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Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has Boosted its Asset Allocation Team
A graduate of ESC Nantes/Audencia, 33 years, Thomas Vlieghe’s first position in 2003 was at AGF Asset Management where he worked as an assistant equity fund manager. In 2004, he joined Bryan, Garnier & Co as a broker on European stocks. He then moved to Allianz Global Investors in 2005 where he spent 6 years…
ISDA Announces Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository Selection
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) announced today that the ISDA Commodities Steering Committee has chosen Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Deriv/SERV and EFETnet to partner with the Committee on the next stage of development of the Commodity Derivatives Trade Repository. This selection is the result of a public Request for Proposals…
RBC Dexia Appoints New Director in Hong Kong
RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Alessandro Silvestro to the role of Director of Business Development for Asia. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Silvestro will be responsible for driving RBC Dexia’s growth strategy in the region for both onshore and offshore mandates. He will report to Brent Reuter, Managing Director of Hong Kong and Head…
DST Global Solutions’ Anova Platform Now Available as a Hosted Service
DST Global Solutions, a market-leading provider of systems and services to the investment management industry, today announced that Anova, its award-winning middle office investment analytics platform, is now available as a hosted service to investment and wealth management firms globally. The Anova hosted service is provided by DST Global Solutions’ parent company DST Systems, which…
SimCorp Releases IFRS 9 Guide for Investment Firms
SimCorp, a leading provider of highly specialised software and expertise for the investment industry, announced today its guide to the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9. The guide examines how investment firms can benefit from new measurement models and how they can leverage their IT platform to ensure compliance with the new regulation. The IFRS…
Standard & Poor’s VRS and Sapient Global Markets Alliance
Sapient Global Markets and Standard and Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies (S&P VRS) have today announced a formal alliance to provide clients with in-depth valuation and analysis of structured finance securities including asset- and mortgage-backed securities (ABS/MBS), and covered bonds. The agreement will address the need for transparency and risk management for large volume portfolios,…
ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software Launches Data Management Solution
ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced the launch of Eze Data Management, a highly extensible, multi-asset class data repository that provides the tools for data enrichment, maintenance of “golden copy” reference data, as well as aggregation, tracking and reporting on performance and risk data. The new product seamlessly integrates with ConvergEx’s award-winning Eze…
AWD Connects Email Capture and BPM
With AWD, the industry-leading business process management (BPM) solution from DST Technologies, companies can now automatically capture incoming email and initiate processing without custom code. Unlike alternative BPM solutions, AWD delivers out-of-the-box integration for inbound email. AWD can identify email by subject, parse data from within the message, determine the work required, prioritise and route…
Asset Control to Deliver Enriched Price Construction, Curves Leveraging FINCAD’s Analytics Library
Asset Control, the world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, is partnering with FINCAD to offer mutual customers enhanced valuation and analytics for fixed income, derivatives and curves firm-wide through integration between Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform and FINCAD’s industry leading financial analytical library. Accurate and consistent financial valuation analytics alongside prices are…
Reval’s Okochi and Trozzo Highlight Valuations and Data Impacts of US Swaps Market Reforms
It seems everyone’s talking about the data impacts of the Dodd Frank reforms at the moment. Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) hosted a public roundtable on the subject of the new recordkeeping requirements and related standards efforts, and derivatives risk and valuations solution provider Reval also hosted its own webinar on the…