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Mellon to Provide Independent OTC Derivatives Valuations
Mellon Financial Corporation is to provide to institutional clients through its Asset Servicing group an independent over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives valuation service covering a range of swaps and options. The move comes as regulatory and risk pressures force investors to seek independent valuations, rather than relying entirely on their investment managers or prime brokers. The new…
Netik InterView Central to SOA At Daiwa Securities GAS
Dublin based hedge fund administrator Daiwa Securities Global Asset Services (GAS) has rolled out the Netik InterView data warehouse platform for data management and reporting. The Netik solution is central to the administrator’s services oriented architecture (SOA) strategy, based around Microsoft .Net technologies, and going forward will be used to synchronise all data between its…
HSBC Securities Services First Phase Live on CheckFree eVent
HSBC Securities Services (HSS) has implemented CheckFree’s eVent solution to deliver automated corporate actions processing for its investment administration clients. eVent is live for data cleansing and event capture, interfacing to data vendor feeds, static data sources and custodians for Swift messaging. Going forward, HSBC will roll out the eVent system to provide end to…
S&P Becomes EDM Council’s First Data Vendor Sponsor
Standard & Poor’s has become the first data vendor to join the EDM Council as sponsor, where it will work alongside the likes of other new vendor sponsors ADP Brokerage Services Group and Deutsche Boerse-owned Avox (Reference Data Review, December 2006), to help develop effective solutions to manage data across the enterprise. Through its involvement…
FT Interactive Data Adds Enhancements to Bank Loan Pricing Service
FT Interactive Data has enhanced its bank loan pricing service, which pro-vides clients with access to independent valuations of syndicated bank loans and now also automates the delivery of refinancing, termination and substantial amendments to loans, as well as the effective date of the change. Bank loan prices are provided by Markit Group and drawn…
CicadaRisk Merged into New RiskGrid Unit Within Investors Guaranty
As predicted in Reference Data Review, October 2006, Investors Guaranty Group has launched a new risk management solutions unit, RiskGrid Technologies, into which the operations and technology of CicadaRisk has been merged. The group is also aligning RiskGrid Technologies within a suite of companies and solutions that comprise its financial services industry vertical. CicadaRisk was…
S&P Upgrades Compustat Xpressfeed With New Data Items
Standard & Poor’s has completed a series of enhancements to its Compustat Xpressfeed offering. The enhancements include 1000 new company-level data items now available within Compustat data, which includes fundamental and market data on some 65,000 global securities. Among the data enhancements are: additional current and historical annual fundamental data and footnotes, including income statement…
ADP, Avox Sign Up to Sponsor EDM Council
ADP Brokerage Services Group and Deutsche Boerse-owned Avox have signed up as sponsors of the EDM Council. They join BearingPoint, Cicada, GoldenSource, IBM and SunGard. This development comes as the EDM Council undertakes its transition to a member-owned, rather than a sponsor-owned, model (Reference Data Review, September 2006). Ken Price, CEO of Avox, says this…
Sky Road Adds Markit CDS Pricing And RED to Hedge Fund Solution
Hosted hedge fund solution provider Sky Road has partnered with Markit Group to integrate its data feed, enabling portfolio and risk managers of credit-based strategies to trade, model and perform scenario based risk analysis for credit derivatives. The Sky Road platform, based on the Calypso system, will incorporate Markit’s CDS, iTraxx and Dow Jones CDX…
Spending on Legal Entity Data Management to Top $250m by 2010
By 2010, more than 10 per cent of total spending within the enterprise data management industry will be on legal entity data management, says analyst Aite Group in a new impact report. Regulatory pressure is driving a 200 per cent average annual growth rate in spending in this market, Aite says, encouraging spend on legal…