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MSCI Hires Peter Zangari as Head of Equity Portfolio Management Analytics Business
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, announced today the appointment of Peter Zangari as Managing Director and Head of the firm’s Equity Portfolio Management Analytics business. In this role, Mr Zangari will be responsible for driving growth and product innovation across a broad range of equity portfolio management products, including Barra…
MSCI Launches New Barra Equity Models
MSCI, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and corporate governance services, announced today the launch of the first in a family of new Barra Equity Models – Barra US Equity Model (USE4). Barra USE4 includes the latest advances in risk methodology, providing institutional investors with…
CMA Launches CDS Pricing that Factor in Quanto Risk
CMA, the leading provider for intraday CDS data and OTC market solutions, has announced the launch of a new product that takes into account the CDS ‘Quanto’ spread of key Euro-zone Sovereigns. Given European sovereign CDS are typically traded in USD and not the domestic currency (Euros), in order to accurately mark-to-market, holders of Sovereign…
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…
Tullett Prebon’s OTC Valuations Introduces High-Volume Low-Cost Price Verification Service (PVS)
Tullett Prebon today announces that OTC Valuations (OTC Valuations), its technology-driven services firm providing post-trade securities and derivative valuation services to clients globally, has rolled out its new OTC derivative price verification service aimed at high volume portfolios of vanilla through to complex products. Daily valuations are typically charged at $0.20 USD, which includes full…
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:…