LSE’s Husler Discusses Motivation Behind FactSet Partnership for UnaVista
Earlier this week, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) announced that it has commenced a joint venture with data vendor FactSet Research Systems to add its entity data to the UnaVista platform. Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the LSE, explains the details of the deal to Reference Data Review. Under the partnership agreement,...
Accuity Enhances SSI Presentment in the Global Banking Resource
Accuity, a provider of payment routing data, AML screening software and services is pleased to introduce new enhancements that have been made to its industry leading online payment look up tool, the Global Banking Resource (TGBR). The Correspondents page on TGBR has been reconfigured to allow users to more easily associate correspondents with specific beneficiary...
SuperDerivatives Boosts Global Strategic Sales Group
SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark, has strengthened its global strategic sales team with the appointment of financial systems and derivatives expert David Collins. Collins joins SD as European head of strategic sales, reporting to Zohar Hod, vice president of strategic sales and business development, and will draw on his extensive expertise in the implementation of...
Raising the Practical Challenges of CEBS’ Risk Related Proposals
Next month, industry practitioners will have four opportunities to provide feedback to the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) on its risk related proposals, including those around concentration risk and stress testing. The regulatory body has organised four separate hearings at its London premises to garner feedback on a number of its recent consultation papers,...
Pricing Partners Opens New Office in Singapore
Pricing Partners announced today the opening of its new regional office in Singapore to provide global distribution of its products and services suite across Asia and respond the requirements in independent revaluation. After already signing a distribution agreement in Hong Kong, Pricing Partners continues to more effectively provide permanent local support to its Asian client...
Korea Bond Pricing to Market Interactive Data’s Bond Evaluations
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with Korea Bond Pricing (KBP), an agency appointed by the Korean government to provide valuations for fixed income and derivative instruments to the Korean market. KBP will provide local...
Counterparty Risk Managers Need Greater Access to Credit Risk Data Within Buy Side Firms, Says Fitch Solutions’ Di Giambattista
There is a clear need within the counterparty risk manager community for more tools and better access to data related to credit risk analytics, according to Jonathan Di Giambattista, managing director of risk and performance analytics at Fitch Solutions. Di Giambattista bases his judgement on a recent survey of 85 counterparty risk managers in buy...
SimCorp Proves Readiness to Process Swift ISO 20022 MX Messages
Swift and SimCorp have together successfully completed a proof of concept, which demonstrates that SimCorp Dimension, SimCorp’s solution for investment management businesses, can accept, process and transmit Swift ISO 20022 MX messages. MX messages are increasingly used in the securities industry, with adoption extending beyond Europe to Asia and the US. MX messages offer more...
CME Group Opts for Fitch Solutions and CMA Pricing Solutions for Clearing Operations
As part of its endeavour to establish itself as a clearing counterparty (CCP) in the OTC derivatives market, CME Group has this month selected two pricing solutions to support its CCP’s credit default swap (CDS) pricing and intraday risk management services: CMA’s DataVision and Fitch Solutions’ CDS Pricing Service. Anna Mazzone, vice president of product...
FIRMS’ Valuation & Risk Strategies Group Launches Valuations Transparency Initiative
Following the restructuring of the Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS) unit to combine its securities evaluations, valuations services and market research teams into one group last month, the Standard & Poor’s owned analytics and research group has launched a new transparency initiative for fixed income valuations. The vendor is now offering the assumptions data...