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Pricing Partners Extends its Solution for Correlation and Dispersion Swaps
Pricing Partners announced today that it has extended Price-it language to price faster correlation and dispersion swaps. Correlation and dispersion swaps allow taking view on implied versus historical correlation. These products have been popular for a few years. Pricing them in a generic scripting language payoff framework could be very cumbersome. Hence, Pricing Partners developed…
Talend Appoints Peter Gyenes to its Board of Directors
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced that Peter Gyenes has joined its Board of Directors. With more than four decades of enterprise software and systems experience, Gyenes brings to Talend much relevant experience in scaling technology companies successfully. “Peter brings deep expertise in data integration and a distinguished career in operational leadership,…
ESMA Provides FAQ on Common Definitions for European Money Market Funds Under UCITS
As part of the revised Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Directive in Europe, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Q&A document that details its guidelines for regulators regarding common definitions for the supervision of money market funds. The paper is aimed at getting European regulators in synch with…
Bank Vontobel Replaces Old Technology with Princeton’s Data Warehouse
Swiss private bank and asset manager Bank Vontobel has implemented Princeton Financial Systems’ DVS Fund Warehouse to store investment fund master data and valuation data, and deliver improved reporting to customers. The bank has also added the DVS Ratio Calculation Engine to calculate ratios when preparing key investor information documents. Princeton, a New Jersey-based provider…
SIX Telekurs Completes New Round of Expansion of its Global Real-Time Market Data Services
SIX Telekurs has added 35 sources of real-time market data from global exchanges, institutional contributors and financial news providers since the beginning of 2011. This expansion of services brings better access to market information in the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Northern Europe. The additional real-time sources, which include upgraded services…
BlueBay Asset Management Goes Live with Vermilion KIID Solution
BlueBay Asset Management Ltd (‘BlueBay’), a market leading asset management company, went live with Vermilion Software’s outsourced Key Investor Information Document (‘KIID’) reporting service, VRS KIID, in July 2011. This followed an extensive selection process, including the review of the other KIID reporting offerings in the market place. BlueBay selected Vermilion in April of this…
Developing a Benchmark for Latency
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) is the non-profit, global industry organisation focused on driving increased efficiencies and cost savings for the trading community. FPL is a membership-driven organisation that works closely with firms across the globe to develop standards that address the real business challenges impacting trading capabilities. The organisation has recently turned its attention to…
Growth in APAC Economies Drives Netik Expansion into Asia Pacific Region
Netik, the global leading provider of financial data creation, management and distribution services and solutions, announced today a key strategic move in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of its Hong Kong office. As part of Netik’s overall repositioning strategy and to complement their existing commercial centres in New York and London, the Hong…
SEC Names Kathleen Weiss Hanley as Deputy Chief Economist and Deputy Director of Riskfin
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Kathleen Weiss Hanley has been named Deputy Director and Deputy Chief Economist for the SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation (RiskFin). RiskFin was created in September 2009 to provide interdisciplinary analysis to help inform the Commission’s policymaking, rulemaking, enforcement, and examinations. The division encompasses the…
Cloud Industry Forum Joins Third Party Assurance Initiative
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) today announced it has partnered with the Third Party Assurance Centre (TPAC), a business assurance initiative, formed to help minimise outsourcing risks. Other industry bodies partnering with TPAC include the Information Security Forum, Cloud Security Alliance, Common Assurance Maturity Model, and the Payment Card Industry board of advisers. A recent…