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Asset Control Builds Business Development with Return of Ian Cumberpatch
Ian Cumberpatch has rejoined Asset Control as associate director of business development EMEA. He was sales director for the Asia Pacific region at Asset Control from 2009 to 2012, before moving on to ICAP, where he was head of sales, financial institutions, in the My Treasury division. He left ICAP after a year, returning to…
CounterpartyLink Supports Client Data Off-Boarding to Improve Efficiency and Cut Costs
CounterpartyLink, a provider of global legal entity and counterparty data, has reversed the concept of client on-boarding with the offer of a client off-boarding service designed to help large financial institutions clean up their client databases, improve operational efficiency and reduce operating costs. The company has been working with a handful of clients to off-board…
A-Team Group Webinar Discusses the Trend Towards On-Demand and Real-Time Valuations
Regulators and participants in fixed income markets are calling for more frequent valuation updates, but an emerging trend towards real-time valuations will be neither universal nor useful for all securities. A webinar hosted last week by A-Team Group editor- in-chief Andrew Delaney, and joined by experts from Bloomberg, Interactive Data and S&P Capital IQ, discussed…
Markit Integrates Quartet FS ActivePivot to Deliver Real-Time Decision Support
Markit has integrated the Quartet FS ActivePivot in-memory aggregation engine into its analytics platform to offer real-time, pre-trade decision support to the front office. The addition of ActivePivot extends an initial in-house development of real-time capability to calculate pre-trade counterparty exposures on the Markit platform and will support real-time visualisation of risk calculations including risk…
Exchange Data International Extends its Commitment to Emerging and Frontier Markets
Exchange Data International (EDI) has extended its commitment to emerging and frontier markets with a new office in Agadir, Morocco. The office will not only increase the company’s capacity to translate corporate actions data from French and Arabic speaking countries, but also act as the base for EDI’s first foray into macroeconomic data. The Agadir…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Valuations (Part 3)
Pressing on with our investigation of how high-yield corporate credit asset classes can best be valued and following discussion around leveraged loans and collateralised loan obligations over the past couple of weeks, our focus this week is on high-yield corporate bonds. In the third of a series of three webinars – published by A-Team and…
Q&A: ScaleOut Software’s Dave Brinker on Scaling In-Memory for Big Data Financial Applications
In-memory technology is finding new applications in the financial markets and in big data processing. We found out how ScaleOut Software is addressing these needs from the company’s COO Dave Brinker. Q: How did ScaleOut Software get started – what’s in the name and what is its focus? A: ScaleOut Software was founded by William…
Change at the Top as Gross Exits SIX Group and Zeller is Elected Chairman
Thomas Gross, CEO of the Financial Information division at SIX Group, will leave the company tomorrow, Wednesday 5 June 2013, after four years in the role. Gross told a board meeting of his decision to leave the group last week. He will be replaced on an interim basis by Marcel Bättig, COO of the business….
Misys Combines Existing and New Technology Concepts to Deliver Risk Insight
Misys has developed the risk aggregation tool and interactive dashboard it introduced as a component of Misys Global Risk in November 2012 to deliver Misys Risk Insight, a broader solution with dynamic functionality aimed at meeting the needs of both risk officers and business managers. Misys Global Risk, a modular enterprise risk platform, was the…
NovaSparks’ STAC-M1 Benchmark Highlights Determinism Under Load
A just released STAC Report covering the performance of NovaSparks’ FPGA market data platform highlights not just its processing latency but also the deterministic nature of that latency under different data loads. The STAC-M1 benchmark (as defined by financial markets participants and administered by the Securities Technology Analysis Center) measures the performance of direct data…