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Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO) Goes Live With Calypso as Central Valuation Solution
Calypso Technology, a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions and corporate treasuries, announced today that Legacy Asset Management Company (LAMCO), a fully owned subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., has gone into production with the Calypso system as its core derivatives platform for valuation and risk….
Thomson Reuters Grows Legal Entity Data Solution to Address Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of an expanded legal entity data solution, which will be available for retrieval via Thomson Reuters DataScope Select and Thomson Reuters DataScope Onsite. This offering significantly expands the firm’s legal entity content capability, which is approaching coverage of 1 million entities across nearly 250 markets and 50 languages. Thomson…
Eagle Asset Management Ramps Up Institutional Sales Support
Eagle Asset Management, provider of equity and fixed-income investment strategies to institutional and individual investors, has hired Donald J. Pepin as Director of Institutional Sales. He will focus on strategic initiatives targeting domestic and international consultants as well as direct new business development. Pepin has nearly 30 years of industry experience in areas including institutional…
ASX Upgrades Core Data Management Infrastructure with GoldenSource EDM
The ASX Group (ASX) has selected GoldenSource EDM to upgrade and replace its current corporate data management system known as CORE. The new platform will serve as the most comprehensive repository of historical data as well as the essential link for equity trading and settlement processes at ASX. With a centralized, trusted copy of company,…
SWIFT Announces 16% Rebate on 2011 Messaging
SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,700 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today a rebate of 16 percent on 2011 messaging usage. The new rebate will return approximately EUR 52 million to SWIFT users and will be paid in January 2012. This rebate comes in addition to a 20 percent…
XSP Unveils eTRAN+ Customizable User Interface for Web-Based Notification and Response Capture Processing
XSP, the global leader in automated end?to?end Corporate Actions solutions, today at Sibos unveiled eTRAN+, its latest innovation for Web?Based notification and response capture. This next?generation widget is built leveraging the XSP GO!™ framework to provide clients with a customizable user interface to manage Corporate Actions notification and response processing. Its predecessor, the eTRAN (Electronic…
Asset Control Launches Financial Data Collection Service to Optimize Sourcing Efficiency and Reduce Costs
Asset Control, provider of financial data management solutions and services, has enhanced its AC Plus data management platform by launching an on-demand instrument set-up module. The AC Plus Collection Service is a service-based solution that helps customers simplify and improve data accuracy in the complex new instrument set-up process. It also helps customers better align…
Swift’s Vandenreydt Elaborates on the Three Pillars of its Reference Data Strategy
Swift has broken its reference data strategy down into three main pillars: its response to the Sifma led, Office of Financial Research (OFR) sanctioned working group focused on developing a new legal entity identification (LEI) standard; its payments reference data efforts; and its (rather nebulous at the moment) securities reference data strategy. Fabian Vandenreydt, Swift’s…
Celoxica Extends FPGAs to Transactions, HFT Futures
With the release of its latest Container offering, Celoxica – an early adopter of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology for market data feed handling – is extending its functionality to handle transactional messages, such as outbound orders. The focus of this new functionality – says Celoxica president Lee Staines – is to support trading…
NovaSparks Cites Nanosecond Performance of FPGA Data Appliance
NovaSparks has released performance data for its FPGA-based data feed appliance based on the highly volatile market conditions in August, noting average latencies of 400 nanoseconds, and extreme cases of 900 nanoseconds. On test was NovaSparks’ Gen2 appliance, which is based entirely on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology (i.e. unlike some competing products, no…