BoNY Mellon Upgrades Investment Analytics Product Line…
Bank of New York Mellon Asset Servicing has enhanced its Investment Analytics product line, which provides institutional investors with tools to evaluate and oversee a portfolio’s performance, structure, risk exposure and compliance. The enhancements involve expanded data coverage and improved data quality in three areas: sub-prime risk analytics, fixed income derivatives and short term securities,...
Reuters’ New JRisk On Demand Offering Packages Broad Coverage of Evaluations, Terms and Conditions
Reuters’ new JRisk On Demand, a tailored risk management solution for hedge funds developed by the Applied Networks unit that it acquired last year, not only delivers real-time risk management tools directly to individual managers’ desktops, but aims to provide “enormous” cost benefits to clients through access to Reuters reference and terms and conditions data. ...
Bloomberg Adds Pricing, Risk Data from NumeriX
Bloomberg has made NumeriX’s pricing and risk analytics available to users of its Bloomberg Professional service, via a select set of Bloomberg Professional calculators. In collaboration with Bloomberg, NumeriX has developed a fully integrated and enhanced version of NumeriX 6, its flagship pricing and structuring application, dubbed the NumeriX Bloomberg Edition. The Bloomberg version features...
Markit Completes Integration Of ABSReports Data Services
Following its acquisition of deal reporting service ABSReports at the beginning of the year (Reference Data Review, January 2007), Markit, provider of data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, has launched what it says is the first integrated pricing and performance monitoring service for the European asset-backed securities (ABS) market in a move it...
Reuters Testing Equity Derivatives Pricing Capability, Will Make Prices Available to All Clients in Q3
In a bid to keep up with customer requirements for prices across a broader range of instrument types, Reuters is currently testing a capability to price equity derivatives, with a view to making equity derivatives prices available to all clients in the third quarter. Increasingly, consumers of evaluations have a growing abundance of sources to...
With Derivatives Value Set to Break $500 Trillion Next Year, Cutting Valuations Risk is a Must, Says Celent
Analyst Celent has responded to the buzz around valuations for OTC derivatives and structured products with a report released this month in which it compares risk and pricing analytics solutions to support financial engineering and valuation functions. To put the importance of these solutions in context, Celent predicts that the combined notional value for all...
Interactive Data Adds Independent Valuations of Interest Rate Swaps Based on ICAP Benchmark Curves
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced a service that will automate the delivery of independent valuations of interest rate swaps based on benchmark curves from ICAP, and trade details input by customers. Ian Blance, vice president, capital markets, Interactive Data (Europe), says this development has been driven by client demand. “Since...
Help Out There for Asset Managers Struggling to Price OTC Derivatives, But Outsourcing No Silver Bullet
One of the many operational challenges faced by fund managers as they invest more in OTC derivatives is accurately valuing portfolios containing hard to price instruments, but the good news is that “there’s a lot of experience out there” for firms to tap into, delegates at the recent Optimising OTC Derivative Operations in Fund Management...
Helaba Invest and HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt Pick Telekurs Financial’s Intraday Pricing Service
Helaba Invest and HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt have opted to install Intraday Pricing Service (IPS) from Telekurs Financial in their organisations. Intraday Pricing Service delivers real-time snapshots at times defined by the customer. It facilitates the updated, individual valuation of portfolios and securities holdings several times a day. In combination with the Intraday Pricing Service,...
Interactive Data Expands Analytics Content to North America, Following European Launch Last Year
Interactive Data Corporation is making available analytics content, powered by its BondEdge service, to evaluated pricing clients in North America. The new Analytix Direct service, introduced in Europe in 2006 (Reference Data Review, November 2006) “delivers a range of option-adjusted measures including duration and convexity, option-adjusted spread (OAS) and key rate durations”, according to the...