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Reval Adds Solution Consultants in North America
With treasurers taking on more risk and regulatory initiatives since the global financial crisis, Reval, a provider of software as a service (SaaS) solutions for corporate financial risk management, announced today that it has hired three new solution consultants in North America. The new hires join Reval’s global team of experts guiding treasurers in hedging…
Princeton Financial Systems Automates KID Creation for Financial Institutions
Princeton Financial Systems (PFS) today announced Switzerland based companies, Vontobel and Swisscanto recently joined a growing list of European institutions to use PFS’ solutions to support their Key Investor Information Documents (KID) creation process. PFS customers can organise and automate this process in accordance with current regulatory standards, which ranges from data provision to the…
Trasset International Enters into a Partnership Agreement with StatPro on Risk Management
StatPro Group plc, a provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global asset management industry, today announces that Trasset International, an international software solution provider for banks and financial institutions has signed a partnership agreement to integrate the StatPro Risk Service into the Trasset banking platform. Trasset has operations in over 19…
RBC Dexia Appoints New Managing Director for Italy
RBC Dexia Investor Services has appointed Mauro Dognini as managing director for Italy, subject to regulatory approval. He will report to Tony Johnson, global head, sales and distribution. Dognini will be responsible for local market strategy, leading the company’s integrated sales, relationship and strategic client management model in Italy. He will also chair RBC Dexia’s…
ING Makes Key Appointments in EMEA Research
ING has made a series of senior promotions and hires in its Financial Markets Research department. Simon Quijano-Evans joins on 1 May as head of research and chief economist for Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa. His remit is to cover the entirety of ING’s EMEA research activities located in CEE, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and…
Hana Daetoo Securities Deploys Pricing Partners’ Derivatives Pricing Solutions
Pricing Partners announced today that Hana Daetoo Securities has chosen Pricing Partners’ derivatives pricing solutions, Price-it Excel. Hana Daetoo Securities is the investment banking subsidiary of Hana Financial Group. The agreement was signed through its regional distribution partner Belatos. Hana Daetoo Securities will deploy Pricing Partners’ flagship derivatives pricing engine, Price-it Excel, for its trading…
T+2 = Data Standardisation on the Agenda for Europe
The gradual move towards T+2 settlement in Europe, ahead of the planned launch of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Target2-Securities (T2S) platform in September 2014, is further raising the profile of data standards in areas such as standing settlement instructions (SSIs), legal entity identification and instrument identification. A recent webinar organised by post-trade specialist Omgeo…
SunGard Snaps up ValueLink Information Services, Morgan Discusses Long Term Integration into Asset Arena
Ever-acquisitive SunGard has snapped up yet another small vendor in its bid to get in on the data quality and validation solution investment action going on within the buy side. Doug Morgan, president of SunGard’s Institutional Asset Management business, explains the details of the ValueLink acquisition to Reference Data Review. Morgan indicates that the discussions between…
Sage and Talend Form Partnership to Boost Sage ERP X3 Interoperability Performances
Sage, a business management software provider and Talend, the worldwide leader in open source integration solutions, today announced the completion of a partnership, which will integrate Talend’s integration technologies with Sage ERP X3, Sage plc’s global ERP solution aimed at medium sized companies. Thanks to this global partnership, Sage ERP X3 customers will benefit from…
Swift’s Janssens on its Bid to be the OFR Supported Legal Entity ID Registration Authority
Swift may have backed away from pushing a reworked version of its Bank Identifier Code (BIC) as a legal entity identifier for the purposes of the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), but that does not mean it is out of the running as a standards issuer in the context of a global reference data…