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AWD Connects Email Capture and BPM
With AWD, the industry-leading business process management (BPM) solution from DST Technologies, companies can now automatically capture incoming email and initiate processing without custom code. Unlike alternative BPM solutions, AWD delivers out-of-the-box integration for inbound email. AWD can identify email by subject, parse data from within the message, determine the work required, prioritise and route…
Asset Control to Deliver Enriched Price Construction, Curves Leveraging FINCAD’s Analytics Library
Asset Control, the world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, is partnering with FINCAD to offer mutual customers enhanced valuation and analytics for fixed income, derivatives and curves firm-wide through integration between Asset Control’s AC Plus data management platform and FINCAD’s industry leading financial analytical library. Accurate and consistent financial valuation analytics alongside prices are…
Reval’s Okochi and Trozzo Highlight Valuations and Data Impacts of US Swaps Market Reforms
It seems everyone’s talking about the data impacts of the Dodd Frank reforms at the moment. Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) hosted a public roundtable on the subject of the new recordkeeping requirements and related standards efforts, and derivatives risk and valuations solution provider Reval also hosted its own webinar on the…
B-One Solution Selected by Nomura Asset Management for Performance, Risk Attribution and Client Reporting
BI-SAM today announced that Nomura Asset Management U.K. has selected its B-One platform for performance, attribution and risk measurement, for its U.K. operations. The U.K. implementation is seen as a potential step towards future global deployment. With seven offices world-wide, Nomura Asset Management is a leading global asset manager. The company’s U.K. office provides a…
STAC Points to Everest Boost
Via a report sponsored by data feed handler specialists SR Labs, the benchmarkers at STAC have just announced data for initial tests run on Intel’s recently-introduced Everest chip. Compared to Intel’s standard Westmere chip, one data point suggests a 22% reduction in mean latency. Everest – or Intel’s Xeon X5698 – is a dual core…
CFTC Roundtable on Unique Product IDs Highlights Mountain Yet to Climb in Terms of Setting Instrument Standards
This week’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) public roundtable on the technical aspects of the introduction of new unique product identifiers (UPIs) highlighted the mountain still yet to climb in terms of setting instrument identification standards. Much recent progress has been made on the legal entity identification front as a result of the combined work…
SIX Telekurs and FinancialCAD Extend Data and Analytics Partnership
SIX Telekurs, a leading financial information provider, and FINCAD, a provider of industry standard financial analytics, are pleased to announce that they have signed agreements to extend their long-standing partnership. The extended relationship allows FINCAD’s customers to take advantage of SIX Telekurs’ rich database of global securities prices in FINCAD’s online derivatives valuation service,…
Euroclear Bank to Open Dubai Office
Euroclear Bank, the international central securities depository (ICSD), will open a representative office in Dubai, further strengthening its long-standing commitment to Middle Eastern clients. The office located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) will have space for 10 employees and will be headed by Bernard Ferran, Director and Regional Head. He takes…
Hedge Fund Standards Board Appoints Dame Amelia Fawcett as Chairman
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has appointed Dame Amelia Fawcett as its new Chairman. A former Non-Executive Director of the Bank of England and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley International, Dame Amelia will take up the post on 1st July 2011. She succeeds Sir Andrew Large who has been interim Chairman since last December…
Markit to Provide First CFD Trade Reporting System to Saxo Bank
Markit, a leading, global financial information services company, today announced that Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, will begin to report its contract for difference (CFD) trades via Markit BOAT, the trade reporting platform, in September 2011. Saxo Bank will become the first financial institution to report its CFDs on Single Stock trades…