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Kinetic Partners’ U.S. Office Expands Regulatory and Compliance Practice to Meet Increased Hedge Fund Demand for SEC Registration
Kinetic Partners, a global professional services firm to the asset management, investment banking and brokerage community, today said it has expanded the regulatory and compliance team at its New York office to meet increasing demand from hedge funds undergoing SEC registration required under the Dodd-Frank Act. Donald Babbitt and Kevin Duffy Jr. have joined the...
ANZ Selects Serisys to Implement the Syn~ Platform Across its Global Markets Business
Serisys Solutions, a provider of IT solutions and services to the capital markets, announced today that it has signed a global agreement with ANZ for the implementation, roll out and 24×7 support of the Syn~ platform across its Global Markets business. Serisys will implement Syn~ as ANZ Global Markets’ unified post-trade transaction processing system for...
Citi Adds to its Securities and Fund Services Sales Team
Citigroup has hired Francesca De Bartolomeo as a director, head of Southern Europe investor sales for its Securities and Fund Services business within its Global Transaction Services unit. Based in Luxembourg, reporting to Jose Longree, EMEA head of client sales management for investors, De Bartolomeo will also be responsible for sourcing business from Latin America...
Groupe Reunica’s Muret Elaborates on its Implementation of SAS to Tackle Op Risk and Increase Efficiency
French pension fund group Groupe Reunica has been using SAS’s data warehousing solution for around 10 years, but two years ago decided to expand its implementation to cover reporting and has since rolled out SAS Strategy Management (STM). Arnaud Muret, performance director at the group, explains the progress that has been made, what is still...
Pricing Partners Speeds up General Callable Range Accrual Computation Leveraging Closed Form Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today to have implemented specific closed form solution for general callable range accrual products speeding up the computation by a factor of 100. End users are interested in computing their derivatives books at a portfolio level. Traditionally, the callable range accrual on CMS Spreads takes long time to price when using a...
Moody’s Analytics Introduces Sovereign Correlations to RiskFrontier 3.0
Moody’s Analytics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions, today announced the release of RiskFrontier 3.0, the latest version of its credit portfolio management and economic capital calculation solution. This release features a new sovereign risk correlation model that enables financial institutions to better quantify and manage the sovereign risk exposure in their portfolios. The...
Kinetic Partners Hire Kevin Huby
Kevin Huby has been appointed a Member at Kinetic Partners to focus on building the firm’s risk management and remediation services. This new appointment will complement and significantly strengthen Kinetic Partners’ highly regarded regulation and compliance service offering. Kevin joins Kinetic Partners from Ernst & Young, where he established and led a team focusing on...
S&P’s Pagliaro Elaborates on the Details of its Valuations and Risk Partnership with Sapient
Earlier this month, Sapient Global Markets and Standard and Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies (S&P VRS) signed a partnership agreement to provide their respective client bases with greater data and risk and pricing analysis capabilities for structured finance products. Reference Data Review speaks to David Pagliaro, senior director at Structured Finance Solutions for S&P VRS, about what...
Banks Being Pushed Towards a More Formalised Approach to Risk Management, Say Barclays’ Hayward and BNP Paribas’ Carette
The desire to restore trust and confidence in the market has become the driving force behind much of the investment that has gone into risk management systems, according to Bill Hayward, director of regulatory risk and group risk for Barclays Bank. Speaking at last week’s SAS user conference in Antwerp, Hayward joined Ivan Carette, director...
ANZ Global Markets to Use GBST’s Syn~
GBST, a global provider of technology services to the financial services industry, announces today that it has signed a long term agreement with ANZ for the deployment of GBST’s securities transaction platform, Syn~, for the ANZ Global Markets business. ANZ will use GBST’s Syn~ platform as a complete post trade middle and back office solution....