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Disparate Markets and Complex Trading Call for Smarter Exceptions Management – Contributed by Coexis
Disparate markets and complex trading call for smarter exceptions management, argues Donal O’Brien, business development director of Coexis. If Societe Generale’s reference data systems had been a bit wiser to the activities of its users, could the actions of Jerome Kerviel and the French bank’s subsequent £3.7bn loss have been avoided? The need for increasingly…
Fitch Solutions Launches ABCDS Pricing
In order to meet the growing demand for an independent source of pricing data that covers the global ABS product spectrum, Fitch Solutions has launched Fitch ABCDS Pricing to complement its existing single name CDS and Loan CDS services. Fitch ABCDS Pricing includes coverage of over 7,500 ABCDS combining consensus pricing for liquid issues with benchmarking…
… And Adds Time Series to Valordata Feed
Telekurs Financial is introducing VDF Time Series as part of the Valordata Feed (VDF) data offering. Up until now, only daily valuation prices for various price types have been supplied through Telekurs Financial’s Valordata Feed. With the new VDF Time Series service, however, complete time series will now be included in VDF. With the time…
Telekurs Introduces Standard Interface Between VDF And Eagle’s EDM System…
Telekurs has introduced a standard interface between its Valordata Feed (VDF) and Eagle Investment Systems’ data management solution. Eagle’s solution is a data management platform that provides connectivity and data integration from numerous sources and consolidates it in one location. The Valordata Feed delivers information from Telekurs’ database of structured, encoded securities information. Covering 4…
Life’s not fair…
Well it had to happen eventually: the whinging by some of the financial institutions making significant write-downs that it’s the accounting standards that are to blame, not any shortcoming on their part in allowing themselves to become dangerously over-exposed to instruments they didn’t properly understand. Accusations that “fair value” accounting standards are making the credit…
Buy Side EDM Demand Holding Up, New-Look Cadis Software Claims
The evolution of the buy side EDM specialist formerly known as Citadel Associates that was set in train by the departure of managing director Jean Williams and the company’s acquisition by a group of seasoned financial technology investors mid-last year has culminated in its renaming as Cadis Software. As the vendor assumes the name of…
Capgemini Majors on Flexibility for Reference Data Outsourcing
Capgemini’s recently announced reference data management (RDM) services, which include business process outsourcing (BPO), are differentiated from competitive offerings by their flexibility, the consulting, technology and outsourcing provider claims. Capgemini will not be saying to clients, “here’s a solution – take it or leave it”, according to Saleel Nair, its global leader of reference data…
Xtrakter Names Jinks Director, Commercial Operations
Xtrakter, part of the ICMA group of companies, has appointed Richard Jinks to the position of director of commercial operations. Xtrakter is planning a range of new data services based on its recently completed new data warehouse. Jinks previously held senior positions at Misys, Omgeo, Checkfree and BT Global Financial Services, where he was involved…
LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) Adds Richard Bennett as LakeFrontData Associate
Richard Bennett has joined the LakeFrontData Partner Program as a LakeFrontData Ventures (LDV) associate partner. Bennett, most recently, was working with Standard & Poor’s, assisting the data vendor with its global equity index platform environment. In his new role Bennett will be concentrating his efforts on expanding and supporting the LDV enterprise data consulting business.
Capco’s Dizdarevic Left “Partner Without Portfolio” By Sale of CRDS to Netik
Predrag Dizdarevic, previously partner and president of Capco Reference Data Services, has been left as “partner without portfolio” following Capco’s sale of its managed reference data services arm to Netik. He is now styling himself “independent consultant”.