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Dion Integrates Numerix CrossAsset Analytics to Deliver Hosted OTC Pricing Service
Dion Global Solutions has partnered Numerix to move into OTC pricing, valuation and risk management with a hosted solution called dfferentia. The solution is the technology company’s first to be built from the ground up as a hosted solution and supports real-time pricing of foreign exchange and fixed income instruments with the promise of more…
Thomson Reuters Opens RICs to All for Trade Processing
Thomson Reuters is taking a step toward answering client calls for more open access to its Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) symbology. The company is making RICs available for use with non-real-time information in client and non-client financial institutions’ trade processing systems. Enterprise content chief Gerry Buggy, part of the team responsible for Thomson Reuters’ response…
Rimes and Bi-Sam Partner to Co-Develop Performance Solutions
Rimes Technologies and Bi-Sam have boosted their commitment to work together and deliver streamlined performance solutions for asset managers based on Rimes’ index and benchmark data management and Bi-Sam’s performance measurement and reporting functionality. The companies already have a joint interface to their solutions that is well used, but the new partnership will provide a…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Sifma Revisited
Last week I reported on how searing temperatures threatened to make the Sifma technology show in New York something of an assault course. In the end, though, dwindling punter numbers meant that the air-con actually performed as it’s supposed to, and we all remained cool – those of us who were already cool, that is…
G20 Approves FSB LEI Plans but Implementation Remains Controversial
This week’s decision by the G20 to endorse the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) recommendations on a global system of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) to counter systemic risk met a mixed response with potential parties to the development of the system glad of the G20’s go ahead, but still disagreeing on how the system’s infrastructure should…
Deutsche Bank Demonstrates Benefits of Data Visualisation
Visualisation techniques are essential to gaining insight into data, processes and systems, and could also answer the question of whether high frequency trading is good or bad for financial markets, said Kerr Hatrick, head of Deutsche Bank’s Quantitative Products One team for Europe and Asia at MathWorks’ Matlab Computational Finance Conference in London this week….
Brown Brothers Harriman Works with DTCC to Reduce Risk in Corporate Actions
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has gone live with DTCC’s standards-based corporate actions real-time messaging and expects the solution to provide both operational efficiencies and reduced operational risk. The solution is part of a multi-year corporate actions reengineering project at DTCC that will replace 60 legacy systems by 2015 with a single platform that is compliant…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: It’s Hot in New York
The New York Hilton is not best known for its air conditioning, and with temperatures threatening to hit 97 degrees Fahrenheit the second day of the Sifma Tech leaders conference promises to be challenging. It’s a busy and hot New York week. We kicked it off with some client meetings Monday, followed by the ubiquitous…
S&P Capital IQ Adds Credit Ratings and Frequent Delivery to Xpressfeed
S&P Capital IQ has added Standard & Poor’s credit ratings to its Xpressfeed enterprise data feed, and upgraded the feed delivery from daily and monthly to near real-time, bringing static data into the near real-time world. Xpressfeed including the credit ratings has been on beta test for a couple of months and went live this…
Netik’s Rebrand to CoreOne Underscores Repurposing of Data Management Assets
Netik, the data management company acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in 2008, has rebranded as CoreOne Technologies to reflect its new lease of life as a data creation, processing and distribution company with products based on Netik technologies and repurposed proprietary capital markets platforms. The brand change has been led by CoreOne…