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Pricing Partners Offers New Methods to Generate Large Volatility Surface for Thomson Reuters Market Data Users

Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that its award winning Price-it has been upgraded to provide analytical tools to compute large volatility surfaces from option data provided by Thomson Reuters 3000 Xtra or Eikon solution. Indeed, one of the difficulties when pricing structured products...

M&G Investments Selects MoneyMate’s DataManager

MoneyMate, a leading provider of investment data management solutions to the global asset management industry, today announced that it has been selected by M&G Investments to implement DataManager to ensure the accurate, efficient and controlled delivery of M&G’s fund product data to internal departments, external agencies and external clients. DataManager will host M&G’s range of...

BNY Mellon Agrees $125 Billion Outsourcing Mandate with Bridgewater Associates

BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has been selected by Bridgewater Associates to provide middle- and back-office outsourcing services for approximately $125 billion of assets. BNY Mellon will support Bridgewater’s strategy of delivering diversified alpha and beta strategies for clients via its dedicated outsourcing platform – BNY Mellon OnCoresm. Services...

National Australia Group’s Campbell Discusses its Recent Master Data Management Project

National Australia Group (NAG) was engaged in a total of 22 data related projects last year, according to the group’s information architect Martin Campbell. Speaking at this month’s FIMA conference in London, Campbell discussed the decision to implement a new master data management system in partnership with software and consulting firm IPL in order to...

Talend’s New Community Coders Program Highlights Vendor’s Open Source Contributions

Talend , a global open source software leader, today announced the Community Coders Program, an initiative to provide a single source of information on all contributions made by Talend to open source community projects. Launched at ApacheCon North America 2011, the program allows community members and contributors to engage and discuss their work on open...

GoldenSource’s Engdahl Elaborates on M&G Investments’ Platform Upgrade

Earlier this week, GoldenSource indicated that longstanding client M&G Investments has upgraded its implementation of the EDM vendor’s platform. Steve Engdahl, senior vice president of product strategy at the vendor, explains how the upgrade fitted into M&G’s Solvency II compliance preparations. The European asset management firm first bought the GoldenSource solution back in 2003 in...

PolarLake Announce Solution Suite for Financial and Reference Data

Today PolarLake announce the availability of the PolarLake Solution Suite. The PolarLake Solution Suite, which is the result of numerous successful client implementations and joint developments, offers four out of the box solutions built on top of the PolarLake Data Management Platform. The PolarLake Solution Suite includes: Ø PolarLake Price Processing Solution: Including an out...

Loomis Sayles Selects Cadis as its Central Data Hub

Loomis Sayles & Company, US-based investment management firm with over $156 billion AUM, has selected the Cadis EDM platform to centralize its data management processes. Cadis, the global EDM specialist, will provide a significant enhancement to the company’s infrastructure, delivering cleansed and validated data while allowing for increased transparency and data governance throughout the organization....

Basis Technologies and UC4 to Provide Customers with Integrated Solutions for Large Scale Automated Data Processing

Basis Technologies International (BTI), a leader in add-on solutions that optimise SAP, has announced a strategic partnership with UC4, the world’s largest, independent IT automation software company. The partnership will deliver innovative solutions for SAP customers, including the integration of BTI’s Mass Data Runtime—a solution which delivers dramatic data processing improvements and is certified as...

M&G Upgrades GoldenSource EDM Platform

M&G Investments (M&G), one of Europe’s leading investment managers with £200 billion of assets under management, completed an upgrade to GoldenSource EDM version 8 in May 2011. Along with the upgrade, M&G extended GoldenSource’s enterprise data management (EDM) platform to utilize the derivatives capabilities, doubling instrument volumes and delivering trusted, consistent information to power key...