BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Launches New Fair Value Pricing Offering
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has announced the launch of its new Fair Value Pricing offering, allowing clients to undertake a revaluation of equity and futures positions in markets that have closed prior to the valuation point of the fund. Principal benefits include: • More accurate asset valuation and hence a more accurate fund NAV •...
Interactive Data to Provide Evaluations for US Residential Whole Loans
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it will offer a new evaluations service for US whole loans (non-securitised residential mortgage loans). This service is expected to be available in the second quarter of this year. The new evaluations service can help financial institutions with the...
Quantifi Announces 2010 Success in New Markets
Quantifi, a leading provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced that 2010 was a positive year for the firm as a result of its success in new markets, innovative product launches and industry recognition. “2010 was a busy and exciting year for Quantifi with significant new product...
Troika Dialog Boosts its OTC Derivatives Products with SuperDerivatives
Troika Dialog, the largest private investment bank in Russia, has announced that it has selected SDX from SuperDerivatives (SD), the global derivatives benchmark and leading multi-asset front office system, to power its FX derivatives business. SD is the market’s benchmark system for emerging markets derivatives pricing and data. SDX delivers exceptional accuracy by using a...
ISDA Comments on Proposals Issued by the IASB and FASB
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) welcomes the efforts of the International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board to seek convergence on their current US GAAP and IFRS models regarding offsetting of assets and liabilities in the balance sheet. ISDA believes that reporting derivatives positions on a net basis where netting...
Nearly 40% of Buy Side Firms Don’t Have Internal OTC Derivatives Pricing Capabilities, Says BNY Mellon Research
A large proportion of the buy side is falling short with regards to its internal pricing capabilities, according to a research paper by Bank of New York Mellon, with nearly 40% of the respondents to its recently conducted survey indicating that they have no in-house capabilities and are relying on counterparty valuations alone for the...
UCITS IV Compliance Requirements are Driving Interest in SunGard’s FastVal Solution, Says Compton
Regulatory change has been kind to the valuations solution vendor community of late, with requirements for increased transparency and independence providing these firms with a perfect ‘in’ to financial institutions’ back offices. Accordingly, SunGard’s FastVal solution has witnessed this uptick in interest as a result of the increased investment in derivatives by the more traditional...
Isbank Reduces Credit Risk by Adopting Fitch Solutions’ Risk & Performance Platform
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, is pleased to announce that Isbank, Turkey’s national bank, has reinforced its credit risk reduction processes by subscribing to Fitch Solutions’ Risk & Performance Platform (RPP), thus expanding its ability to access credit risk measures, CDS pricing and ratings data. Isbank reinforced its extensive credit risk reduction...
NFA in the Frame to Take Over Derivatives Registration from the CFTC, But What of Regulatory Follow up?
Last week, Reference Data Review noted that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is contemplating ceding control over data registration requirements to another body, namely industry group the National Futures Association (NFA). The result of such an action, which itself is being driven by the regulator’s funding woes, could mean that power and influence is back in...
SEI Focuses on Providing Valuations Transparency and Independence to the Buy Side, Says Oakes
Middle office outsourcing solution provider SEI has recently upgraded its pricing and valuation offering for the buy side by adding more third party data feeds and a new online Manager Dashboard tool . June Oakes, solutions director in SEI’s Investment Manager Services Division, explains to Reference Data Review that the upgrade is aimed at ensuring its...