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Netik’s Mason Elaborates on Plans for CorrectNet Integration
In its first acquisition since its management shakeup last year, Netik recently bagged client reporting and data distribution focused vendor CorrectNet, in a move that aims to bolster its end to end data management capabilities. John Mason, who was appointed chief operating officer of the vendor in August last year, explains that the two vendors…
Project Brokers Signs Global Deal With Noad
Project Brokers, the global business intelligence (BI) consultancy, has signed a deal with NOAD, the leading provider of high-performance, enterprise platform management software, to become its only Global Services & Reseller Partner. The partnership brings NOAD’s market-leading enterprise change management software solutions into Project Brokers’ BI portfolio. NOAD’s EQM product suite supports QlikTech’s QlikView BI…
ISDA Releases 2011 Operations Benchmarking Survey Results
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today announced the publication of its 2011 Operations Benchmarking Survey. This publication includes results from G14 respondents as of year-end 2010, and follows the release of survey highlights at ISDA’s 26th Annual General meeting in April. The survey notes the continuing decrease in confirmations outstanding, particularly among…
CFTC Plans 8 June Roundtable to Discuss Instrument Identification Standards
In keeping with its push to keep data standardisation high on the industry agenda and the establishment of a new regulator subcommittee on the subject earlier this month, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has indicated that it will be conducting a public roundtable on 8 June to discuss the technical aspects of the introduction…
Q&A: Todd Watkins of NYSE Technologies on Managing Options Data
Anyone who is familiar with the OPRA option data feed and associated message rates understands the challenges of dealing with options market data. NYSE Technologies has just introduced its Filtered Options Feed, designed to address some of those challenges. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to Todd Watkins, product manager at the data and trading technology vendor, to find…
Quantifi Survey Reveals Industry-Wide Move to Overhaul Counterparty Risk Systems
Quantifi, a leading provider of analytics, trading and risk management solutions for the global capital markets, today announced the preliminary findings of its counterparty credit risk survey. Quantifi recently participated in the Global Derivatives and Risk Management conference in Paris and surveyed a cross section of financial firms to gain insight into the various approaches…
DTCC’s Thompson Cautions on Potential Data Sharing Issues Due to Furore Over Dodd Frank’s Extraterritoriality
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) managing director and general counsel Larry Thompson has this week cautioned that data sharing arrangements between regulators could be disrupted by the legislative language of Dodd Frank and the global pushback on US extraterritoriality. This issue is of particular concern for DTCC given its intent to act as…
Panellists Highlight the “Shotgun Wedding” of Data Management and Risk Management at DMRAV in NYC
The data management and risk functions of financial institutions have become subject to a “shotgun wedding of sorts”, as firms aim to tackle their underlying data quality issues in the post-crisis environment, according to panellists at last week’s A-Team Group Data Management for Risk, Analytics and Valuations (DMRAV) conference in NYC (see details of the…
Pricing Partners Speeds up the Computation of the Livret A in its Inflation Derivatives Module
Pricing Partners announced today that it has improved the computation speed of the Livret A in the inflation module of its derivatives pricing analytics and has extended the number of possibilities to compute the French inflation index. Following a review of the Livret A computation, Pricing Partners has upgraded the computation method to support the…
BVI’s Siebel Elaborates on Why EC’s Current Agreement with S&P on US ISINs Could Hold Back Systemic Risk Monitoring Efforts
If further action is not taken with regards to ensuring the licensing issues around Standard & Poor’s US ISIN practices for European firms are tackled (as well as the pricing issues) then regulators may be held back in their systemic risk monitoring activities, according to Rudolf Siebel, managing director who is responsible for legal and…