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Principia Adds S&P Structured Finance Evalutions
Principia has added Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations structured finance evaluated pricing service to its Principia Structured Finance Platform. The addition is aimed at enhancing the platform’s cross-asset monitoring, end-of-day processing and risk management capabilities.
Can Corporate Actions Automate Without Wave of Regulatory Stick?
Despite a myriad of available software solutions aimed at automating corporate actions processing, industry participants can relish the prospect of unreliable data and manually intensive processing for some time to come. That’s among the findings of new research from TowerGroup that suggests that corporate actions processing remains one of the major roadblocks standing in the…
Reuters Taps Nelson for DataScope Select in Asia
Reuters has relocated Barnaby Nelson to Hong Kong, from London, to head up its DataSelect initiative in Asia. Nelson, previously part of the DataScope team in London, will lead a team of five salespeople and one product specialist. His former role in Europe is being covered by Oliver Smith, who recently joined Reuters from Bloomberg,…
Harcourt Joins Standard & Poor’s from FT Interactive Data
Steven Harcourt has joined Standard & Poor’s European Structured Finance team, as senior structured finance evaluator, after spending seven years at FT Interactive Data and four years at Merrill Lynch. Harcourt will continue to develop the team’s new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model, reporting to Peter Jones, director of securities evaluations at Standard & Poor’s in…
Mondas Names King, Ryan to Radica Caps Sales Team
Tim King and Dominic Ryan have joined Mondas as sales manager and sales executive, respectively. “Both Tim and Dominic have extensive experience in sales with organisations including the London Stock Exchange, Dow Jones, Thomson Financial and Phillips Electronics, and the high level of expertise we need for them to play a leading part in our…
Thomson Sets Central Role for QAI Platform In Reference Data Delivery Strategy
Thomson Financial’s acquisition of Quantitative Analytics Inc. (QAI), which closed earlier this year, gave the company a product aimed squarely at the quantitative analyst marketplace. But the QAI platform is destined to play a more significant role as the company crystallizes its strategy for distribution of reference data. Thomson Financial has spent the past couple…
FT Interactive Data Adds Pricing to Temenos T24
Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data has agreed to make its pricing, evaluations, corporate actions and reference data available via banking systems provider Temenos’s T24 system. As part of the arrangement T24 clients will also be able to access FT Interactive European Union Savings Directive (EUSD) data, which is fully integrated with the Temenos EU…
TAP Launches Publisher Module for Real-Time Reference Data…
TAP Solutions has released TAPMaster Publisher, a new module for its data management platform that provides real-time detection and notification of changes to reference data. The add-on module reads incoming streams of vendor data as it arrives at the client site, detects changes from previous values, and publishes those changes to the applications and users…
FT Interactive Data Adds CDS Index Trade Valuations
Interactive Data Corp.’s FT Interactive Data subsidiary has added credit default swap index trades to the range of derivatives valuations it provides through its new relationship with Markit Group. FT Interactive Data’s new CDS index valuation service provides independent valuations of CDS trades linked to the Dow Jones CDX and iTraxx indices through an add-on…
Reuters Expands DataScope’s Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing Service
Reuters has expanded its Reuters DataScope Fixed Income evaluated pricing service to include 12 new currencies from Europe, Africa, Asia and emerging markets. The new currencies are: Danish Krone, Swedish Krona, Norwegian Kroner, Iceland Krona, Hungarian Forint, Polish New Zloty, Czech Koruna, Slovak Koruna, Russian Rouble, Turkish Lira, South African Rand, and Japanese Yen.