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Telekurs Financial Partners with Bondweb Malaysia for Fair Value Pricing
Telekurs Financial has signed an agreement with Bondweb Malaysia, the country’s only current bond pricing agency, to integrate Bondweb’s fair value prices into Telekurs’ Valordata Feed (VDF) and Intraday Pricing Service (IPS). Bondweb Malaysia has been offering fair values for approximately 2,000 fixed income bonds traded in ringgit since 2005.The deal with the Malaysian agency…
US Fed and SEC to Draw up Agreement on Data Sharing
The US Federal Reserve and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) are discussing an agreement to revamp the regulation of the US financial markets, which could include drawing up data sharing agreements between the two bodies. The agreement, which is rumoured to be announced this week, is intended to fill gaps in regulatory oversight and increase cooperation…
The heat is on
Tough times lie ahead for the market, but technology and better management of data will continue to be valuable differentiators, delegates to this year’s Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) Technology Management Conference were told. Although the securities industry has recently experienced billion dollar write-downs, serious reductions in headcount and widespread cost cutting, firms’…
Two Client Wins, a Partnership Agreement and an Upgrade for Eagle
It has been a busy couple of months for Eagle Investment Systems. Not only has the vendor released Version 9 of its data management, investment accounting and performance measurement suite, it has also signed a deal with Sun Microsystems to allow Access to be available via Sun Solaris 10 OS. It has also completed two…
S&P and SuperDerivatives Partner to Create Largest Valuations Portal
Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, a global provider of independent securities evaluations and derivatives specialist SuperDerivatives have established a sales and marketing alliance to target the fixed income securities and OTC and exchange-traded derivatives market. The resulting combined offering represents the largest independent valuation portal in terms of both geographic and asset class coverage. The…
Interactive Data Makes Pricing Data Available Through ValueLink’s PriceValidation Service
Interactive Data Corporation(IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related services, is making data from its Pricing and Reference Data business available through ValueLink’s PriceValidation service, the company is announcing on booth # 1405. Through PriceValidation, ValueLink acts as a service facilitator taking raw data from customers’ chosen data vendors and subjecting…
Eaton Vance Selects Eagle to Build Investment Systems Data Warehouse
Boston-based investment management firm Eaton Vance has implemented Eagle Investment Systems’ data management and mutual fund performance solution in order to build an investment systems data warehouse. The selection of Eagle’s offering is to support the investment manager’s plans to outsource the servicing of its institutional business to Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)…
Markit Offers Free Access to RED for Smaller CDS Firms to Encourage Broader Buy Side Buy In
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has released a new license for its Reference Entity Database (RED) for smaller buy side firms. Under the terms of the new license, asset managers with low credit default swap (CDS) trading volumes that use DTCC Deriv/SERV for trade confirmation will gain free access to…
EDM Releases Progress Update on Faulty Data Pilot and Details of Semantic Repository Project
It has been a busy month for the EDM Council, not only has it released an interim report with IBM on the findings of its project to measure the performance implications of missing or faulty data on key functions within financial institutions, it has also released details of plans for a new online semantic repository….
Markit Launches Counterparty/Compliance Documentation Library
Data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing vendor Markit has launched a new documentation library that allows financial institutions to post, manage and share compliance, counterparty credit and regulatory documents securely. Called Markit Document Exchange, the new service automates KYC, anti-money laundering and compliance certification processes in order to reduce risk and lower operational…