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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…
Cadis on Course to Sign Seven New Clients This Quarter, Says Simpson
Business has picked up for the EDM vendor community at large over the last six or so months (just look at GoldenSource’s recently reported figures for example) and Simpson indicates that from November onwards Cadis has also witnessed a significant uptick in business. In fact, the vendor is on course to sign up seven new…
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…
Q&A: Activ Financial’s Frank Piasecki on Growth in 2010 and 2011
Activ Financial Systems had a busy year in 2010, adding customers, launching updated products and building out its internal network. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com talked to the company’s president and co-founder Frank Piasecki to find out more. Q: Activ added 90+ customers in 2010. Can you clarify that, and point to any key growth areas? A: Activ saw…
UBS Global Asset Management is Seeking Synergies Between Data Management and the NAV Calculation Process
As well as working towards a centralised EDM solution, UBS Global Asset Management is also seeking synergies between its reference data management process and its net asset value (NAV) calculation function, according to Markus Kohn, head of data management for the EMEA region at the buy side firm. Speaking at last week’s TSAM conference, he…
DST Global Solutions’ Gallacher Discusses Blueprinting Approach to Data with Anova Platform, New Client Win
DST Global Solutions launched its middle office data management and analytics platform Anova towards the end of last year and has since been working on the migration of its client base onto the new platform and has bagged its first client, according to Des Gallacher, global head of data management and analytics solutions for the…