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New Implementation of Massive Grid Computing Empowers Pricing Partners’ Valuation Service
Pricing Partners (www.pricingpartners.com), the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models and analytics for derivatives and structured products, announced today that its impressive pricing tool, Price-it Valuation, is now empowered with massive grid computing to significantly accelerate the pricing speed for its flagship independent valuation service, Price-it® Online, delivered as a SaaS…
DST Global Solutions ups Ante in China with New Biz Dev Team, Yu to Head
In line with its global expansion plans and a spate of recent new hires, investment management solution provider DST Global Solutions has added a new business development team to its on the ground presence in China. The team will be headed by Nancy Yu, who was previously head of sales for DST Global Solutions’ China…
Swift Provides Rules for BIC Usage and Launches Awareness Campaign
As stated during Reference Data Review’s exclusive interview with Paolo Bernini, head of information products at Swift, last week, the industry owned cooperative has published a Bank Identifier Code (BIC) policy document to detail the rules for registration and usage of the codes. Swift has also launched a new awareness and information gathering campaign to…
RDR Poll This Month: Are Chief Data Officers the Norm?
Reference data issues may be rising up the industry agenda as a result of risk management and regulatory considerations, but how much of a priority does your firm place on the data function. There has previously been a lot of talk about the increase in the number of chief data officers (CDOs) in the market,…
The Centre for Research in Security Prices Selects XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform
XSP, a global provider of corporate actions software, announced today that the Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) at the Booth School of Business has selected the XSP v5 solution to automate its corporate actions processing. CRSP, a highly specialised provider of market data to hundreds of academic, commercial and government institutions for nearly…
NRI Partners with Numerix for Valuation Services
Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for the structuring, valuation and risk analysis of derivatives and structured products, today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement with Nomura Research Institute (NRI), Japan’s largest consulting and IT consulting firm, to provide valuation services for NRI’s Japanese client base. The partnership announcement marks a…
Swift’s Bernini Discusses Work Around Entity Identification and ECB’s Utility Proposals
Swift may have been rather cautious about its place in the business entity identification (BEI) space over recent years, but this is set to change, explains Paolo Bernini, head of information products at the industry owned cooperative. The financial messaging network provider is also not ruling out a possible future role in the European Central…
Swift’s New UK-based Recruit Aggarwal and Leibbrandt Talk up 2015 Potential Strategies
As indicated during Sibos week earlier this year, Swift is currently sizing up its future potential in the market as part of its new 2015 strategy discussions. Arun Aggarwal, Swift’s recently appointed managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, and Gottfried Leibbrandt, head of marketing, explained the four potential strategies that are being…
Video: Standardisation Panel & Debate at FIMA 2009
A panel discussion titled “The Drive to Standardisation” with a lively discussion among Mike Atkin, Managing Director of EDM Council, Francis Gross, Head of the External Statistics Division of the European Central Bank, and PJ Di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-IT. Video of 7797099
Pricing Partners to Present its Latest Work on Variable Annuities (GMxB) at the Paris Finance International Meeting
Pricing Partners announced today that Pierre Gauthier will be presenting the company’s latest work on Impact of Stochastic Interest Rates and Stochastic Volatility on Variable Annuities at the 7th Finance International Meeting in Paris on December 17 and 18, 2009 at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci. During his presentation, Gauthier, co-head of quantitative research…