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Razor Risk and Numerix Partnership Delivers Integrated Enterprise Risk Solution

TMX Group’s Razor Risk Technologies, the Australian enterprise risk provider acquired by TMX early last year, has teamed up with Numerix to strengthen its front-office capability and offer an integrated front-to-back risk solution. The Razor platform will call on Numerix’s pricing models for its credit risk, market risk and economic capital management solutions, supporting clients...

StatPro Adds Regulatory Compliance Solutions to Revolution Cloud Platform

StatPro has added a global exposure and liquidity monitoring module to the StatPro Revolution App Store. The module is designed to help asset managers meet UCITS IV regulation and is the first in series of regulatory compliance solutions being developed for the StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics cloud platform. The exposure and liquidity monitoring tool is...

Misys Combines Existing and New Technology Concepts to Deliver Risk Insight

Misys has developed the risk aggregation tool and interactive dashboard it introduced as a component of Misys Global Risk in November 2012 to deliver Misys Risk Insight, a broader solution with dynamic functionality aimed at meeting the needs of both risk officers and business managers. Misys Global Risk, a modular enterprise risk platform, was the...

FATCA – Ask for Directions or Read the Map?

By Nick Jones, Senior Consultant, Citisoft. The approach to handling transaction data for FATCA reporting should build on both ‘male’ and ‘female’ strengths in the organisation. Looking at transactions, we see that FATCA requires the reporting of a) individuals’ account balances (and in due course, income and proceeds) and b) withholding tax. This is detailed...

Industry Underprepared for OTC Derivatives Trading and Market Regulation

By Ganesh Iyer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services, IPC Systems While recent years have seen much talk of financial reforms, there has remained a distinct lack of clarity around what new regulations will mean for financial institutions. In the trading industry, the regulations that will have the biggest impact are European Market Infrastructure...

Opinion: Will Banks Meet The Regulatory Challenge?

By Stuart Grant, EMEA Business Development Manager – Financial ServicesSAP If we examine today’s regulatory landscape across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), we see a minefield of complexity and requirements that financial organisations must meet. In the UK specifically, with Basel III and papers such as The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s (BCBS)...

Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Just How Fat is Fatca?

With the final regulations for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) now published by the US Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS), financial institutions have no more excuses for failing to get their houses in order to be compliant with the act. They certainly aren’t happy with the additional regulatory burden of Fatca,...

Ion Trading Acquires Twice to Add Strength in Treasury Risk Management

Ion Trading is back on the acquisition trail, this time building strength in treasury management systems through last week’s takeover of Horsham, Pennsylvania-based Financial Software Systems and the acquisition the previous week of London-based IT2 Treasury Solutions, through subsidiary Wall Street Systems. A dark horse in capital markets, Dublin-headquartered Ion Trading has quietly developed a...

Wolters Kluwer Integrates Acquisitions to Deliver Single Platform Risk and Compliance Solutions

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ decision to abandon the brand names of FRSGlobal, which it acquired in September 2010, and FinArch, which it acquired in July 2012, marks a major step forward in the company’s work to integrate the acquisitions’ products to form a combined offering driven by a single business oriented data architecture. The product...

Markit and CTI Tackle Fatca Compliance with Service Bureau

Markit and Compliance Technologies International (CTI) have teamed up to target the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) compliance market, but unlike most vendors the companies propose a Fatca service bureau rather than a deployed or hosted solution. Their aim is to serve fund types and sizes that typically outsource IT and do not have...