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Mark to Market Launches Derivatives Valuations Service
A newly formed company, Mark to Market, is introducing an independent real-time valuation service for financial products from cash loans and deposits through to complex derivatives. The m2m online service has been launched in response to the recent developments in accounting and reporting requirements, in particular the International Accounting Standard 39 (IAS39) and U.S. Financial…
Standard & Poor’s Expands Valuations Via Exclusive Arrangement with CSV
Hot on the heels of its new evaluated pricing service for the European structured finance marketplace, Standard & Poor’s has struck an exclusive alliance with New York-based Complex Security Valuations Inc. (CSV) to provide valuations for complex, illiquid and hard-to-value securities. The deal will expand both companies’ offerings in the space, and establish a combined…
Bloomberg Adopts Stealth Approach to Add Evaluated Pricing Service to Data Arsenal
Acknowledging its lack of reliable pricing data for illiquid securities, Bloomberg is quietly building a team of analysts in preparation for a product launch in the pricing evaluations business. The move follows the lead of long-time evaluations provider Interactive Data Corp. (FT Interactive Data) and recent moves by Reuters, Standard & Poor’s and others, and…
Role Swapping at Xenomorph
Greg Johnson has risen to become chief executive officer of data and decision support platform provider Xenomorph. The company’s former CEO and co-founder Brian Sentance has taken on the marketing role. The role swapping was decided by the four founders, who have majority ownership of the company and all of whom, says Sentance, “Look to…
FTID Enters Business Entity Data Fray with Avox Deal
Getting in on the business entity data act, FT Interactive Data Europe has teamed up with Avox (formerly known as Azdex) to link issue to issuer and parent data. The deal brings them into the competitive realm of the likes of the Crosswalk joint venture and CounterpartyLink, and is in direct response to yet another…
Reuters Taps Adsatis/Credit Dimensions’ Hodgson for Client Data Role
Reuters has appointed Jonathan Hodgson as product business owner for counterparty & compliance data. He was previously business development director at Adsatis, and also acted as European business development director for Adsatis’s joint venture company, Credit Dimensions, a supplier of counterparty data management services to the banking community. He reports to Tim Shortland, global head…
’Tis the season for evaluations…
Spring is in the air – well it certainly is down in the South West of France where this issue comes to you from. And ’tis the season to be excited about pricing evaluations it seems. Just a quick glance at this month’s table of contents will show how this space is really hotting up….
Xcitek Names Villardi to XSP Client Relationship Role
Daniel Villardi, Sr. has joined Xcitek as account relationship manager for its flagship corporate actions software solution, XSP. He was previously responsible for corporate actions processing at the Bank of New York. Villardi will report to Frank Piraino, senior vice president, XSP client relationship management and sales operations, and will be responsible for post-implementation relations…
Exchange Data and CounterpartyLink Join Forces with New Service
Exchange Data International (EDI) and CounterpartyLink (CPL) have joined forces to provide an integrated data service providing EDI’s corporate actions and reference data linked to and supplemented by legal entity data from CounterpartyLink. The new service is designed to help financial institutions comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulations, and puts…
SunGard’s Fame Taps Garland for Energy Sales
SunGard has named Jim Garland sales director, Americas, for its Fame Energy managed data solutions business. Based in Houston, Garland will be responsible for generating new business and expanding the North and South American presence for its Fame Energy managed data services.