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Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken Extends Relationship with SunGard’s FastVal
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), one of Europe’s leading banks, has extended its relationship with SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. SEB’s prime services offering will now broaden its instrument type coverage through its use of FastVal, when offering its clients an outsourced service for the valuation and risk…
Broadridge Enhances Investigo Solution with Customized Data Scrubbing Capabilities
Broadridge Financial Solutions, announced today the development of a flexible two-tier Data Scrubbing Service as an enhancement to its Investigo insurance and investment data aggregation solutions. This enhancement adds a flexible, rules-based, data scrubbing engine to the already robust aggregation capabilities of the Investigo solution. The new Investigo data scrubbing engine identifies unreconciled positions and…
Virginie’s Blog – Keeping an Eye on Google
I noted the announcement of Google’s participation in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s new data standards subcommittee this month with interest. Given its potential in the financial services market in the area of data management (in the cloud) and the experience it brings to the table, it’s a surprise that steps hadn’t been taken sooner…
Andrew’s Blog – The Problem with Standards?
Every few years I feel the compulsion to write a rant – known these days as a blog – about the problem with standards, and in particular standards relating to financial information. Usually, this is sparked by some new initiative to get competing vendors to live together peacefully so the marketplace can reap the benefits…
Rob Ferguson Named Head of Global Securities Lending, Phil Zywot Named Head of Trading; Robert Chiuch Moves into Leadership Role at Parent Company BNY Mellon
Rob Ferguson has been named head of global securities lending at CIBC Mellon, taking on sole responsibility for leading CIBC Mellon’s capital markets team. Robert Chiuch, formerly co-head of global securities lending at CIBC Mellon, has been named managing director, US equity and corporate securities finance at CIBC Mellon’s parent company BNY Mellon. Also moving…
Talend Simplifies Integration with New Talend ESB Studio and Talend ESB Enterprise Edition for Data Services
Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced the availability of Talend ESB Studio Standard Edition (SE) and Talend ESB Enterprise Edition (EE) for Data Services to accelerate the development, deployment and management of enterprise-class production environments with easy-to-use tools for development and operations teams. Talend continues to democratise the integration market by making…
CFTC Announces the 22 Members of Kirilenko’s Data Standardisation Subcommittee, Google Bags a Slot
Following the announcement last month that it would be establishing a data standardisation focused subcommittee, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced the selection of the 22 members of the team (out of the 52 that applied), which includes (interestingly) Google engineering research director Marc Donner. The other members, who will be led in…
Thomson Reuters Launches Cost Effective Workflow Solution for Hedge Funds
Thomson Reuters today announced the launch of a fully integrated workflow solution bringing together the best in class capabilities including Thomson Reuters Eikon and Elektron to provide the content, portfolio tools and connectivity hedge fund managers need to systematize their operations and drive returns. In an increasingly competitive marketplace hedge funds have been under greater…
Fitch: Solvency II Set to Reshape Asset Allocation and Capital Markets
Fitch Ratings says in a newly-published report that Solvency II, the new regulatory regime for European insurers from 1 January 2013, is poised to transform how insurers allocate their assets, leading to shifts in demand and pricing for several asset classes. The report, entitled “Solvency II Set to Reshape Asset Allocation and Capital Markets”, highlights…
Broadridge Hires Jay Pila to Spearhead Growth of its International Securities Processing and Reconciliation Solutions Business in North America
Broadridge Financial Solutions, today announced the appointment of Jay Pila as SVP and General Manager of its Securities Processing Solutions, International business for the Americas, responsible for driving growth initiatives for Broadridge’s international processing solution range for banks and brokers, investment managers and corporate treasurers. Broadridge’s international processing solutions form a core component of its…