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Opportunity Knocks for the SMB Market
By Brian Reid, managing director of The Connect Partnership IBM and Oracle products are now more affordable to the smaller and medium sized business (SMB and MMB) marketplace. The opportunity to implement best in class technical and data architecture is now an economically viable proposition for these organisations. At the recent TSAM conference on 3…
SuperDerivatives Upgrades VolSurface Solution for Mark to Market Rules
Derivatives data specialist SuperDerivatives has upgraded and renamed its derivatives revaluation and risk management offering, VolSurface, to accommodate improvements to market data and risk reference data. The service, which is now called Mark-to-Market Data, has been altered to more adequately meet the requests of its customers following recent feedback, says the vendor. Dani Weigert, Mark-to-Market…
Kuwait’s Markaz Rolls Out Fincad Analytics for Derivatives Pricing and Analytics
Middle Eastern asset management and investment banking firm Markaz has completed the rollout of Fincad Analytics for its derivatives pricing and analytics. The firm, which is based in the Kuwait Financial Centre, has implemented the solution as part of its wider plans to build options trading and technology infrastructure for the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Hussein…
Asset Control Adds Language Support for Asian Character Sets in AC Plus
EDM vendor Asset Control has added new localised language capabilities to its AC Plus data management software in order to support users in the Asia Pacific region. The new additions have been built upon the vendor’s AC Plus Desktop platform and allow for the processing, editing and display of multi-byte character sets, such as Han…
China Life Asset Management Opts for DSTi’s HiPortfolio/3 for Accounting
China Life Asset Management Corporation (CLAMC) has completed the rollout of DST International’s (DSTi’s) HiPortfolio/3 investment accounting solution. The firm, which is one of the largest institutional investors in China, opted to implement the solution with a view to increasing its STP and allowing its managers to more effectively monitor their portfolios. Zhang Feng Min,…
Cadis Integrates London Stock Exchange’s Datalect into its EDM Suite
EDM vendor Cadis has integrated the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) Datalect product suite into its EDM Suite, including the exchange operator’s Sedol Masterfile service. According to the vendor, the data has been integrated via a new Cadis adaptor, which it claims will enable clients to maximise the value of the data that the LSE provides…
ICE US Trust Receives Regulatory Approval from Fed, Interdealer Brokers Get Annoyed, Eurex Declares Out of US
Following the announcement of its European ambitions in February, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has indicated that it has finally received regulatory approval from the board of governors of the Federal Reserve for ICE US Trust to act as a clearing house and central counterparty (CCP) for credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the US. The exchange operator…
Mark to Market Discussions Continue at Financial Crisis Advisory Group, US Government Plans More Talks
The Financial Crisis Advisory Group, which was formed last year by the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) to tackle the financial crisis, has this week discussed how best to solve the issues surrounding fair value pricing. The group discussed the problems to do with mark to market accounting…
Buy Side Has a Long Way to go to Catch up to Sell Side in Data Management, TSAM 2009 Delegates Told
The buy side is significantly behind the sell side in terms of progress towards reaching data management nirvana, according to speakers at this week’s TSAM 2009 conference in London. Most buy side firms are lacking in data tsars or relevant executive level champions to push forward change in the area of improving data quality, delegates…
Regulatory Compulsion is on the Cards and ECB is Looking at Data Semantics Repository, Says Atkin at TSAM 2009
The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council has been involved in a “whirlwind” of meetings with regulators over recent months to further the cause of data management, said EDM Council managing director, Mike Atkin, at TSAM 2009 this week. The European Central Bank (ECB) in particular is looking at the area of data semantics adoption in…