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Virginie’s Blog – Are Valuations Vendors Making the Grade?
Back in July, I touched upon some of the findings of our valuations benchmarking efforts in the North American markets, noting that many buy side firms in these markets want vendor performance to improve to meet their current and future needs. Well, the full report is finally available to download (see here) and it seems…
News – Machine Readable – is in the News
The low-latency delivery of machine readable news – to drive trading algorithms before the market moves – is a continuing story in itself. So here’s a quick roundup of recent headlines, including news from Selerity, Deutsche Borse, RavenPack and Thomson Reuters … * Selerity has installed an aggregation point of presence at Equinix’s Frankfurt data…
Ex-Bloomberg Manager Haddock Joins Annaly Capital Management as Op Risk Exec
Ex-Bloomberg manager Joseph Haddock has departed the data vendor after 13 years to join Annaly Capital Management. Haddock, who was previously in charge of data services including corporate actions at the data giant, is now executive vice president of operational risk at the New York-based buy side firm. Haddock spent just over 13 years at…
Perpetual Rolls Out Central Data Hub with Cadis Platform
Perpetual (Perpetual), one of Australia’s leading diversified financial services groups, has gone live with the Cadis EDM platform. Cadis, the global EDM specialist, was selected as the central data hub for Perpetual Investments, which manages investment funds exceeding $27 billion in fixed income, domestic and global equities. Perpetual selected Cadis based on the reputation and…
ClusterSeven Delivers a Basket of Upgrades to the Management of MS Access Databases in ADM Version 4.0
ClusterSeven, an international provider of strategic spreadsheet and data management software, has announced the release of Version 4.0 of its Access Data Management (ADM) product. This is the latest in a series of improvements since the product launch in March 2008. ClusterSeven ADM is designed to detect unauthorized changes to Microsoft Access databases and alert…
MiFID II Proposals: Perspective from MarketAxess
MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for U.S. and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other fixed income securities, reiterates its views on the range of proposals outlined in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), which is scheduled to be finalized in October. MarketAxess believes that:…
Pension Schemes Must Face ‘Game Changing’ Legislation Head-On; Address Data and Technology Management Issues Now
In light of upcoming regulatory requirements (Auto-Enrolment, the Retail Distribution Review and Solvency II), the pivotal role of data and technology strategy should be a central concern to all pension professionals and trustees seeking to operate efficient, compliant and effective schemes. Published today, the Clear Path Analysis report ‘Data and Technology Management for Pension Schemes’,…
CMA’s Moody Talks up Recent Launch of its OTC Derivatives Valuations Solution CMA NAVigate 1.6
CME Group owned data business CMA has recently launched a new OTC derivatives workflow solution that is aimed at streamlining the mark to market process and granting access to all valuation inputs for reporting purposes. Reference Data Review speaks to Gareth Moody, vice president of sales for the Americas, who joined the vendor as a start up…
ISDA and S&P Indices to Co-brand S&P Credit Default Swap Indices
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and S&P Indices announced today that they will co-brand S&P’s existing Credit Default Swap (CDS) Indices as S&P/ISDA CDS Indices. The S&P/ISDA CDS Indices seek to reflect the credit default swap market for U.S. corporate credits and increase transparency for market participants. “We are very pleased to…
Virginie’s Blog – Things Keeping the Industry Awake at Night (About the LEI)
Standards are tricky beasts, they may be developed for one purpose and misused, and they are also often appropriated for purposes for which they were not initially intended. So choosing the right standard for something as important as legal entity identification (LEI) is obviously not a decision to be taken lightly and it is one…