GFI Market Data to Supply Power, Coal, Gas and Emissions to Slovenian Utility
GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc., announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Petrol Energetika, a leading Slovenian energy company and the principal supplier of oil and other energy products to the Slovenian market. Petrol Energetika will use GFI market data to gain an insight into markets with limited...
Morningstar and Density Make the Funds’ Transparency Easier within the Solvency II Framework
Density Technologies, a French software vendor dedicated to asset management professionals, and Morningstar France, a leading provider of independent investment research, today announce the automatic integration of Morningstar market data feeds into DT Suite, Density Technologies’ software solution. Morningstar provides one of the biggest and most complete databases in terms of funds with over 400,000...
SunGard Enhances MarketMap with Chinese Content and Risk Tool
SunGard has released a new version of its MarketMap market data solution that provides Chinese language content, a reputational risk tool and new list browsers to help support faster research by asset class. As trading volumes in Asia rise, the region’s demand for financial information is growing, led by China.(i) The inclusion of Unicode, a...
Linedata Moves into Risk Market through Riskdata Partnership
Linedata has taken a short cut into the risk market through a global partnership with Paris based Riskdata, a provider of risk solutions for asset managers and institutional investors. The companies signed the partnership last month and Linedata is working to embed Riskdata’s risk analytics functionality into its Beauchamp portfolio management system. The company has...
Advent Adds BITA RISK to Alliance Partner Program in Europe, The Middle East & Africa
Advent Software, Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced that BITA Risk, the global provider of private client suitability assessment, risk profiling and profile monitoring applications, has joined Advent’s Alliance Partner program. BITA Risk combines deep industry and academic expertise in portfolio risk, analysis, construction and...
Opinion: Big Data Solutions to the Problem of Volume
By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services With the latest developments in the European debt crisis reverberating across the globe, the importance and necessity of managing the large amounts of data related to risk exposures is apparent more than ever. As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the ability...
Moody’s Analytics Launches RiskAuthority, Its Next Generation Basel III Solution
Moody’s Analytics, a leader in risk measurement and management, today announced the launch of RiskAuthorityTM, its next generation regulatory capital management solution. A comprehensive Basel I, II, and III compliance solution, RiskAuthority enables risk professionals to calculate, consolidate and report their organization’s credit, market, operational, concentration and liquidity risk. Developed specifically for banks, credit institutions...
Platform Computing Dramatically Simplifies Private Cloud Management for Enabling Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service
Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today launched Platform ISF 3.0, the latest release of its award-winning software for building private and hybrid clouds. Designed to dramatically improve customer productivity when deploying and managing application services, the new version includes the Platform Cloud Application Designer, which allows customers to create...
BondDesk Completes BondWorks Rollout at Raymond James
BondDesk, the premier provider of retail fixed income trading technology and execution services, today announced that it has completed its latest rollout of the revolutionary BondWorks™ wealth management platform with Raymond James Financial and its network of approximately 5,400 financial advisors. Today’s announcement follows the BondWorks initial deployment with Janney Montgomery Scott and more than...
Opinion: Harnessing Big Data to Mitigate Risk
By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services Systemic risk was at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008, and is again on everyone’s mind as the current sovereign debt crisis unfolds. Regulatory and industry efforts are, therefore, focusing on getting a more accurate view of risk exposures across asset...