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Fitch Solutions Extends its Use of LEIs and Monitors Global Adoption
Fitch Solutions has extended its adoption of pre-Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) by adding the codes to unrated entities. The company has been adding pre-LEI codes to Fitch rated issuers and debt issues since early this year and is making all its LEI data available on the Fitch Ratings website and in its data feed products,…
Leveraging In-Memory for Real-Time MapReduce Analytics
See the video below on how in-memory technology from ScaleOut Software can boost MapReduce 40x for financial applications, such as real-time risk analytics.
SuperDerivatives Combines Market Data and Calculation Engine to Deliver Credit Value Adjustment Solution
SuperDerivatives has completed development of a credit value adjustment (CVA) solution for OTC derivatives portfolios and incorporated it into its eValueX valuation service, CorporeX corporate risk and compliance system, and SDX front-office system. Results of CVA calculations can be received by SuperDerivatives’ users as Excel or XML files that can be integrated back into their…
SIX Financial Information Takes Solvency II Compliance Solution to Market
SIX Financial Information has brought together the reference data requirements of Solvency II to deliver a compliance service that is available immediately and is being implemented with initial insurance clients ahead of take-up among asset managers. The service uses reference data already owned by SIX Financial Information as well as some new attributes. These include…
Infront Targets Thomson Reuters 3000 Xtra Customers with Free Trial Offer for Infront Market Data and Trading Service
Infront, the leading provider of real-time market data, news and analytics, is offering a free trial of its latest Infront market data and trading platform to current clients of Thomson Reuters’ 3000 Xtra premium desktop service, which is being withdrawn from the market on December 31, 2013. The Infront platform caters to those users who…
OpenGamma Includes Redis In-Memory Technology in Margining Platform
OpenGamma has the Redis in-memory data management technology with its own analytics and risk engine to create a margining platform offering. The new platform is designed to support fast and precise calculations, allowing clearing members to meet the initial margin calculation requirements of central counterparties on OTC swap transactions. OpenGamma developed the new margining platform…
Corvil Develops CorvilNet Technology Stack to Deliver Real-Time Operational Risk and Compliance Monitoring
The real-time operational risk and compliance monitoring solution for electronic trading that was recently released by Corvil builds on the company’s original network monitoring platform, providing visibility into a taller technology stack and allowing users to see the status not only of IT systems, but also the business that resides on them. The solution plays…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: The CDO Complex
Quietly, amid our industry’s X-Factor-like preoccupation with the comings and goings at NYSE Technologies (Robson, Roche, Wombat, NYFIX – all going), there have been some equally significant human capital movements within the reference and enterprise data space. Most notably, perhaps, is that Barclays has named a group chief data officer. And this is no ordinary…
SIX Financial Information Adds Bloomberg Global Identifiers to Data Feeds
SIX Financial Information has incorporated Bloomberg Global Identifiers (BBGIDs) into its Valordata Feed and plans to do the same for its Market Data Feed, a development that adds Bloomberg Open Symbology to more than 30 security identification schemes already supported by the company. BBGIDs are available immediately and at no extra cost within the Valordata…
Xenomorph Extends Reach of TimeScape into Commercial Banking Sector
Xenomorph has extended the reach of its capital markets data management and analytics solution TimeScape into the institutional and commercial banking sector through an arrangement with client engagement platform provider i2i Logic. i2i Logic, a start-up company, is using the cloud version of Xenomorph’s TimeScape, which runs in the Windows Azure cloud, and Xenomorph’s recent…