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Increased Timeliness and Complexity Have Put Valuations Teams Under Pressure, Says JPMorgan’s Guibout
The risk data requirements of clients and regulators have resulted in an increase in the need for intraday pricing and much more data around a price, explained Marcel Guibout, executive director of the fund accounting product in EMEA for JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services, to attendees to last week’s SIX Telekurs valuations roadshow in London. This…
Avox and GoldTier Partner on Enhanced ‘Know Your Customer’ System
Avox, a supplier of legal entity data on financial entities globally, announced today that it has partnered with GoldTier, a compliance software provider, to create an enhanced system to help the financial industry comply with increasingly strict regulatory “Know Your Customer” (KYC) requirements. GoldTier is a leading provider to financial firms of software for onboarding…
Thomson Reuters Poaches Credit Suisse’s Hinds as its New Global Head of EDM to Lend User Cred to its Enterprise Ambitions
In line with its recent spate of hiring and reshuffles as it continues to integrate its business units, data giant Thomson Reuters has hired ex-programme manager for reference data at Credit Suisse Sally Hinds as its new global head of enterprise data management (EDM). It has been a year of change for Hinds, who was…
Cadis’ Simpson Elaborates on Recent Wins and Partnership Plans
EDM vendor Cadis has bagged 14 clients so far this year and is potentially set to sign three or four more before 2010 is out, according to CEO Daniel Simpson. The vendor, which has been touting its new Solvency II focused solution since its launch at Sibos last month, has also recently signed a deal…
What’s in a Name?
If there was one topic that dominated this week’s FIMA conference in London, it was the subject of legal entity identification. In line with the developments in the US around setting data standards at a regulatory level via the Office of Financial Research, Ken Price, CEO of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s Avox business,…
Panopticon Partners with GoldenSource to Extend Scope of Data Visualization for the Securities and Investment Management Industry
Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and time series data, today announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with GoldenSource, a data management provider for the securities and investment management industry, to provide a user-friendly reporting and data visualization layer to its data management systems. GoldenSource will…
FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan
FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its…
CSB Faces Lobbying on Cusip ID Fees from Three US Industry Associations
Reflecting the general desire within the user community for lower costs and easier access to instrument identifiers, this week, three US-based industry associations have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking the regulator to step in and limit the fees that Standard & Poor’s’ Cusip Service Bureau (CSB) charges for its…
Euroclear’s de Pauw Talks up Corporate Actions Standards, T2S’ Ongoing Impact
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has been spending a lot of time recently consulting with its user groups about market best practices and standards and how it can improve its servicing of the corporate actions space, according to Edwin de Pauw, director of product management at the ICSD and CSD. This is only natural…
Q&A: CSI’s Emilio Mercado on the Release of MDAL
Emilio Mercado is director, financial services product & strategy at the Collaborative Software Initiative. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to him about the recent release of MDAL – The Market Data Abstraction Layer – which has a goal of providing a single API to access market data across an enterprise, avoiding vendor lock-in. Q: Why is MDAL needed?…