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Moody’s Corporation Elects Kathy Hill to Board of Directors
Moody’s Corporation announced today that Kathy Hill has been elected to its board of directors. The election is effective immediately. She will serve as a member of the Governance & Compensation Committee and Audit Committee. Ms. Hill, 55, has over 30 years of experience in the management and leadership of operations and engineering organizations. Since…
Thomson Reuters Integrates DataScope Pricing and Reference Data with Black Mountain Systems’ Everest
Thomson Reuters has just completed the integration work involved in allowing Black Mountain Systems’ portfolio management system Everest clients to access the data giant’s DataScope Select pricing and reference data. Brian Buzzelli, head of pricing and reference data for the Americas region at Thomson Reuters, explains the details of the customised data integration process, which…
CMA Releases New Parsing System for Credit Options
CMA Parsing Credit Options is the first parsing solution available for the credit options market. The solution builds on CMA’s extensive parsing technology for OTC markets, which includes CDS, bonds and loan runs. The product extracts pricing data from emails, enabling users to capture and compare a full set of pricing information with volatility surfaces…
Virginie’s Blog – Control
The recent woes at UBS with its own Nick Leeson/Jerome Kerviel (delete as desired) style rogue trader and this month’s MF Global bankruptcy investigation into its customer data practices have both highlighted an important aspect of data management: control. Whether it be data and system access concerns, or those related to the treatment of customer…
SunGard adds Fitch Solutions CDS Data to its FastVal Service for Independent Valuations
SunGard has chosen Fitch Solutions consensus CDS pricing service to enhance SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and structured OTC derivatives. Fitch’s CDS Pricing Service covers up to 3,000 single name CDS contracts using independent pricing data from the member banks of Fitch’s global pricing services consortium. It also includes Fitch CDS Benchmarking…
Sapient Global Markets to Construct European DataWarehouse
The Market Group announced on Tuesday the selection of Sapient Global Markets, part of Sapient, to design and build the European DataWarehouse (ED). In direct response to the European Central Bank’s (ECB) efforts to facilitate risk assessment and improve transparency standards for Asset Backed Securities (ABS), ED will be the first European central data repository…
ISDA Leads Industry Effort to Standardize the Credit Support Annex
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today outlined key provisions to the Standard Credit Support Annex (SCSA) proposal as part of its continuing efforts to increase efficiency and improve standardization in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets. The SCSA proposal addresses three primary objectives. The SCSA seeks to standardize market practices by removing embedded…
Citihub Pushes Down IPC Latency with Hardcore/Tibco FTL Combo
Trading technology consulting firm Citihub has released highlights of performance testing it completed on Tibco Software’s FTL middleware running on Hardware Computer’s over-clocked, liquid-cooled Detonator workstation. Not surprisingly, the results are the fastest seen to date for inter-process communication. According to Citihub associate partner Ben Newton, the tests were driven by ongoing consulting engagements with…
Markit Acquires QSG, Enters Data Analytics Sector
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced that it has acquired Quantitative Services Group (QSG). QSG is a leading provider of independent equity research, advanced trading analytics and investment consulting services. The acquisition expands Markit’s capabilities in equities and will enable Markit to expose its high-quality data products to QSG’s statistical processes…
SunGard Availability Services Strengthens European Senior Management Team
SunGard Availability Services, the pioneer and leading provider of Information Availability and business continuity services, has today announced two significant promotions to its Senior Management Team to help expand its footprint in the UK and European markets. Mike Threlfall has been appointed to the newly created position of European, UK&I consulting and software director, while…