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Reuters Testing Equity Derivatives Pricing Capability, Will Make Prices Available to All Clients in Q3
In a bid to keep up with customer requirements for prices across a broader range of instrument types, Reuters is currently testing a capability to price equity derivatives, with a view to making equity derivatives prices available to all clients in the third quarter. Increasingly, consumers of evaluations have a growing abundance of sources to…
Helaba Invest and HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt Pick Telekurs Financial’s Intraday Pricing Service
Helaba Invest and HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt have opted to install Intraday Pricing Service (IPS) from Telekurs Financial in their organisations. Intraday Pricing Service delivers real-time snapshots at times defined by the customer. It facilitates the updated, individual valuation of portfolios and securities holdings several times a day. In combination with the Intraday Pricing Service,…
With Derivatives Value Set to Break $500 Trillion Next Year, Cutting Valuations Risk is a Must, Says Celent
Analyst Celent has responded to the buzz around valuations for OTC derivatives and structured products with a report released this month in which it compares risk and pricing analytics solutions to support financial engineering and valuation functions. To put the importance of these solutions in context, Celent predicts that the combined notional value for all…
Interactive Data Expands Analytics Content to North America, Following European Launch Last Year
Interactive Data Corporation is making available analytics content, powered by its BondEdge service, to evaluated pricing clients in North America. The new Analytix Direct service, introduced in Europe in 2006 (Reference Data Review, November 2006) “delivers a range of option-adjusted measures including duration and convexity, option-adjusted spread (OAS) and key rate durations”, according to the…
Interactive Data Adds Independent Valuations of Interest Rate Swaps Based on ICAP Benchmark Curves
Interactive Data Corporation’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced a service that will automate the delivery of independent valuations of interest rate swaps based on benchmark curves from ICAP, and trade details input by customers. Ian Blance, vice president, capital markets, Interactive Data (Europe), says this development has been driven by client demand. “Since…
Swift AGM Approves New Regulators Category
Swift has received unanimous approval at its AGM for the addition of Financial Market Regulators as a new participant category on the network. Admitting regulators to Swift will make it easier for Swift members and users to meet regulatory transaction reporting obligations, while facilitating the development of global regulatory reporting solutions, Swift says. The approval…
Help Out There for Asset Managers Struggling to Price OTC Derivatives, But Outsourcing No Silver Bullet
One of the many operational challenges faced by fund managers as they invest more in OTC derivatives is accurately valuing portfolios containing hard to price instruments, but the good news is that “there’s a lot of experience out there” for firms to tap into, delegates at the recent Optimising OTC Derivative Operations in Fund Management…
Cicada Boosts Integration With Cicada Profiler 1.4
Cicada has revealed the next version upgrade of its Cicada Profiler software, a packaged solution for anti-money laundering and Know Your Customer (KYC) data management requirements. The software is designed to bring improved collaboration, control and centralisation to customer identification and risk-based due diligence processes. The release focuses on increased integration with third-party data used…
Reuters Enterprise Data Likely to Be Reference Data Force Post-Merger
Thomson Corp.’s agreed acquisition of Reuters, which remains subject to regulatory approvals, would essentially ‘reverse’ Reuters into Thomson Financial, creating a financial information business larger than current market leader Bloomberg (Market Data Insight, May 2007). Following the proposed merger – which envisages Reuters CEO Tom Glocer taking the helm of the overall Thomson-Reuters corporation and…
Interactive Data Leverages Pricing, Reference Data for MiFID Offer
Interactive Data Corp is leveraging the assets of its Pricing and Reference Data unit, as well as those of its Real-Time Services group, to offer a range of services aimed at helping clients meet their obligations under the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Interactive Data believes its real-time and reference data services units…