Group (ISMAG) released its Operational Market Practice Book, which details the roles and responsibilities of the participants in the end to end corporate actions chain. John Gubert, chairman of the association, explained at this week’s Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) seminar why his association has taken...
Thomson Reuters Appoints Paul Klug Head of Investment & Advisory in Asia
Thomson Reuters today announced Paul Klug has been appointed the Head of Investment & Advisory in Asia. The continued expansion of Thomson Reuters leadership team in Asia Pacific underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to the region. In this new role, Klug will define and execute a growth strategy for all of the Investment & Advisory...
Virginie’s Blog – Guess Which Country in Europe is Furthest Ahead with Corporate Actions Standardisation…?
When I found out this week which European country is furthest ahead with regards to the adoption of the Corporate Actions Joint Working Group’s (CAJWG) standards it certainly surprised me. But when you realise the role and the approach that the central securities depository (CSD) in the country has adopted, it all makes sense… And...
PolarLake Announce Support for Bitemporal Data
Today PolarLake announces support for Bitemporal Data in the PolarLake Data Management Platform. This will allow clients to make changes to Historic Data, view the changes to Historic Data over time and also look at the detailed history of the Data updates. This extends PolarLake’s capabilities in processing Financial Data such as Pricing, Trade and...