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Invesco Selects Quantifi for Investment Grade Structured Credit Business…
Invesco Worldwide Fixed Income has selected Quantifi XL for its Investment Grade structured credit business. Quantifi XL is a suite of add-in functions for Excel which includes a substitution analysis tool that allows CDO managers to evaluate the economic impact of collateral trades. Rohan Douglas, founder and CEO of Quantifi, comments: “We are delighted that…
Slovakia’s Tatra Bank Deploys SuperDerivatives
Tatra Bank, one of Slovakia’s highest rated banks and a member of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank Osterreich AG (RZB) Group, is deploying SuperDerivatives’ platform for commodities derivatives. SD-CM, SuperDerivatives’ benchmark system for commodity options, provides real-time market prices, risk management and analytics for options on any traded commodity including energy products, metals, and agriculture commodities.
Xignite, Telekurs Forge Corporate Actions Data Distribution Deal
Xignite, provider of financial web services for mission-critical corporate applications, has formed a partnership with Telekurs Financial to provide reciprocal services integrating Xignite’s financial web services with Telekurs Valordata Feed (VDF). The partnership with Xignite will enhance the accuracy of its existing XigniteMaster and web service by using Telekurs VDF’s master data and corporate actions…
Reuters Adds Hourly Corporate Actions Data to DataScope Select
Reuters has added an enhancement to Reuters DataScope Select which will see its corporate actions data updated hourly, rather than once a day. Users will be able to monitor portfolios more actively by choosing how often they receive updates and paying according to the quantity of data they use. Reuters clients will now be able…
Harvard Management Licenses XSP v5 Corporate Actions Software
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has licensed the XSP v5 corporate actions platform. HMC has also licensed XSP’s web-based eTRAN (Electronic Tracking Response and Notifications) and Swift ISO messaging modules for the notification and response capture of elections processing. The XSP v5 platform is built around a service-oriented architecture (SOA), utilising Microsoft .Net components and web…
A perfect match?
The acquisition by Markit of Swapswire garnered considerable attention by virtue simply of being the latest in a seemingly never-ending stream of acquisitions by the data and valuations provider. True to form, with this venture Markit puts itself at the leading edge of the capital markets’ preoccupation – improving the automation of OTC derivatives. In…
A-Team Analysis: Time to Look for Alternatives to ISO for Standards?
Unrest among industry participants about the efficacy of ISO standards creation is reaching a peak as the failure of the formal process to keep pace with the reality of market requirements looks set to prompt a rethink about the best way to create standards for financial markets. Whether there is a better method for solving…
Tony Kirby Trades in Accenture for Ernst & Young
Tony Kirby has left Accenture – which he joined to work in its data management and managed reference data services business, but where he ultimately spearheaded much of the consultancy’s MiFID work – to join Ernst & Young as head of regulation and compliance.
Patent Pending Ref Data Utility Offers Risk Mitigation, Seeks Backers
The inventors of an ambitious plan to create a risk mitigating Reference Data Utility for the securities industry are entering a new phase of marketing for their business venture in the belief that financial institutions can be galvanised by the lure of reduced capital and collateral requirements into solving once and for all the age-old…
Laura Martinez of XSP Elected Vendor Co-Chair of ISITC Corporate Actions Working Group
XSP’s Laura Martinez, principal product manager, has been elected as vendor co-chair of the ISITC Corporate Actions Working Group. In this position, Martinez will collaborate with the group’s co-chairs and members to review ISO 15022 standards and direct enhancements to message content that promote STP for corporate actions. Martinez has been an active participant of…