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Virginie’s Blog – Reference Data @ Sibos
Ahead of Swift’s annual conference later this month, here’s a quick roundup of the reference data related sessions on the agenda for those heading to Toronto (and a preview for those of you who will be waiting for A-Team coverage of the event). In keeping with Swift’s extended ambitions in the reference data standards space…
Algorithmics Indicates it Will Stick to Existing Product Roadmaps Post-IBM Acquisition
IBM’s US$387 million acquisition of risk specialist Algorithmics will see the incorporation of the latter’s staff and products into the IBM fold. According to company executives, Algorithmics will add credit, market and liquidity risk solutions to IBM’s business analytics and optimisation division, while IBM will offer Algorithmics’ users extended analytics capabilities, as well as business…
Virginie’s Blog – IBM and Algorithmics: Following the Alignment Pattern
IBM’s planned acquisition of Algorithmics, which was announced earlier this week (timed nicely on 1 September alongside two other acquisition announcements – NYSE Euronext buying Metabit and SunGard buying Finace), is just another example of the increasing trend within the vendor community and (to some extent) the industry at large of the alignment of risk…
Ben Clissold Joins State Street Global Advisors as Senior LDI Portfolio Manager
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street Corporation, today announced the appointment of Ben Clissold as senior liability-driven investment (LDI) portfolio manager within the Investment Solutions Group. Clissold will be based in London and will report to Raymond Haines, head of European Liability-Driven Investment. Clissold joins from P-Solve Asset Solutions,…
Vienna Stock Exchange Launches New Sector Indices
Today, the Vienna Stock Exchange started calculating and publishing new sector indices for the ATX and CEESEG (CEE Stock Exchange Group whose subsidiaries are the exchanges of Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague and Vienna) to round off its range of indices and meet market demand. The ATX sector indices are based on the companies in the ATX…
Northern Trust Announces Leadership Changes in Australia/New Zealand and the Channel Islands
Northern Trust announced today that Rohan Singh will become managing director for Northern Trust in Australia and New Zealand. Singh replaces Paul Cutts who will assume the role of country head for the Channel Islands, based in Guernsey. The transition for both roles will take effect on 1 November 2011. Since joining Northern Trust in…
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…
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…