Wells Fargo Chooses SimCorp Dimension
SimCorp has announced that Wells Fargo Bank, a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co, which is the fourth largest financial services company in the United States by assets, has extended its usage of SimCorp Dimension. With Wells Fargo & Co’s acquisition of Wachovia Corporation in 2008, Wells Fargo was already benefitting from the installation of...
SunGard Enhances FastVal Independent Valuation Service
SunGard has released a new version of FastVal, its independent valuation service for vanilla cash and complex structured products and OTC derivatives. SunGard’s FastVal 3.0 provides financial institutions with transparency of the models and underlying market data used in the valuation, as well as enhanced Greeks, greater functionality in the running of intraday valuations, and...
Pricing Partners and Belatos Limited Team Up for Broad Distribution of Price-it Solution Suites in Asia
Pricing Partners has established a distribution agreement with a new partner, Belatos Limited. The distributor will deliver Pricing Partners’ full solution suites throughout the entire Asia Pacific region. First line support will be provided out of Belatos’ Hong Kong office. The promising Asian market is growing at a high rate. Independent valuation services and tools...
Reval’s Okochi Appointed to CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee
Jiro Okochi, chief executive officer and co-founder of Reval, a global derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions provider to over 375 publicly traded companies, was voted a member of the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC) by the five members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Okochi will participate in the next meeting of...
RiskVal Opens Taiwan Office For Follow the Sun Support, Development
RiskVal Financial Solutions, a provider of fixed income and structured credit trading and risk management platforms, has opened a permanent office in Asia. The new office in Taipei, Taiwan will enhance 24 hour support operations for RiskVal products, as well as adding additional software development resources. “RiskVal is pleased to provide follow the sun support...
Fitch Solutions Launches CDS Pricing Asia Close Service
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has today extended its CDS Pricing Service to now include consensus pricing data which captures Asian market closing prices. This will provide enhanced transparency on the credit default swap (CDS) pricing of entities traded in Asian markets and further improve both users’ risk management processes and their...
Interactive Data Now Delivers Intraday Fixed Income Valuations
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it now delivers intraday fixed income valuations to help clients around the world more closely monitor portfolio value changes and provide European and Asian domiciled funds with new inputs to their fair value procedures. Employing a variety of advanced...
New Implementation of Massive Grid Computing Empowers Pricing Partners’ Valuation Service
Pricing Partners (www.pricingpartners.com), the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models and analytics for derivatives and structured products, announced today that its impressive pricing tool, Price-it Valuation, is now empowered with massive grid computing to significantly accelerate the pricing speed for its flagship independent valuation service, Price-it® Online, delivered as a SaaS...
NRI Partners with Numerix for Valuation Services
Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for the structuring, valuation and risk analysis of derivatives and structured products, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement with Nomura Research Institute (NRI), Japan’s largest consulting and IT consulting firm, to provide valuation services for NRI’s Japanese client base. The partnership announcement marks a...
Pricing Partners to Present its Latest Work on Variable Annuities (GMxB) at the Paris Finance International Meeting
Pricing Partners announced today that Pierre Gauthier will be presenting the company’s latest work on Impact of Stochastic Interest Rates and Stochastic Volatility on Variable Annuities at the 7th Finance International Meeting in Paris on December 17 and 18, 2009 at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci. During his presentation, Gauthier, co-head of quantitative research...