Citadel Solutions Picks Markit for Portfolio Valuations
Citadel Solutions, a provider of hedge fund administration and reporting services, and data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit have signed an agreement under which Markit will provide Citadel Solutions’ clients with independent portfolio valuations. John Buckley, president of Citadel Solutions, explains: “This agreement is part of the multi-vendor strategy we use...
Interactive Data Completes €19 million Purchase of Italian Reference Data Supplier Kler’s
Interactive Data Corp. has completed the acquisition of Italian reference data provider Kler’s Financial Data Service Srl. for €19 million in cash. The move is part of Interactive Data’s plan to boost its presence in the European marketplace. Rome-based Kler’s provides corporate actions and taxation information, coverage of Italian and international securities including equities, listed...
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Buys Compliance Online
Originally appeared in MiFID Monitor Wolters Kluwer Financial Services has purchased Compliance Online, an online compliance information provider focused on regulatory information, analysis, news and value-added commentary for the UK’s financial services market. Compliance Online provides UK customers with explanatory regulatory information to help the customers understand how to conduct business under the Financial Services...
BCC di Roma Picks SunGard’s Reech FastVal for OTC Derivatives Valuations
Italian bank La Banca di Credito Cooperativo (BCC) di Roma has selected SunGard’s OTC derivatives valuation service, Reech FastVal, for the valuation of its structured products. According to SunGard, the bank has chosen to use the service on an application service provider (ASP) basis to keep costs down and speed up implementation. The vendor says...
Interactive Data Connects to GGY’s Axis for Fixed Income Analytics
Interactive Data Corporation has added an interface to the BondEdge structured finance cash flow engine and library through GGY’s Axis system. The Axis system’s pricing, valuation and modelling tools can now be used for the complex fixed income securities modelled by Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics. According to the vendor, the fully integrated offering is...
SimCorp Integrates Fincad Derivatives Analytics into Dimension
Fincad and SimCorp have entered into an agreement to integrate Fincad’s derivatives pricing software into SimCorp’s investment management enterprise solution, SimCorp Dimension. The global agreement extends SimCorp Dimension’s integrated pricing mechanism to encompass a wider range of derivatives than previously available, including credit derivatives and instruments implemented within the system’s new XpressInstruments framework. Søren Pedersen,...
Counterparty Data Has Become a Driver for Growth, Says A-Team Group, GoldenSource and CounterpartyLink
Senior managers have finally got a handle on counterparty data’s importance with regards to risk and entity exposure and they are now attempting to leverage it as an asset to fuel growth, according to recent research carried out by A-Team Group and sponsored by GoldenSource and CounterpartyLink. The research, entitled Counterparty Data Emerges as a...
Know Your Counterparty: The Importance of Centralised, Quality Counterparty Data
By Rick Enfield, product business owner at Asset Control The rise of alternative investment classes and derivative products corresponds with an increase in the number of counterparties financial institutions are dealing with today. While financial institutions have kept a close watch on systemic and operational risk factors, additional levels of investment complexity, coupled with a...
FOW Tradedata Launches MiFID Compliant Futures and Options Symbology
Originally appeared in MiFID Monitor Futures and options reference data vendor FOW Tradedata has added symbology for prescribed European futures and options markets under MiFID’s mandatory transaction reporting requirements to its Xymbology service of Alternative Instrument Identification (AII). Gregg Whitbread, product manager for Xymbology, explains: “It was a natural extension of FOW Tradedata’s service offering...
SIS SegaInterSettle Releases Plans to Further Automate Corporate Actions
SIS SegaInterSettle has released plans automate the messages it receives from issuers and to introduce a record date for corporate actions in the Swiss market by November next year. The plans are part of a wider project launched by Swiss Financial Market Services (SFMS) to promote automation in the domestic securities industry. The Swiss CSD’s...