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FNB Custody and Trustee Services Goes Live with DST Global Solutions’ HiPortfolio Asset Servicing Solution
DST Global Solutions, a leading global provider of software technology and services to the investment management industry, today announced that FNB Custody and Trustee Services, part of one of the largest financial institutions in South Africa, has gone live with its HiPortfolio solution for investment accounting and asset servicing. The solution has resulted in improved…
Q&A: Mat Young of Fusion-io on Making Flash Fast
Fusion-io is about high performance Flash – aka NAND – storage, though – as Mat Young, EMEA senior director at the company points out – it would be wrong to view it as a SSD player. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked him to explain … Q: Can you begin by describing what Fusion-io does? What are your products?…
Latest Release of DataFlux Data Management Platform Expands Support for MDM and Data Governance
DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the general availability of the DataFlux Data Management Platform 2.2, a single platform for data management, data quality and data integration. The product also provides enhanced master data management (MDM) capabilities and adds features to allow business analysts and data stewards to initiate and manage…
Andrew’s Blog – Joyeux Noel FISD Style
The FISD’s European Holiday Party last night was – as it always is – a fun affair, and a great way of doing the rounds of the market and reference data set before the Christmas Break. Less jolly was the General Meeting’ flagship regulation panel, which saw panellist after panellist express frustration, confusion and downright…
CFTC’s Gary Gensler: Shining a Light on Swaps Transparency
CFTC chairman Gary Gensler has urged market practitioners to rally behind the Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms that will boost transparency in derivatives markets and outlined the steps the derivatives regulatory agency has taken to improve transparency in the swaps markets it oversees. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Office of Financial Research and the Financial…
Q&A: Chad Attlesey of Hardcore Computer on Overclocking … And How To Do It!
A recent performance benchmark conducted by Citihub resulted in a lot of talk about “overclocking” of CPUs, and what the driver for it is. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked Chad Attlesey, CTO of overclocking leader Hardcore Computer, to explain what it’s all about, how to overclock reliably, and what performance gains might be seen. Q: Can you begin…
Moscow Based Bank Implements Quantifi XL for OTC Pricing and Analytics
VTB Capital, the investment banking business of Moscow based VTB Group, has implemented Quantifi’s OTC analytics, pricing and portfolio valuation solution to support its recently established credit derivatives and hybrids trading desks, and to reduce risk. The client and supplier started talking early this year after a Quantifi user from another financial institution joined VTB…
Andrew’s Blog – The Hard Slog That Is Valuations
Great session on transparency in OTC securities at Andaz this week at a breakfast hosted by Interactive Data and featuring a practitioner panel moderated by our own Angela Wilbraham. It’s always refreshing to hear a frank exchange of views, and the panel – including BNP Paribas’ Peter Nowell and HSBC’s Chris Johnson – gave an…
OTC Reform Causing ‘Big Data’ Challenge
By Ciaran Henry, US country manager for Rule Financial In 30 years the OTC derivatives landscape has not faced such sweeping changes as it does today. Dodd-Frank, EMIR and the Volcker Rule are all new regulations in the capital markets devised to protect US and European consumers from ‘bailing out the banks’ again. As these…
Markit Boosts Index Business Scalability with XSP CA Platform Upgrade
Markit’s renewal and extension of its corporate actions processing platform deal with XSP will allow it to expand its operations to serve more customers and make more calculations while maintaining accuracy and timeliness. As part of the renewal, Markit has added XSP’s Headline Indices functionality to the XSP v5 platform it operates in-house. According to…