US Government Threatens to Step in for Mark to Market Improvements
Members of the US Congress have indicated that the government will step in to take action if the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) does not take swift action to improve mark to market accounting standards. The industry has been discussing potential improvements to the controversial accounting rules over the last couple of months but there...
Ventura Management Associates and On-Course Advisors Launch Client Relationship Management Forum
Ventura Management Associates, a boutique advisory firm focused on reference data and client information data strategy, has partnered with On-Course Advisors to launch a client relationship management (CRM) forum. According to Ed Ventura, president of Ventura Management Associates, the semi-annual CRM Forum will be aimed at bringing together industry participants to discuss best practices relating...
Fitch Solutions Adds Risk and Pricing Benchmarks to Risk and Performance Platform
Against the background of greater regulatory scrutiny of firms’ risk management practices, Fitch Solutions has incorporated new risk and pricing benchmarks into its Fitch Risk and Performance Platform, which was launched in June last year. Jonathan Di Giambattista, senior director at the vendor, indicates the benchmarks, which can be visualised via a new product feature...
Interactive Data Partners with Korea’s Koscom for Pricing and Reference Data
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with Koscom, under which the Korean IT solution provider will provide the data vendor’s international pricing and reference data to the Korean investment community. The data covered by the agreement includes international end of day pricing and corporate actions data. Koscom was established in...
Standard Chartered Picks GoldenSource for Corporate Actions Golden Copy Creation
Standard Chartered Bank has chosen GoldenSource Securities & Products to automate the creation of its golden copy corporate actions notifications. The Asian bank began looking for a corporate actions validation solution in early 2008 and began talking to the vendor about the implementation before year end, explains Gert Raeves, senior vice president of strategic business...
SuperDerivatives Upgrades VolSurface Solution for Mark to Market Rules
Derivatives data specialist SuperDerivatives has upgraded and renamed its derivatives revaluation and risk management offering, VolSurface, to accommodate improvements to market data and risk reference data. The service, which is now called Mark-to-Market Data, has been altered to more adequately meet the requests of its customers following recent feedback, says the vendor. Dani Weigert, Mark-to-Market...
Kuwait’s Markaz Rolls Out Fincad Analytics for Derivatives Pricing and Analytics
Middle Eastern asset management and investment banking firm Markaz has completed the rollout of Fincad Analytics for its derivatives pricing and analytics. The firm, which is based in the Kuwait Financial Centre, has implemented the solution as part of its wider plans to build options trading and technology infrastructure for the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Hussein...
China Life Asset Management Opts for DSTi’s HiPortfolio/3 for Accounting
China Life Asset Management Corporation (CLAMC) has completed the rollout of DST International’s (DSTi’s) HiPortfolio/3 investment accounting solution. The firm, which is one of the largest institutional investors in China, opted to implement the solution with a view to increasing its STP and allowing its managers to more effectively monitor their portfolios. Zhang Feng Min,...
Cadis Integrates London Stock Exchange’s Datalect into its EDM Suite
EDM vendor Cadis has integrated the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) Datalect product suite into its EDM Suite, including the exchange operator’s Sedol Masterfile service. According to the vendor, the data has been integrated via a new Cadis adaptor, which it claims will enable clients to maximise the value of the data that the LSE provides...
Regulatory Compulsion is on the Cards and ECB is Looking at Data Semantics Repository, Says Atkin at TSAM 2009
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council has been involved in a “whirlwind” of meetings with regulators over recent months to further the cause of data management, said EDM Council managing director, Mike Atkin, at TSAM 2009 this week. The European Central Bank (ECB) in particular is looking at the area of data semantics adoption in...