State Street and InfraHedge Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Enhanced Capabilities to Institutional Investors in Hedge Funds
State Street, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, and InfraHedge, a UK-based company providing an independent governance and risk management infrastructure for institutional investors to invest in hedge funds through managed accounts, today announced a new strategic alliance marked by State Street’s majority equity investment in InfraHedge. As the...
Recorded Webinar: S&P Recorded Webinar: Confidence and Clarity – Understanding Valuation Risk
This recorded webinar will help you to understand how valuations and pricing have evolved over the last couple of years in the post-crisis environment. In this session, you will hear different perspectives on how market participants have been tackling the valuation risk challenge from Paul Sharkey of Northern Trust, James Dimech Debono of KPMG, and...
CFTC’s New Data Standardisation Subcommittee Plans 5 August Public Meeting
Following the establishment of its new subcommittee on data standardisation under the auspices of its Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) in June, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that the first public meeting of the new group will take place at 1pm (EDT) on 5 August at the regulator’s conference centre facilities in Washington....
Pricing Partners Introduces Brazilian Swaps Pricing
Pricing Partners announced today that the Price-it solution has been upgraded to support Brazilian swap conventions. The BRL swap market uses indeed different convention from other swap markets. First of all, the year fraction between two dates is computed as the difference of business days between the two dates divided by 252. Secondly, the fixed...
Indexium Signs with Cadis
Cadis , the global EDM specialist, has been selected by Indexium, to streamline its data management process. Indexium, the Swiss-based startup firm will calculate and distribute all indices for the STOXX Ltd, SIX Swiss Exchange and Deutsche Börse Group. After a successful Proof of Concept (PoC), Cadis is enabling Indexium to create new data feeds,...
Broadridge Canada Announces Enhanced Smart Securities Offering
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced the release of an enhanced version of its Smart Securities offering in Canada, which will now include New Issue Document Fulfillment. New Issue Document Fulfillment is a solution for the communication and delivery of transaction confirmations and required compliance documents to investors who have purchased new issue equity and fixed...
Robeco Completes Installation of Multifonds Fund Accounting System
Robeco, a pure-play asset manager with an active investment style has gone live with Multifonds Fund Accounting system to support its fast and efficient growth into new markets. Robeco needed a fund accounting product that provided a high degree of flexibility and a quick time to market in terms of setting up new products, coupled...
EXCLUSIVE: DTCC’s Chief Data Officer Ron Jordan on His Experiences at NYSE, Regulatory Developments and DTCC’s Future Plans
Earlier this year, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) appointed ex-NYSE Euronext market data guru Ron Jordan to the position of chief data officer (CDO) and gave him the responsibility of guiding DTCC’s commercial and regulatory data business activities. Reference Data Review speaks to Jordan about his career highlights in the exchange sector and how these...
FSB Proposes New Resolution Planning Requirements for SIFIs, Data Fragmentation Issues Highlighted
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has this week produced a consultation paper setting out its proposals for new policy measures to ensure the effective resolution of systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). The proposals cover new resolution powers and tools for national authorities, cross border arrangements, resolution planning requirements and measures to remove any current obstacles...
Pricing Partners Introduces CVA, DVA and Bilateral CVA Computation in its Derivatives Pricing Analytics
Pricing Partners announced today that Price-it library can compute CVA, DVA and bilateral CVA for all payoff based trades. Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) represents the additional cost to account for the possibility of the counterparty’s default, which is computed as the difference between the risk free market value and the one where the counterparty could...