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Woodbine Associates Welcomes Equity Market Analyst
Woodbine Associates is pleased to welcome Michael Kurzrok in the role of Director. Mr. Kurzrok will focus on analysis of strategic, business, regulatory, market structure and technology issues and how these influences impact firms in the global equity markets. He also will undertake consulting engagements for Woodbine Associates’ clients. The bulk of Mr. Kurzrok’s financial…
Interactive Data Reports Second-Quarter 2011 Results
Interactive Data Corporation today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. Interactive Data’s second-quarter 2011 revenue increased 11.5% to $216.3 million from $194.0 million in the second quarter of 2010. This marks the highest quarterly revenue in the Company’s history. Second-quarter 2011 revenue was reduced by $0.3 million due to…
Gamma Finance Appoints Director of Advisory Business
Gamma Finance, the leading provider of solutions-based services for secondary market transactions in illiquid hedge fund assets, has appointed Benjamin Keefe as director of its new Investment Advisory business. This additional business line provides a complementary range of services and solutions to Gamma Finance’s buy-side and sell-side clients. Prior to joining Gamma Finance, Benjamin was…
Credit-Adjusted Data on S&P Rated Banks Added to Global Credit Portal
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies today announced the launch of CreditStats Direct for Financial Institutions, a powerful new data and analytics application that provides direct access to credit-adjusted financial data with up to 3-years history for banks rated by S&P. The addition of this credit analysis tool allows market participants to gain in-depth insight into…
Talend Closes First Half of 2011 with Significant Growth and Increased Industry Recognition
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced the results of its first half of 2011. Within the first six months of the year, the company experienced significant success with record growth as a result of new customer deals and expansion within the existing customer base. “When we entered 2011 we had identified specific…
CECA Extends Use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), the National Association of Spanish Savings Banks, has extended its use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics, derivatives pricing models used by international financial institutions for derivatives pricing and structuring, risk management, model validation and benchmarking. CECA’s risk department will now use FastVal Analytics to help it efficiently and accurately…
FSA Enters Into an Agreement to Sell TRS to the London Stock Exchange
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has entered into a conditional agreement to sell its Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) known as the Transaction Reporting System (TRS) to the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for £15m. The TRS is an ARM established in the UK market for the reporting of transactions in regulated instruments by firms to the…
First Derivatives Launches Hosted Delta Data Factory Service for Reference Data
First Derivatives, a leading provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets industry, this morning announces the launch of Delta Data Factory, a new service within its Delta suite of data, trading and risk applications and services. Delta Data Factory is a hosted data management service that provides targeted reference data processing as…
Fed’s Cease and Desist Order for RBS Highlights the Data Issues Underlying its AML and Risk Management Practices
The issuance of a joint consent cease and desist order by the US Federal Reserve Board and a number of other state regulators last week for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group’s New York, Illinois and Connecticut branches indicates some of the data issues underlying its risk management and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance functions. The…
IASB Kicks off Public Consultation About Future Focus of IFRS Work Plan
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has asked the industry to provide feedback about its future priorities, as Europe pauses before implementing fair value standards and the standard body awaits a decision from the US about adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). IASB chairman Hans Hoogervorst stated this week that the consultation comes “at…