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Kempen & Co. Replaces Equity Derivatives Pricing and Data with SuperDerivative
Kempen & Co. has selected SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark and leading multi-asset front office solution, to replace its existing equity derivatives market data and pricing service. As a leading merchant bank and asset manager in the international market, Kempen & Co required an accurate benchmarking tool in the interbank OTC equity market, as well…
Princeton Financial Systems Signs Invesco Great Wall FMC, Expands Presence in China
Princeton Financial Systems today announced that it has signed Invesco Great Wall FMC (IGW) as a new PAM client. IGW joins other recently signed PAM clients in China, Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Shanghai) and UBS-SDIC Fund Management Co., Ltd. (Shenzen) as Princeton Financial Systems expands its presence in this region. As the…
SIX Telekurs Bolsters Regional Expertise in Tokyo Office
Financial information provider SIX Telekurs is proud to announce that Hidehiro Kanehara and Shigeo Katsuno have joined SIX Telekurs Japan Ltd at the company’s Tokyo office. The two new members of the team bring with them years of financial expertise and arrive at a time when SIX Telekurs faces growing demand for its services in…
FlexFinance IFRS Live After a Three Month Project Implementation Period
One year ahead of the Central Bank’s schedule, Access Bank, FERNBACH Software’s first Nigerian customer, announced the successful completion of its FlexFinance IFRS implementation. In a record time of less than 3 months, the joint team of Access Bank, KPMG and FERNBACH implemented FlexFinance IFRS. By completing the project, Access Bank has enlisted Nigeria among…
Thomson Reuters Embeds Data Visualization Technology into Quant Trading Platform
Thomson Reuters today announced it has joined forces with Panopticon Software, a provider of visual data analysis solutions, to embed data visualization capabilities into the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Velocity Analytics. These new capabilities are available both as a managed service within Elektron, the firm’s high performance real-time network and hosting environment, or deployed…
Transatlantic Tension
Speakers from the European Commission at this week’s Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) post-trade conference highlighted the ongoing tension between US and European regulators with regards to the changing global agenda for oversight. Data sharing arrangements may be in place and discussions about data standards may be ongoing across the Atlantic, but what…
Interactive Data’s CMO Ivaliotis Departs for Pastures New
Interactive Data’s chief marketing officer Mary Ivaliotis is the latest exec to depart the data vendor following its post-acquisition management shake up at the start of this year. Last month, president of institutional sales Cort Williams jumped ship to join data vendor rival SIX Telekurs.
Moody’s Acquires a Direct Equity Stake in KIS Pricing, a Leading Korean Bond Pricing Company
Moody’s Corporation announced today that it has acquired a 16% direct equity stake in KIS Pricing, a leading Korean bond pricing company, positioning Moody’s to benefit from continued strong growth in the Korean domestic debt markets. The acquisition adds to Moody’s existing indirect ownership of KIS Pricing through its controlling equity stake in Korea Investors…
IASB and FASB Issue Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued new guidance on fair value measurement and disclosure requirements for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The guidance, set out in IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement and an update to Topic 820 in the…
The Race to Zero – Three Rules for Winning
Deutsche Boerse Group, one of the world’s leading financial exchanges, recently developed a new ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure linking Frankfurt to five other key worldwide trading centres. The target for the Frankfurt-London link was 5 milliseconds (0.005 seconds). Pushing the limits of how quickly computers can process instructions is the new battleground in finance. True zero…