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Thomson Reuters Adds Data Service to Support Solvency II Compliance
Thomson Reuters has pulled together the datasets required by insurance companies and asset managers to comply with the capital adequacy and disclosure obligations of Solvency II. The company’s Solvency II Data Service is available through the Thomson Reuters DataScope Select delivery platform and falls in line with company strategy to support clients with reference data…
Updated: Brendan Beith Leaving Role as European Ref Data MD at Interactive Data
Brendan Beith is leaving Interactive Data, where he has been managing director, pricing and reference data for Europe, Middle East and Africa for the past four years. Update: His role is being filled by Claudio Salinardi of Thomson Reuters. Claudio has spent the past 10 years at Thomson Reuters, most recently as managing director, fixed…
Nasdaq OMX Partners Corvil to Dive Deeper into Risk Management
Nasdaq OMX has teamed up with Corvil to enhance its TradeGuard risk management suite with RiskWrapper, a solution designed to provide additional protection against risk by monitoring trades at the network level and comparing them to those in the risk system to identify any abnormal activity and alert users to anomalies. RiskWrapper provides tight integration…
How Often Do You Screen Counterparties for Risk?
An interesting recent poll about compliance shows that 45% of firms screen their counterparties for risk on a daily or weekly basis. But a quite significant 39% still screen only annually. A remaining 10% screen monthly or quarterly, and 6% just one-time only at on-boarding. We can only believe that the frequency with which firms…
Brett Hodge Leaves Avox for Fenergo Asia Pac
Brett Hodge has left his position as manager Asia at DTCC’s Avox to head up sales for Fenergo in its newly opened Asia Pacific operation. Brett will be based on sunny Sydney, Australia. This follows earlier expansion by the Irish company into Boston and New York at the start of the year. Fenergo’s CEO Marc…
ICE Targets Strategic Growth through Acquisition of SuperDerivatives
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) plans to expand its market data, risk management and clearing operations through the acquisition of SuperDerivatives. The acquisition will be made through an all-cash transaction that puts a price tag of about $350 million on SuperDerivatives and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2014. The acquisition of SuperDerivatives follows…
Quincy Expands QED with Eurex Futures
Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of bond and equity futures from Eurex that will be distributed to data centres across the UK, New Jersey and Illinois. This is the first European data source to be added to the service, which already distributes data from eight US exchanges…
Talking Reference Data With Andrew Delaney: Back to School
Our five-year-old was stunned this morning when I told her she was starting school tomorrow, this after having spent weeks, nay months, in preparation – buying uniform, signing up for music lessons, selecting a lunchbox, choosing sandwich flavours and the like. Happily, she was thrilled with the news. I feel equally thrilled to be back…
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Big Data Users – According to Forbes
We’re still grappling with just how to apply Big Data to the real world of financial data management. Interestingly, this article by Forbes’ contributor Adrian Bridgwater (@ABridgwater) takes the well-known book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey and uses the seven-habit approach to apply to big data analytics for users, analysts,…
Exegy Extends MarketDataPeaks to Canadian Markets
Market data appliance provider Exegy has teamed up with TMX Datalinx, the information services division of TMX Group, and the Financial Information Forum (FIF) to deliver MarketDataPeaks.ca, a free web service providing real-time information about market data messaging rates across major Canadian exchanges. The service includes a daily chart that is designed to help market…