Information Mosaic’s Hartlage Discusses its BI Analytics and Client Portal Offerings
Information Mosaic has been gradually adding to its arsenal of post-trade automation solutions, the latest of which is its IMConnecting offering, which aims to provide users with a customisable client portal via which to view custody related, proxy voting and corporate actions data. Ken Hartlage, head of product management and marketing for the vendor, explains...
SmartStream’s Jones Discusses the Launch of its New On Demand Corporate Actions Solution
SmartStream has launched a new on demand version of its corporate actions processing solution, TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand , in line with its push to provide software as a service (SaaS) versions of its offerings. Alan Jones, senior product manager at the vendor, explains that the solution has seen interest from mid-size...
Markit Launches Commission Management Platform
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced the launch of Markit Commission Manager. The service helps buy-side firms manage and allocate commission credits efficiently while addressing the concerns associated with maintaining such credits with a single institution. Markit is introducing this new service as increasing numbers of buy-side firms demand virtual aggregation...
Misys Focuses on Enterprise Risk, Collateral Management and Central Clearing Support, Says Dewnarain
Misys is focusing on a number of initiatives in several key areas including providing support for central clearing in the OTC markets, enterprise risk management (ERM) and cross asset collateral management, according to Denny Dewnarain, deputy European managing director of Treasury and Capital Markets for the vendor. Following its acquisition of Sophis earlier this year,...
Fitch Solutions Launches New Bank Credit Model for Credit and Counterparty Risk
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has launched its new Bank Credit Model – a product providing daily Financial Implied Ratings and Implied CDS spreads for 9,500 global banks to help risk managers improve their credit and counterparty risk surveillance, and to meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements. “As current market sentiment towards...
Chi-X Europe & Russell Indexes Unveil New European Indices
Chi-X Europe, the leading pan-European equities exchange, and Russell Indexes, a leading provider of global and U.S. indices and part of financial services firm Russell Investments, today unveil the Chi-X Europe Russell Index Series of pan-European indices. The new family of indices has been specially formulated to provide users with high quality, tradeable pan-European and...
S&P’s Jones Talks up its Bond Pricing and Valuation Offering, First in a New Line of Offerings
Following its recent (and long anticipated) official rebrand, S&P Capital IQ has released the first in a series of upgrades to its valuations biz in the form of a new bond pricing and valuation offering, which purports to provide an “independent and transparent view of multiple pricing and valuation approaches across a single issue.” Peter...
MIK Releases Enhanced SEC Master
MIK Fund Solutions, a leading provider of software solutions for hedge funds, today announced the release of a comprehensive and integrated security master solution for hedge funds and asset managers. The offering is designed as an integrated application for the tracking, reporting and processing of all security master terms and conditions and reporting attributes across...
S&P Fund Services Name Change
McGraw-Hill Financial, a segment of The McGraw-Hill Companies, today announced that it will market its unique combination of multi-asset-class data, benchmarks and analytics products under two master brands, S&P Capital IQ and S&P Indices. S&P Capital IQ will be the new master brand name for integrated desktop solutions, enterprise services and proprietary market, company and...
Pricing Partners Derivatives Independent Valuation Platform is Empowered with Analytics Function
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today to implement a new function “Price-it Online Analytics” on its web based independent valuation platform Price-it Online. This new feature allows users of its online services to access its extensive financial library to achieve advanced transparency and independence....