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Numerix Licenses Source Code of Portfolio Risk Product to Paladyne
Derivatives pricing and risk analytics provider Numerix has deviated from its normal partnership practice to license source code, development rights and unlimited distribution rights for its Portfolio risk product to Paladyne Systems, the investment management solutions firm within sell-side specialist Broadridge Financial Solutions. As part of the deal, Paladyne has also taken on the Toronto-…
Wolters Kluwer Proposes Solutions for the Challenges of Risk Data
Risk data needs to be identified, aggregated and centralised to deliver improved risk management. But the process entails significant challenges as risk data is growing exponentially, operational risk data related to people, processes and systems must be managed, and financial risk data remains inconsistent across institutions. That’s the message from Ioannis Akkizidis, global product manager…
Markit Builds on Risk Expertise to Extend Functionality of Portfolio Valuations Service
Markit has added in-house risk expertise and newly developed scenario analysis to its portfolio valuations service with a view to offering users improved risk management and increased transparency around valuations. The same market data and pricing models are used to drive both risk and valuations, allowing the service to provide value at risk (VaR) and…
Talking Reference Data with Andrew Delaney: A Close Shave
Anyone who was lucky enough to squeeze into the opening keynote presentation at our Data Management Summit in March (standing room only) would have heard me winging it a little as I awaited our speaker – Wipro’s Paolo Mittiga – who’d been delayed by various transportational snafus. When I took the stage to offer our…
Industry Underprepared for OTC Derivatives Trading and Market Regulation
By Ganesh Iyer, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services, IPC Systems While recent years have seen much talk of financial reforms, there has remained a distinct lack of clarity around what new regulations will mean for financial institutions. In the trading industry, the regulations that will have the biggest impact are European Market Infrastructure…
MacKay Shields Implements Markit EDM to Support Data Management
MacKay Shields, a US-based investment firm owned by New York Life Investment Management and with over $70 billion in assets under management, has selected Markit EDM’s data management solution to manage the collection and distribution of data across its investment management systems. Markit won the deal in a competitive selection process and is working with…
Interactive Data Sets Out on Route to Deliver Real-Time Evaluated Pricing Services
Interactive Data is building out real-time delivery of its evaluated pricing services starting with plans to expand its real-time fixed income pricing services to include real-time evaluations. The expanded service is due to roll out in the final quarter of 2013 and will be followed by additional evaluation services with availability boosted from end of…
S&P Capital IQ Supports Credit Risk Assessment with Additional Platform Tools
S&P Capital IQ will go live with a suite of credit risk assessment tools on its online research, data and news platform on Monday, April 29. The credit risk tools are designed to help assess rated and unrated public and private companies and support activities including peer analytics, portfolio reviews and counterparty credit assessments. They…
A-Team Group Webinar Reveals Significant Issues in Development of the Global LEI System
The global legal entity identifier initiative is well underway with a Regulatory Oversight Committee providing governance and pre-Local Operating Units assigning legal entity identifiers, but the ultimate success of the system depends on the as yet unformed Central Operating Unit, the quality of entity data and its ongoing maintenance. These issues and more related to…
Q&A: Gil Tene of Azul Systems on Why Java Works for Low Latency
It’s a bit of a paradox that Java is so widely used across all applications and industries, and yet is often cited as not suitable for the automated trading space. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com caught up with Gil Tene, CTO and Co-founder of Azul Systems, to find out more about Java performance, and how to improve it. Q: To…