Pricing Partners Successfully Completed the Platform Test for ISV Solutions to Become Microsoft Certified Partner
Pricing Partners announced today that Price-it successfully completed the Microsoft ISV (independent software vendor) Solutions Platform Test. The platform test for ISV solutions is the breadth test that allows software vendors to measure their solution’s technical capabilities against a specific set of Microsoft technical quality standards. Pricing Partners adopts the latest Microsoft .NET technologies for...
SIX Group’s Information Biz is Down 3% Revenue on Previous Year’s First Half Figures
The revenue for the first half of this year for SIX Group’s financial information business, SIX Telekurs, is down 3% on the previous year’s figure for the same period. According to the vendor, the decline from CHF205.3 million in 2009 to CHF199.1 million this year was largely attributable to the negative effect of the euro...
RBS is in the Final Stages of Consolidating Legal Entity Database Across Wholesale Business, Says Davies
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group may have faced a substantial fine this month from the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) with regards to failures related to its anti-money laundering (AML) checking process, but a lot of work has been going on in the background at the firm in order to get its customer database...
Numerix Continues Expansion Across Asia Pacific; Opens South Korean Office
Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management has opened a new regional office in Seoul, South Korea, becoming the first derivatives analytics company to provide local sales and quantitative support in the South Korean region. The new Seoul office symbolises the growth and importance of the derivatives markets in...
Societe Generale Securities Services Mandated by Santander Asset Management to Provide OTC Valuation and Collateral Management Services
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been mandated by Santander Asset Management, the asset management division of the Santander Group, the 6th largest financial services group in the world by market capitalisation, to provide a range of asset servicing for its Luxembourg-domiciled funds which are administered and deposited with SGSS. SGSS has been selected for...
Ball is in Swift’s Court to Convince of the Benefits of the BIC as an LEI, Says SEB’s Strandberg
Christine Strandberg, global product manager at SEB Global Transaction Services, reckons Swift has a job to do to convince the market of the benefits of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier. However, she is confident that due to the experience of the industry network operator in the standards development process, Swift...
Tullett Prebon’s OTC Valuations Opens Sales and Client Service Offices in London and New York
Tullett Prebon today announces that OTC Valuations Ltd (OTC Val), its technology driven services firm providing independent price verification services to clients globally, has opened sales and client service offices in London and New York. The openings mark an immediate expansion of the business, following the recent acquisition of Vancouver based OTC Val by Tullett...
SEB’s Strandberg is Unsure About the Benefits of XBRL for Corporate Actions STP
Some in the market may be convinced of the benefits of XBRL for the entire corporate actions process (see our interview with BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s Paul Bodart for example), but not everyone agrees that it is the key to increasing end to end straight through processing (STP) in the space. Christine Strandberg, global product...
Industry Groups Petition Against CESR’s Proposed Client Categorisation Regime Changes Under MiFID
Industry groups and associations including the Alternative Investment Management Association (Aima), the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Futures and Options Association (FOA) have all indicated that they do not wish the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) to push ahead with its proposed changes to the MiFID client categorisation regime as...
Opinion: Bridging the Counterparty Risk Gap
By Xavier Bellouard, co-founder at Quartet FS With the European stress testing exercise this summer casting a further spotlight on the industry, financial institutions across Europe are continuing to grapple with risk management. In particular, counterparty risk exposure is under the spotlight after coming to the fore during the demise of Lehman’s. While the majority...