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Back Office Exec Registration on the Cards for Broker-Dealers, But What Impact Will it Have on Data Management?
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has this month announced that it will be pushing ahead with its proposals to introduce registration requirements for back office operations execs within broker-dealer firms. But what will be the financial and practical impact on these back office functions, including data management and potentially outsourced operations roles, in the…
Q&A: Craig Betts of Solace Systems on Latency Beyond Algo Trading
Low latency messaging use is expanding beyond traditional algorithmic trading applications to address wider business requirements. Meanwhile, issues such as reliability, manageability and cost are becoming more visible. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com discussed low-latency messaging directions – and messaging directions in general – with Craig Betts, CEO of Solace Systems. Q: You recently announced a deal with the…
A Lack of Choice
A dominant theme from this week’s A-Team Group and SmartStream roundtable on data management challenges for the buy side in 2011 was the lack of viable alternatives in the market when it comes to both standards and data management industry groups or associations to join. A case in point was raised by a member of…
ESMA Praises Joined up Approach to Valuations and Risk Management in IAS 39 Hedge Accounting Changes
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent a letter to the head of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) regarding its views and concerns about incoming hedge accounting changes that are included in the recent exposure draft on IAS 39. ESMA indicates in the letter that the proposals will allow for a more…
SIX Telekurs in Partnership with TFG Systems
SIX Telekurs is partnering with TFG Systems, a provider of real time risk and portfolio management software, to deliver real-time and historical financial data to their trading and risk management platform TFG Complete. SIX Telekurs will provide real-time and pricing data via their apiD product to TFG Systems’ flagship product TFG Complete which allows real…
Opinion: Identifying Portfolio Exposures with Cross Reference Data
By Jackson Griffith, Director of Enterprise Solutions, S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, McGraw-Hill Financial When a negative market event occurs, risk managers need to quickly determine their exposure to it and the impact it may have on their portfolio. Exposure can come in many forms and may not be obvious at first glance. For example,…
Pricing Partners Released a First Version of the Generic Malliavin Weightings for Greeks in MC and AMC
Pricing Partners announced today to provide a first version of the generic Malliavin Weightings for Greeks in Monte Carlo and American Monte Carlo. Pricing Partners is the first company to provide a generic Malliavin weighting for Greeks in Monte Carlo and American Monte Carlo. This should allow its clients to use less simulation paths to…
CMA Launches Bond Pricing Service for Corporate and Emerging Market Government Bonds
Today CMA launched CMA Datavision Bonds, a service providing daily independent pricing and market metrics for corporate, convertible and emerging market government bonds. CMA Datavision Bonds brings much sought after quality and transparency to bond pricing data, particularly valuable for illiquid bonds, where there can be large variations in pricing. CMA achieves this by applying…
Knock on Effect
The close link between data quality and better risk management has come under the spotlight in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and the ensuing regulatory crackdown on financial markets. Regulators such as the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have even been making noises…
Asset Control’s AC Plus Adopted by Scotiabank for Reference Data Management and Pricing
Asset Control today announced that Scotiabank – headquartered in Toronto, Canada – is going live with the AC Plus financial data management solution for managing security reference data and end of day pricing. Scotiabank selected AC Plus to centralise security master and end of day pricing data content to support core business applications. The Phase…