Markit Announces Roll of Markit CDX Indices
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced that its Markit CDX North America Investment Grade and Markit CDX Emerging Markets indices will roll into their next series on September 20 2011. Final membership lists are available here. The Markit CDX NA HY will roll on September 27 2011. A final membership list...
Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO) Goes Live With Calypso as Central Valuation Solution
Calypso Technology, a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions and corporate treasuries, announced today that Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO), a fully owned subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., has gone into production with the Calypso system as its core derivatives platform for valuation and risk....
Thomson Reuters Grows Legal Entity Data Solution to Address Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of an expanded legal entity data solution, which will be available for retrieval via Thomson Reuters DataScope Select and Thomson Reuters DataScope Onsite. This offering significantly expands the firm’s legal entity content capability, which is approaching coverage of 1 million entities across nearly 250 markets and 50 languages. Thomson...
XSP Unveils eTRAN+ Customizable User Interface for Web-Based Notification and Response Capture Processing
XSP, the global leader in automated end?to?end Corporate Actions solutions, today at Sibos unveiled eTRAN+, its latest innovation for Web?Based notification and response capture. This next?generation widget is built leveraging the XSP GO!™ framework to provide clients with a customizable user interface to manage Corporate Actions notification and response processing. Its predecessor, the eTRAN (Electronic...
Swift’s Vandenreydt Elaborates on the Three Pillars of its Reference Data Strategy
Swift has broken its reference data strategy down into three main pillars: its response to the Sifma led, Office of Financial Research (OFR) sanctioned working group focused on developing a new legal entity identification (LEI) standard; its payments reference data efforts; and its (rather nebulous at the moment) securities reference data strategy. Fabian Vandenreydt, Swift’s...
Leading Global Custodian Banks Think Custodians Should Be More Involved In The Settlement And Account Instruction Process, According To New Survey
Despite a heightened focus on risk management and increased levels of automation within custodian banks worldwide, the settlement and account instruction (SI) process still relies heavily on manual processes, introducing risks and costs into the trade lifecycle, according to research by Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency. The survey, conducted by Omgeo in July...
SmartStream Announces TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand, Delivering Enhanced Event Automation as a Service
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced the launch of a new service, TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand, delivering enhanced event management through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. TLM Corporate Actions Event Management On Demand delivers the proven event management capabilities of SmartStream’s TLM Corporate Actions solution as a...
XSP Enters Into Alliance with DTCC and Signs Certified Partner Agreement for Global Corporate Actions Validation Service
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end corporate actions solutions, announced that it has signed a Certified Software Partner agreement with DTCC Solutions. XSP and DTCC have enjoyed a longstanding relationship offering their mutual clients solutions that reduce the risks and costs associated with this highly-complex process and this new DTCC certification program will ensure...
Fitch Launches Global Fund Quality Ratings Powered by Lipper Data
Fitch Ratings today launches a new type of fund rating – Fund Quality Ratings – that combines Fitch’s expertise in qualitative fund analysis with rankings and performance data from Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company and leading provider of fund performance data. Fitch’s Fund Quality Ratings offer an independent, forward-looking assessment of a fund’s key performance...
Pricing Partners Adds a Stochastic Rating Model to its Financial Library
Pricing Partners announced today that it added a stochastic rating model to its Price-it derivatives pricing library that enables to price ratings linked products. Euro Medium Term Notes based on Rating have become more popular as ratings play a central role in the financial world and are easily understandable for investors. A typical structure is...