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Multifonds Strengthens Asian Team with Two New Hires
Multifonds, a leader in single-platform multi-jurisdictional investment fund software, has hired Chee Seng Lok as business development manager, and Andy Chua as regional product manager, bolstering its Asian division. Based in Singapore, they will be working together with Sandra Puah who heads the Multifonds professional services team in Asia. Chee Seng and Andy’s focus will…
SIX Telekurs & Eagle Investment Systems Deliver Enhanced Data Management Solutions
To showcase its newly enhanced interface with Eagle Investment Systems, SIX Telekurs is pleased to be a “Gold” sponsor of the 2011 Eagle Client Conference. Eagle’s Data Integration Services and SIX Telekurs have worked together to map the SIX Telekurs flagship Valordata Feed (VDF) to Eagle’s data management platform. Eagle is an advanced solution that…
Virginie’s Blog – FSB Zeros in on G-SIFI Data
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has finally issued its first list of globally systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) – a practice that it will reprise on an annual basis every November from now on – but what can these 29 firms expect in terms of new data requirements and when? The Cannes summit of G20…
Bravura Solutions Appoints Global Strategy, Risk and Planning Manager
Bravura Solutions (Bravura) – a leading global supplier of transfer agency and wealth management software applications and professional services – has appointed Mr Jason Wilby as its Global Strategy, Risk and Planning Manager. Based in the Sydney office and reporting to Rebecca Norton, Bravura’s Chief Financial Officer, the new role was created to enable effective…
Sapient Global Markets’ Orbon and Samborn Elaborate on the Planned ECB ABS Data Warehouse
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed last week that it has opted for Sapient Global Markets to build its new asset backed securities (ABS) warehouse for Europe. Kevin Samborn, who is lead architect on the warehouse project and is a consultant with Sapient Global Markets, and Randall Orbon, vice president with the vendor, explain the…
IOSCO and CPSS Consultation Sparks 32 Responses on OTC Derivatives Data Challenges (Part 2 of 2)
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) received 32 responses on the subject of data reporting, standards and aggregation for the OTC derivatives markets to its consultation. Following my summary of the first 16 responses earlier this week, here are the…
Thomson Reuters Integrates DataScope Pricing and Reference Data with Black Mountain Systems’ Everest
Thomson Reuters has just completed the integration work involved in allowing Black Mountain Systems’ portfolio management system Everest clients to access the data giant’s DataScope Select pricing and reference data. Brian Buzzelli, head of pricing and reference data for the Americas region at Thomson Reuters, explains the details of the customised data integration process, which…
Virginie’s Blog – Control
The recent woes at UBS with its own Nick Leeson/Jerome Kerviel (delete as desired) style rogue trader and this month’s MF Global bankruptcy investigation into its customer data practices have both highlighted an important aspect of data management: control. Whether it be data and system access concerns, or those related to the treatment of customer…
Sapient Global Markets to Construct European DataWarehouse
The Market Group announced on Tuesday the selection of Sapient Global Markets, part of Sapient, to design and build the European DataWarehouse (ED). In direct response to the European Central Bank’s (ECB) efforts to facilitate risk assessment and improve transparency standards for Asset Backed Securities (ABS), ED will be the first European central data repository…
S&P Capital IQ Risk Solutions Signs Standard Bank South Africa
S&P Capital IQ Risk Solutions today signed an agreement to provide its default recovery data and Loss Given Default (LGD) model to the South African operations of Standard Bank. The agreement includes access to the LossStats recovery database and S&P Capital IQ Risk Solutions’ market-leading LGD modeling framework. S&P Capital IQ’s recovery data and modelling…