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UK FSA Pledges Commitment to Support Vendor Community in Data Space
There may be troubles ahead for the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) with the impending departure of current CEO Hector Sants in the summer, but, in the meantime, the regulator has pledged to support the data vendor community in adapting to the new regulatory order. To this end, the regulator is strengthening its efforts around…
SuperDerivatives Boosts Global Strategic Sales Group
SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark, has strengthened its global strategic sales team with the appointment of financial systems and derivatives expert David Collins. Collins joins SD as European head of strategic sales, reporting to Zohar Hod, vice president of strategic sales and business development, and will draw on his extensive expertise in the implementation of…
Korea Bond Pricing to Market Interactive Data’s Bond Evaluations
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with Korea Bond Pricing (KBP), an agency appointed by the Korean government to provide valuations for fixed income and derivative instruments to the Korean market. KBP will provide local…
CetrelSecurities and Aim Software Extend Partnership to Delivery of Cleansed Reference Data
Last year, data management solution provider Aim Software signed a partnership with Luxembourg-based, application service provider (ASP) specialist CetrelSecurities, which the vendors have now extended to the provision of cleansed reference data. The vendors are now working together to provide the Luxembourg market with an ASP platform based on the Gain data management platform, says…
Counterparty Risk Managers Need Greater Access to Credit Risk Data Within Buy Side Firms, Says Fitch Solutions’ Di Giambattista
There is a clear need within the counterparty risk manager community for more tools and better access to data related to credit risk analytics, according to Jonathan Di Giambattista, managing director of risk and performance analytics at Fitch Solutions. Di Giambattista bases his judgement on a recent survey of 85 counterparty risk managers in buy…
SimCorp Proves Readiness to Process Swift ISO 20022 MX Messages
Swift and SimCorp have together successfully completed a proof of concept, which demonstrates that SimCorp Dimension, SimCorp’s solution for investment management businesses, can accept, process and transmit Swift ISO 20022 MX messages. MX messages are increasingly used in the securities industry, with adoption extending beyond Europe to Asia and the US. MX messages offer more…
London Stock Exchange Announces Partnership with FactSet to Deliver Reference Data through UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange announced today that it has commenced a joint venture with FactSet Research Systems. The partnership means that the Exchange will deliver FactSet’s reference data via UnaVista, a web-based platform that provides validation, matching and reconciliation solutions. Firms will now be able to receive FactSet’s issue-to-issuer linkage data and parent-subsidiary relationship data…
BNY Mellon’s Richmond Talks up Recent Investment in Valuations Capabilities and Importance of Data Centralisation
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has invested in its client and regulatory reporting systems as a result of valuation and regulatory changes such as FAS 157 and FAS 132R-1, explains Chris Richmond, managing director of global product accounting for the fund administrator, to Reference Data Review. This has involved a significant investment in automating the upload of…
CME Group Opts for Fitch Solutions and CMA Pricing Solutions for Clearing Operations
As part of its endeavour to establish itself as a clearing counterparty (CCP) in the OTC derivatives market, CME Group has this month selected two pricing solutions to support its CCP’s credit default swap (CDS) pricing and intraday risk management services: CMA’s DataVision and Fitch Solutions’ CDS Pricing Service. Anna Mazzone, vice president of product…
FIRMS’ Valuation & Risk Strategies Group Launches Valuations Transparency Initiative
Following the restructuring of the Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS) unit to combine its securities evaluations, valuations services and market research teams into one group last month, the Standard & Poor’s owned analytics and research group has launched a new transparency initiative for fixed income valuations. The vendor is now offering the assumptions data…