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StatPro Appoints RiskMetrics Man as Sales Director
StatPro Group plc, a global provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for investment professionals, has appointed Ruggero Frisina as European Sales Director. Commenting on the appointment, CEO of StatPro Group plc Justin Wheatley said: “With the launch of StatPro Seven this year and that of Revolution in 2011, we wanted to bolster our...
FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its...
Xenomorph CEO Brian Sentance Spearheads North American Expansion
Xenomorph, the leading analytics and data management solution provider to global financial markets, has today announced that founder director and CEO Brian Sentance has moved to New York to spearhead the company’s North American growth and further boost its presence in the market. The company, which first opened a sales and support operation in North...
Euroclear’s de Pauw Talks up Corporate Actions Standards, T2S’ Ongoing Impact
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has been spending a lot of time recently consulting with its user groups about market best practices and standards and how it can improve its servicing of the corporate actions space, according to Edwin de Pauw, director of product management at the ICSD and CSD. This is only natural...
CSB Faces Lobbying on Cusip ID Fees from Three US Industry Associations
Reflecting the general desire within the user community for lower costs and easier access to instrument identifiers, this week, three US-based industry associations have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking the regulator to step in and limit the fees that Standard & Poor’s’ Cusip Service Bureau (CSB) charges for its...
Q&A: CSI’s Emilio Mercado on the Release of MDAL
Emilio Mercado is director, financial services product & strategy at the Collaborative Software Initiative. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to him about the recent release of MDAL – The Market Data Abstraction Layer – which has a goal of providing a single API to access market data across an enterprise, avoiding vendor lock-in. Q: Why is MDAL needed?...
CECA Extends Use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics for Valuing Complex Derivatives
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), the National Association of Spanish Savings Banks, is expanding its use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics, a comprehensive suite of derivatives pricing models used by international financial institutions for derivatives pricing and structuring, risk management, model validation and benchmarking. The extended use of FastVal will help the association’s financial...
Fidelity ActionsXchange Captures Corporate Actions Faster/Closer to Source
Fidelity ActionsXchange, a Fidelity Investments company and leading provider of global corporate actions and related security events, today introduced an enhanced version of its ActionService platform, which automates and customizes the delivery of corporate actions, such as stock splits and corporate restructurings, on more than 2.5 million securities to some of the world’s largest financial...
Reference Data Review on Securities Matching from the Sibos 2010 Opening Plenary
One of Swift’s biggest pushes for the securities sector as part of its new 2015 strategy is in the securities matching services space. During the Sibos 2010 opening plenary, Swift played the following video, demonstrating industry perspectives on this initiative. Reference Data Review elaborated on the utility versus competitive approach. Video of 16535038
SunGard’s Hug Talks up the Need for an Integrated Framework for Risk and Capital Management
There is a gradual change going on across the industry from considering compliance with the Basel framework as a box ticking exercise to using these underlying risk management practices as an opportunity to more intelligently allocate capital, conduct profitability analyses and make better business decisions, according to Andi Hug, general manager for SunGard’s Ambit Risk...