Pricing Partners Derivatives Independent Valuation Platform is Empowered with Analytics Function
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today to implement a new function “Price-it Online Analytics” on its web based independent valuation platform Price-it Online. This new feature allows users of its online services to access its extensive financial library to achieve advanced transparency and independence....
Prominent German Pension Fund Selects SimCorp Dimension
A renowned German occupational pension fund with more than EUR 6bn under management has selected SimCorp Dimension as its future investment management system. SimCorp Dimension will be used as a seamlessly integrated solution, from portfolio management to accounting, for the firm’s entire range of investments. Critical to the pension fund’s choice of SimCorp Dimension was...
HSBC Securities Services Announces the Successful Implementation of its New Performance Measurement and Attribution Platform
HSBC Securities Services (HSS) today announced that it has successfully implemented its new performance measurement and attribution platform, BI-SAM B-One (B-One), with the first client now live. B-One will be used to provide performance measurement and attribution analysis to HSS clients around the globe, and is the first stage in a series of major developments...
Interactive Data Enhances International Content for Fund Administrators and Custodians by Further Enhancing Alliance with Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of independent pricing and valuation services, today announced that it has expanded its agreement with Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia Sdn Bhd (BPA Malaysia), a leading national bond pricing agency. Interactive Data is now distributing evaluated pricing for long-term Malaysian fixed income assets from BPA Malaysia. Demand for this content...
LBBW Takes Control if its Data with Xenomorph’s TimeScape
As part of its market data management project to improve the internal model for Market Risk calculations, LBBW (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg), one of Germany’s largest banks, has implemented Xenomorph’s TimeScape analytics and data management solution. TimeScape provides the bank with a high performance data management system which enhances risk management, delivers validated market data based upon...
Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO) Goes Live With Calypso as Central Valuation Solution
Calypso Technology, a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions and corporate treasuries, announced today that Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO), a fully owned subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., has gone into production with the Calypso system as its core derivatives platform for valuation and risk....
Pricing Partners Adds a Stochastic Rating Model to its Financial Library
Pricing Partners announced today that it added a stochastic rating model to its Price-it derivatives pricing library that enables to price ratings linked products. Euro Medium Term Notes based on Rating have become more popular as ratings play a central role in the financial world and are easily understandable for investors. A typical structure is...
Increased Sophistication of Triggering Strategies Being Applied for Fair Value Within Mutual Funds
Interactive Data’s recent survey indicates that its mutual fund clients are using increasingly sophisticated triggering strategies to determine whether to apply fair value methodologies to their global equities. Reference Data Review speaks to Rob Haddad, director of Evaluated Services at the data vendor, about the trend towards multiple benchmarks and trigger levels and the increased use of...
CMA Launches CDS Pricing that Factor in Quanto Risk
CMA, the leading provider for intraday CDS data and OTC market solutions, has announced the launch of a new product that takes into account the CDS ‘Quanto’ spread of key Euro-zone Sovereigns. Given European sovereign CDS are typically traded in USD and not the domestic currency (Euros), in order to accurately mark-to-market, holders of Sovereign...
Tullett Prebon’s OTC Valuations Introduces High-Volume Low-Cost Price Verification Service (PVS)
Tullett Prebon today announces that OTC Valuations (OTC Valuations), its technology-driven services firm providing post-trade securities and derivative valuation services to clients globally, has rolled out its new OTC derivative price verification service aimed at high volume portfolios of vanilla through to complex products. Daily valuations are typically charged at $0.20 USD, which includes full...