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SmartCo Goes Live at National Bank Financial Group in Canada
SmartCo, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management software solutions for the financial industry, is delighted to announce that National Bank Financial Group of Canada has gone live with its innovative data management software solution, SmartCo DataHub. Following a market and competitor review SmartCo’s data management platform has been selected by National Bank Financial…
OFI Asset Management Selects Pricing Partners for its Structured Products Revaluations
Pricing Partners, the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models for valuations of derivatives and structured products, announced today to provide independent revaluations to OFI Asset Management for its interest rates, credit and equity structured products. OFI Asset Management develops and provides tailored investment solutions to its clients. The group operates over…
Markit Appoints Managing Director of Equities And Index Operations
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced the appointment of Paul Grimes as Managing Director of Equities and Index Operations. Grimes will be responsible for Markit’s equity and fixed income index operations and will also co-head Markit’s dividend forecast, index management and exchange traded fund (ETF) services, in partnership with Bernie Thurston,…
Wall Street Horizon Launches Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM), First Service Delivering Automated, Dividend Data for Low-Latency Electronic Traders
Wall Street Horizon today announced the public launch of its Real Time Dividends Monitor (RDM) service, which uses proprietary algorithms to “read” wire-service dividend announcements and parse announcement data into structured fields usable by computerized processing systems. RDM is the first automated comprehensive source of information on dividend announcements available to the investment community. The…
NYSE Euronext Aims to Blaze Symbology Trail with Adoption of Bloomberg Bsym Codes
NYSE Euronext’s adoption of Bloomberg’s open-source security identifiers is aimed at setting the pace for industry change within the symbology segment, in the hopes of broadening client choice and reducing customer cost. The exchange operator, which provides a range of data feed services, is first adding the Bloomberg Open Symbology (Bsym) codes to its OpenBook…
Cosmos Releases Security and Reference Master
Cosmos Technologies, the product development arm of Indus Valley Partners, today announced general availability of Cosmos Security Master, a fully customizable, comprehensive security data management solution designed to centrally store and efficiently manage critical security information in a complex multi-fund, multi-strategy, multi-counterparty, multi-asset environment. Cosmos Security Master is the only commercial solution built from the…
Russell Investments And Interactive Data Introduce Fair Value Adjusted Index Information For Select Russell Global Indices
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business will provide its Fair Value Information Service (FVIS) for international equities to Russell Investments for use in providing fair value adjusted information on Russell’s global equity indices. This information is designed to help…
Mackie Research Capital Goes Live on SunGard’s Fame for Pricing Data and Analytics
Mackie Research Capital, one of Canada’s largest independent full service investment firms, has implemented SunGard’s Fame for pricing data and analytics to help support the firm’s investment, research and trading strategies and activities. Providing live data and desktop tools for analysing investment results and opportunities, Fame helps Mackie Research Capital view and analyse accurate, aggregate…
Northern Trust Providing More Data for Fair Value, Adds New IFRS Valuation Toolkit
Custodian bank Northern Trust has been ramping up its efforts over the last 12 months to improve transparency for its end clients around fair valuation measurement, says Judson Baker, derivatives product manager at the bank. To this end, this week it has launched a new IFRS Valuation Toolkit aimed at providing a broad range of…
Markit Launches Liquidity Metrics for Fixed Income Markets
Markit, a global financial information services company, today announced it will provide liquidity metrics for all credit default swaps (CDS), evaluated bonds, loans and asset backed securities (ABS) included in its pricing services. The aim is to give market participants a comprehensive view on the liquidity of financial assets across the fixed income markets. The…