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MIK Releases Enhanced SEC Master
MIK Fund Solutions, a leading provider of software solutions for hedge funds, today announced the release of a comprehensive and integrated security master solution for hedge funds and asset managers. The offering is designed as an integrated application for the tracking, reporting and processing of all security master terms and conditions and reporting attributes across…
The Principal Group Announces Further Expansion
The Principal Group, incorporating investment specialists Principal Investment Management and Border Asset Management, are pleased to announce that Adrian Williams, a former director of James Brearley & Sons, has joined the Group. Adrian brings an extensive experience in stockbroking and investment management. For the last twenty years he has worked in north Lancashire and Cumbria,…
A Few Risk and Data Infrastructure Related Highlights from Sibos
Apart from the announcement about the delay to Target2-Securities and (a bit) more clarity about Swift’s legal entity identification (LEI) project plans, this year Sibos yielded little in the way of hard post-trade focused news from the session floor. However, a fair bit of discussion was dedicated to the topic of the development of post-trade…
Pricing Partners Derivatives Independent Valuation Platform is Empowered with Analytics Function
Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today to implement a new function “Price-it Online Analytics” on its web based independent valuation platform Price-it Online. This new feature allows users of its online services to access its extensive financial library to achieve advanced transparency and independence….
S&P Fund Services Name Change
McGraw-Hill Financial, a segment of The McGraw-Hill Companies, today announced that it will market its unique combination of multi-asset-class data, benchmarks and analytics products under two master brands, S&P Capital IQ and S&P Indices. S&P Capital IQ will be the new master brand name for integrated desktop solutions, enterprise services and proprietary market, company and…
Mirabaud Expands London Investment Management Team
The London division of Mirabaud Asset Management has hired Paul Boughton from Neptune Investment Management and Andrew Blair from Skandia Investment Group to strengthen its UK team. Both will take up the role of joint sales and marketing director for the group, and the appointments form part of Mirabaud’s initiative to build a strong UK…
SIX Telekurs Launches New On-Demand Services for the Rapid Delivery of High Quality Data
SIX Telekurs has released new delivery services for the most up-to-date financial information from its comprehensive securities database, Valordata Feed. These innovations meet growing market needs for on-demand prices, reference data and corporate actions. VDF Pulse delivers push-delta updates of reference data and time-critical corporate actions every 15 minutes. These intervals reduce manual entry work…
Former Performance Measurement & Reporting Director at Russel Joins BI-SAM
BI-SAM, the company behind B-One, the global award winning data management, performance and risk attribution, GIPS composites administration and client reporting solution, announced the appointment of Frédéric Lalande as Deputy Managing Director. Frédéric has more than 20 years experience in asset management and more specifically in performance measurement and reporting. After ten years in Paris,…
IOSCO’s Commodities Market Proposals Highlight Need for Internationally Consistent Data Standards and Classifications
In addition to its recent trade repositories paper, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a paper urging regulators to consider bolstering their oversight of the commodities markets, which includes recommendations to introduce international data standards and classification schemes. As part of its series of proposals to improve post-trade surveillance methods, it suggests…
IRM Appoints José Morago as Director
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is pleased to announce the appointment of José Morago to its board of directors with immediate effect. José is the European Enterprise Risk Director for Aviva, where he is responsible for risk oversight, governance and capital management of Aviva’s European operations in 12 countries. He is also responsible for…