Interactive Data Promotes Duggan for the Second Time This Year, Adds TALF Offering to Evaluations Portfolio
Following the recent departure of Shant Harootunian, Liz Duggan has received her second promotion in the space of a year, as she steps into Harootunian’s shoes as managing director of Interactive Data’s Evaluations business. The vendor has also recently signed an exclusive agreement with Prism Valuation to offer the vendor’s valuations for loans made available...
Sophis Value 4.0 Delivers Next Generation Risk Management and Investment Decision Support to Investment Managers
Sophis, a provider of cross asset, front to back portfolio and risk management solutions, today announced the launch of version 4.0 of Value, its solution for investment management companies. This latest release incorporates significant developments in investment decision support and risk management capabilities as well as a complete upgrade of the core system architecture to...
Harness UK Selects Fincad Analytics for Derivatives Valuations
Fincad, a global provider of financial analytics, and Harness UK today announced that Harness Liquid Macro Fund has selected Fincad Analytics to provide real time derivatives pricing and risk monitoring. Harness uses Fincad Analytics Suite for Excel as its primary desktop derivatives pricing solution for front office applications such as trade evaluation, risk monitoring of...
DST Global Solutions Appoints Head of Risk Solutions for North America
DST Global Solutions, a provider of business solutions and services to the global investment management industry, has today announced the appointment of Edward Dumas to spearhead its Risk Management Solutions in North America. Dumas joins DST Global Solutions from Manzanita Advisors where he served as President and was responsible for the corporation’s strategic focus, customer...
Algorithmics Awarded Patent for Loan Valuation Technology
Algorithmics has received a patent for technology that enables financial institutions to derive fair market values for their loans and other credit related instruments using techniques designed to improve accuracy and transparency relative to current industry approaches. The technology will help banks structure, price, value, simulate and subsequently risk manage their complex loan portfolios in...
Thomson Reuters Integrates Kamakura’s Default Probabilities into CDS Pricing and Analytics Suite
Thomson Reuters today announced that it has integrated Kamakura’s default probability service into its flagship financial desktop, Reuters 3000Xtra. Kamakura’s default probabilities are now available via Reuters 3000 Xtra covering a universe of more than 1,500 public firms and close to 100 sovereign entities. Along with Thomson Reuters credit default swap (CDS) spread data, the...
Pricing Partners Implements Double-Heston Model for its Equity Module
Pricing Partners announced today a state-of the art stochastic volatility model, the Double-Heston Model, to be implemented for its Equity, FX and Commodity Module to enrich its Price-it Library. Based on the Heston Model generated by Steven Heston, Double-Heston Model is identified as an extension committed to forecasting a more flexible approach to model the...
Numerix to Provide Lehman Brothers Holdings with Valuations for its Outstanding Derivatives Contracts
Over a year after the collapse of the investment bank, Lehman Brothers Holdings (LBHI) has selected Numerix to provide it with independent real-time valuations for its one million outstanding derivatives contracts. According to the valuations vendor, the deal is one of largest and most comprehensive valuations projects of its kind to date. Steven O’Hanlon, president...
Interactive Data Teams up with Pluris to Provide Daily Independent Valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business now offers clients daily valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities (ARS) including Student Loan Auction Rate Securities (SLARS), from Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC, a provider of market-based valuations of illiquid securities. “Interactive...
Erste Group Appoints CMA DataVision for CDS Valuations, Risk Management and Trading Support
CMA, the credit information specialist, today announced that Erste Group Bank AG, one of Central & Eastern Europe’s largest financial services groups, has selected CMA DataVision to provide independent CDS price verification for use across their Valuations, Risk and Trading departments. Harald Müller, Head of Structuring & Credit Markets at Erste Group, commented “We looked...