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StatPro Appoints RiskMetrics Man as Sales Director
StatPro Group plc, a global provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for investment professionals, has appointed Ruggero Frisina as European Sales Director. Commenting on the appointment, CEO of StatPro Group plc Justin Wheatley said: “With the launch of StatPro Seven this year and that of Revolution in 2011, we wanted to bolster our…
CSB Faces Lobbying on Cusip ID Fees from Three US Industry Associations
Reflecting the general desire within the user community for lower costs and easier access to instrument identifiers, this week, three US-based industry associations have sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asking the regulator to step in and limit the fees that Standard & Poor’s’ Cusip Service Bureau (CSB) charges for its…
Euroclear’s de Pauw Talks up Corporate Actions Standards, T2S’ Ongoing Impact
International central securities depository (ICSD) Euroclear has been spending a lot of time recently consulting with its user groups about market best practices and standards and how it can improve its servicing of the corporate actions space, according to Edwin de Pauw, director of product management at the ICSD and CSD. This is only natural…
Fidelity ActionsXchange Captures Corporate Actions Faster/Closer to Source
Fidelity ActionsXchange, a Fidelity Investments company and leading provider of global corporate actions and related security events, today introduced an enhanced version of its ActionService platform, which automates and customizes the delivery of corporate actions, such as stock splits and corporate restructurings, on more than 2.5 million securities to some of the world’s largest financial…
CECA Extends Use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics for Valuing Complex Derivatives
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), the National Association of Spanish Savings Banks, is expanding its use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics, a comprehensive suite of derivatives pricing models used by international financial institutions for derivatives pricing and structuring, risk management, model validation and benchmarking. The extended use of FastVal will help the association’s financial…
Reference Data Review on Securities Matching from the Sibos 2010 Opening Plenary
One of Swift’s biggest pushes for the securities sector as part of its new 2015 strategy is in the securities matching services space. During the Sibos 2010 opening plenary, Swift played the following video, demonstrating industry perspectives on this initiative. Reference Data Review elaborated on the utility versus competitive approach. Video of 16535038
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Systems
We’ve evolved: Spreadsheets are no longer the primary method for managing valuations pricing! So how are financial institutions managing pricing validation? Video 4 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 5 minutes 39 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Valuations Frequency
A look at the current frequency of valuing assets and why there is a trend toward increased frequency and a move towards intraday valuations. Video 3 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 6 minutes 21 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Vendor Requirements
What do institutions want from their vendors, and what do they think about how they are stacking up? A discussion of the survey scores, with focus on data quality and transparency. Video 2 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 7 minutes 33 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Drivers
Intro to the event and valuations performance benchmarking by moderator Angela Wilbraham, A-Team’s CEO, introduction to our panellists, and discussion about the drivers for valuations data spend that our buy-side institutions and securities services firms’ survey participants are responding to. In particular, a focus on the types of regulations and the type of impact they…