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GoldenSource Releases Market Data Solution for End-to-end Data Transparency
The ability of risk managers to adapt to changing regulatory environments and achieve more up to date and accessible views of immediate risk positions, has long been held back by the siloed treatment of market and reference data. Today at FIMA NY, GoldenSource announced the release of the GoldenSource Market Data Solution (GSMDS) allowing chief…
Maples Finance Adopts Paladyne’s Industry-Standard Technology Platform
Paladyne Systems, a solutions provider to the global hedge fund industry, today announced that Maples Finance, an independent global fund services provider with US$30 billion in assets under administration, has successfully implemented the Paladyne product suite as its middle and back office solution. Maples Finance licensed Paladyne’s Application Service Provider (ASP) platform, a comprehensive software,…
Regulation is Driving Force Behind Data Management Change, Agree EDM Council’s Atkin and JWG’s Di Giammarino
They may differ in their opinions in how to go about effecting change, but EDM Council’s managing director Mike Atkin and JWG’s CEO PJ Di Giammarino agreed that the regulatory environment is forcing firms to re-evaluate their data management systems. Both Atkin and Di Giammarino told delegates to TSAM in London earlier this week that…
Landesbank Berlin Investment Goes Live with DVS Fund Warehouse
Princeton Financial Systems (PFS), a solution provider to the global investment industry, reports a successful project completion. The Landesbank Berlin (LBB) and the Landesbank Berlin Investment (LBB-INVEST) have chosen the fund-specific data management platform DVS Fund Warehouse (DVS) together with PFS’ reporting solution DVS Publisher Suite for their fund reporting. They went live with both…
Mizuho’s Tweddle Stresses Importance of Data Ownership for Improvement in Quality
Simon Tweddle, director of risk management at Mizuho International, is a firm believer in assigning data ownership in order to effectively monitor data quality across a financial institution. Speaking at last week’s Thomson Reuters event in London, Tweddle explained that Mizuho has recently put the management of its global reference and market data back on…
Tullett Prebon’s Humphrey Discusses Details Behind OTC Val Acquisition
Last week, interdealer brokerage firm Tullett Prebon announced it had entered into an acquisition agreement for an undisclosed amount with derivatives valuation services provider OTC Valuations (commonly known as OTC Val). Paul Humphrey, CEO of Tullett Prebon’s Electronic Broking and Information division, explains to Reference Data Review that the acquisition is all part of the firm’s…
Huge Number of Ad Hoc Regulatory Requests is Adding to the Data Challenge, Says BarCap’s Bhattacharjee
Financial services firms are being faced with a huge number of on the hoof ad hoc reporting requirements from the regulatory community and this is putting significant pressure on their data infrastructures, said Kris Bhattacharjee, global head of regulatory policy and reporting at Barclays Capital. He explained to attendees to Thomson Reuters’ roundtable earlier this…
Kinetic Partners Recruits Szylar from RBS, Focuses on Modular Approach to Enterprise Risk Management
Kinetic Partners has added a new face to its team, ex-RBS Portfolio Risk Services MD Christian Szylar, to lead the vendor’s efforts in the risk modelling and valuations space. The vendor has been stepping up its approach to the market by touting its modular approach to risk management as a more practical way to meet…
Innovation Beats Regulation
By Penny Davenport, managing director, and Lansing Gatrell, director, Markit Document Exchange, Markit Group 2010 has carried on where 2009 left off with the spectre of regulation hanging over the financial markets. At the same time, government continues to get bigger, in education and healthcare as well as financial markets, in both the United States…
SIFMA Carries Federal Agency Bond Prices for Free on investinginbonds.com
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association announced that it now carries price data for approximately 25,000 federal agency bonds on its investinginbonds.com website. The new data is available via a feed from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) following an expansion of its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) to include debt issued by…