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A-Team Group Webinar Offers Insight into Improving Data Contributions
Data contributions to financial benchmarks have been a cause for concern since the Libor scandal emerged in 2012, yet despite heavy fines imposed on banks that manipulated the rate, only now are efforts to improve the situation being made in earnest. Addressing the issues of data contributions to the market, an A-Team Group webinar entitled…
Atlas ATS Deploys Strevus Compliance Solution to Support Digital Currency Exchange
Atlas ATS, a New York based cryptocurrency trading exchange, has deployed a Strevus hosted solution to ensure that its institutional customers achieve Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance as required under the US Bank Secrecy Act. The exchange is up and running with the Strevus compliance lifecycle management solution in New York…
European Fund Administration Benefits from AIM Portfolio Pricing Solution
European Fund Administration (EFA) has deployed AIM Software’s GAIN Portfolio Pricing business application to manage increasing regulatory requirements around portfolio pricing and meet growing client demand for more frequent net asset value (NAV) calculations. The AIM portfolio pricing application, which is based on the company’s GAIN enterprise data management platform, is the central component of…
Fidessa Develops FIX-Based Affirmation Service for the Buy Side
Fidessa is pushing further into the post-trade space with the addition of an affirmation management service (AMS) for the buy side. The service is due to be available in the fourth quarter of 2014 and follows the introduction of Fidessa’s FIX-based Post-trade Hub for the confirmation of trades between buy-side and sell-side firms in August…
Fidessa Promotes David Polen to Global Head of Electronic Execution
Fidessa has appointed David Polen as global head of electronic execution with responsibility for developing the company’s platform and electronic execution capabilities across global markets. Reporting to Mark Ames, global head of sell side services, Polen will deliver a range of managed solutions that will allow brokers to present their clients with intelligent and cost-effective…
DST Enhances Anova Position Keeping to Deliver IBOR Product
DST has enhanced the position keeping element of its Anova post-trade data management, analytics and reporting suite to deliver a fully-fledged investment book of record (IBOR) designed to provide asset managers with near real-time visibility of positions and valuations. Anova has included the capability to consume transactions and events, and provide continuously updated valuations and…
Bloomberg Extends Vault with File Analytics for Dark Data
Bloomberg has added File Analytics to its Vault enterprise information management service with a view to helping organisations locate and manage dark data held in files and documents. The company defines dark data as ‘unstructured, untapped data that is held by organisations, which has not been analysed or processed’, and says users of the Vault…
Vulpes Cuts Costs with Markit’s Expanded Portfolio Valuations Service
Vulpes Investment Management has increased data accuracy and decreased vendor and technology costs by deploying valuations, risk and straight-through-processing (STP) provided by Markit. The Singapore-based investment manager was using different vendor systems to support portfolio management, execution, evaluation and risk across asset classes including exchange traded derivatives, private equity and illiquid debt holdings, but wanted…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Feeling the Collars of the Libor Traders
Financial institutions are bracing themselves for further regulatory clampdown on market pricing on the wake of the LIBOR and FX market manipulation scandals. As regulators draft new guidelines for benchmark data contributions, and UK Chancellor George Osborne signals increased scrutiny of the London FX market’s pricing procedures, data managers and compliance officers are assessing their…
Misys Pitches Sophis Value as an IBOR Solution
Misys is responding to buy-side need for an Investment Book of Record (IBOR) with its Sophis Value cross-asset, front-to-back-office investment management suite. The positioning of Sophis Value as a solution that enables firms to maintain an IBOR comes ahead of a wider product positioning and rebranding campaign that is expected to improve the alignment of…