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Interactive Data’s Haddad and Russell Indexes’ Caswell Talk up Fair Value Adjusted Index
At the end of March, Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business and Russell Investments teamed up to launch a new service aimed at providing fair value adjusted data on the latter’s global equity indices. The vendors are now exploring the expansion of the service and are consulting with customers about whether it should increase…
Markit Adds Structured Products to Portfolio Valuations Service
Markit, a global financial information services company, today announced it has extended the range of instruments covered by its Portfolio Valuations service to include structured products. The addition of structured products is a major milestone in Markit’s on-going programme to develop comprehensive, independent pricing analytics. Markit now provides valuations for a wide range of equity,…
For What it’s Worth…
Last week’s Xtrakter conference featured the opportunity for audience participation in the form of interactive voting – via remote control style touch pads in the main room and via delegates’ own mobile phones in the break out room. Now, as a journalist, I’m always keen on using a few stats to back up an argument…
Pricing Partners and MathFinance Combine Forces
Pricing Partners and MathFinance, a quantitative engineering vendor, with expertise in pricing and hedging foreign exchange and equity derivatives announced today that they will join forces to provide clients a even more global offering, combining software and quantitative consulting. Under the agreement, Pricing Partners and MathFinance will cross sell their respective offering in order to…
UnaVista Expands Volante Use With FIX and XML Messaging Support
After successful deployment of Volante Designer with SWIFT messaging support, the London Stock Exchange’s UnaVista has added FIX and XML support, Volante Technologies announced today. The implementation will facilitate expansion of the UnaVista matching, reconciliation and data integration engine into new business areas, including linking UnaVista to the Exchange’s FIX gateway, and supporting the implementation…
EDM Council Marks Milestones in Membership and Data Management Maturity
The Enterprise Data Management Council, a not-for-profit business forum created by the financial industry to address the issues and challenges associated with managing data content as a business and operational priority, today announced that it had reached a membership milestone of 50 member companies with the addition of nine new members in 2010. The rapid…
Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform Embraces Real-Time and Non-Real-Time Data
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a ‘joined up’ approach to enterprise data management, creating a platform framework that embraces both real-time and non-real-time data. The so-called Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform draws on the long-serving front-office Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) that supports real time data, the existing securities master product, Reuters Reference Data System (RRDS), and…
SGSS’s Rose Elaborates on Challenge of Determining Fair Valuations
Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) currently uses 13 data feed providers in order to price an average of 17,000 bonds on a daily basis, according to Olivier Rose, head of international projects data management for the firm. Although 80% of these valuations pose no problems for the securities services provider, 20% fall under the auspices…
Interactive Data Delivers Faster Corporate Actions
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced new enhancements to its global Corporate Actions Service. Interactive Data has introduced new technology and internal workflow to deliver comprehensive global corporate actions and related information throughout the day that can help firms with their trading strategies and more effectively…
Cadis Heads to Australia with BTIM Signing
Top Australian fund manager BT Investment Management (BTIM) has selected Cadis to build its centralised data management platform. Phil Stockwell, chief operating officer, BTIM said, “This is the first step to building a long term enterprise data management capability, enabling business growth, improving operational efficiency and providing quality data to support our investment teams.” The…