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CQG Integrates with FOW TRADEdata Xymbology
FOW TRADEdata announced today the integration of CQG instrument codes into its Xymbology product for the futures and options market. Xymbology is an identifier mapping service for exchange-traded futures and options contracts. CQG is a provider of integrated order execution, charting, and analytics for global, electronically traded futures markets. CQG offers real-time and historical data…
Strategic Acquisitions, Cost Cutting and Corporate Actions Top the Bill at Sibos
Last week’s annual Swift user conference in Amsterdam saw the messaging network operator focus on a range of items central to its new 2015 strategy (see our video interview with Swift’s managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics Arun Aggarwal on the subject earlier this year), including cost saving opportunities, strategic acquisitions of…
Adam Brill Joins XSP as Business Analyst
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced today that Adam Brill has joined the Company as Business Analyst. Based in New York, Brill will be responsible for supporting the growing client base for the XSP® Corporate Actions software platform. This appointment is in response to XSP’s expanding Professional Services offering and…
Royal Bank of Scotland Selects SmartCo for Centralized Securities Reference and Price Data Management
SmartCo, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management software solutions for the financial industry, is pleased to announce that the Royal Bank of Scotland Global Banking & Markets (GBM) has gone live with its innovative data management software solution, SmartCo DataHub. GBM intends to use SmartCo DataHub to centralize and manage all the security reference…
Pricing Partners Strengthens its Commodity Module with Automatic Seasonality Computation
Pricing Partners, the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models for valuations of derivatives and structured products, announced today that its commodity pricing library, Price-it, now contains automatic detection of seasonality in commodity module. Commodity futures prices especially on energy exhibit strong seasonality. The Pricing Partners library now automatically detects and calculates…
DataArt Announces its Role in Completing Development for XSP
DataArt, a high-end software development company headquartered in New York with R&D centers in Eastern Europe today announced it has completed enhancements for XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions software. The XSP v5 platform is the state-of-the-art solution from XSP developed to automate each step in the processing of global Corporate Actions….
Royal Bank of Scotland Centralises Reference Data Using SmartCo DataHub
Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Banking & Markets (GBM) group has gone live with SmartCo’s DataHub enterprise data management platform. GBM is using the system to centralise and manage all the security reference data and end-of-day pricing, creating a hub that will serve all bank departments. GBM selected DataHub after a period of extensive market…
StatPro Discovers Solution to the Liquidity Risk Paradox
StatPro Group, a leading provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global asset management industry, announces a major breakthrough in its risk measurement research. StatPro has designed an innovative approach to measuring market liquidity risk that does not rely only on observed bid, ask and volumes. Instead, factors such as market capitalisation,…
DClear Reference Data Services Gain Significant Momentum a Year on From their Launch
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced significant progress for its DClear business, a year after its launch. With reference data on the agenda again at this year’s Sibos conference, a utility service model providing clean, consistent reference data as a service has come to the fore as the industry wrestles with data…
Cadis Solvency II Risk Platform Answer to Group-Wide Compliance
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced its Solvency II risk platform. The platform will provide insurers with the confidence of complete data governance lineage and the level of transparency, visibility and data quality being demanded by tough regulator scrutiny. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “The capital adequacy requirement of Solvency II is the…