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S&P Capital IQ Signs UBRD to CreditPro
S&P Capital IQ Risk Solutions today announced a deal to provide CreditPro to Russian bank, Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UBRD). The agreement allows UBRD to access S&P ratings, rating migrations, defaults and recovery database on more than 15,000 issuers, 130,000 securities, 150,000 structured finance tranches, and 140 sovereigns. CreditPro enables credit professionals to…
RBC Dexia Extends Mandate with Comgest to Provide KIID Services
RBC Dexia Investor Services today announced that it has won a new mandate from Comgest, the independent international asset management group, to provide Key Investor Information Document (KIID) services to the Dublin domiciled umbrella, Comgest Growth Fund. RBC Dexia provides a variety of services to Comgest, including fund accounting, custody and financial reporting. The KIID…
Virginie’s Blog – Regulatory Change and LEI Discussions Dominate at DMRAV (Not to Mention the G20 Meeting)
As I previously predicted, the spectre of incoming regulation and the standards developments around a new legal entity identifier (LEI) were popular topics for discussion at yesterday’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in London. Panellists and delegates alike discussed the changing dynamics within the data management universe that have meant much…
Broadridge Canada Announces BR Mobile for Financial Advisors
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced the availability of the BR Mobile solution for financial advisors in Canada, as a new product offering for Canadian securities dealers using Broadridge’s Dataphile solution set. This new solution from Broadridge creates a real-time mobile extension of the ProPhile advisor desktop, allowing advisors using the most popular mobile devices to…
Interactive Data and FINRA Provide Transparency into Structured Securities Market
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics, and related solutions, today announced that Interactive Data and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have developed a set of reports designed to provide transparency into market activity related to U.S. structured securities on a daily basis. The reports consist of the U.S. Structured…
Stuart Guinness to join Credit Suisse as Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific
Credit Suisse announced today Stuart Guinness will join Credit Suisse as a Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Products, Asia Pacific in the Asset Management Division, effective November 3, 2011. He will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Neil Harvey, Head of Asia Pacific and Head of Emerging Markets globally and Sudip Thakor,…
Sybase’s Grant Highlights the Need for More Data Creation at Source
Rather than relying on data from external sources, firms should instead aim to create it from source documents, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development director for financial services at risk management solution vendor Sybase, during this afternoon’s keynote speech. Speaking to attendees at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London,…
Collaboration is Key to Resolving Data Issues Raised by Regulation
Financial institutions must collaborate to meet incoming regulatory requirements that challenge enterprise data management (EDM), according to a panel of industry experts assessing the impact of regulations on data management at today’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations Conference in London. Chairing the panel, Reference Data Review set the scene of incoming regulations requiring…
On Demand Analytics Have Become Increasingly Important, Says Sybase’s Grant
Regulatory and business pressures are driving firms to invest in risk management functionality such as on demand analytics capabilities, said Stuart Grant, EMEA business development manager for financial services at Sybase, during his keynote speech at A-Team Group’s Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations conference in London. There has been a serious increase in…
SCOR Global Investments Selects Cadis to Optimise Operational Efficiency
SCOR Global Investments (SGI), the investment management company of the SCOR Group, a global reinsurance company headquartered in Paris, has selected Cadis to implement its data management strategy. SCOR’s investment portfolio amounted to EUR 12.1 billion in June 2011. Cadis will be taking in data from multiple sources including Bloomberg, Interactive Data and EFA-European Fund…