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Pricing Partners Strengthens its Commodity Module with Automatic Seasonality Computation
Pricing Partners, the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models for valuations of derivatives and structured products, announced today that its commodity pricing library, Price-it, now contains automatic detection of seasonality in commodity module. Commodity futures prices especially on energy exhibit strong seasonality. The Pricing Partners library now automatically detects and calculates…
DataArt Announces its Role in Completing Development for XSP
DataArt, a high-end software development company headquartered in New York with R&D centers in Eastern Europe today announced it has completed enhancements for XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions software. The XSP v5 platform is the state-of-the-art solution from XSP developed to automate each step in the processing of global Corporate Actions….
Royal Bank of Scotland Centralises Reference Data Using SmartCo DataHub
Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Banking & Markets (GBM) group has gone live with SmartCo’s DataHub enterprise data management platform. GBM is using the system to centralise and manage all the security reference data and end-of-day pricing, creating a hub that will serve all bank departments. GBM selected DataHub after a period of extensive market…
StatPro Discovers Solution to the Liquidity Risk Paradox
StatPro Group, a leading provider of portfolio analysis and asset valuation services for the global asset management industry, announces a major breakthrough in its risk measurement research. StatPro has designed an innovative approach to measuring market liquidity risk that does not rely only on observed bid, ask and volumes. Instead, factors such as market capitalisation,…
DClear Reference Data Services Gain Significant Momentum a Year on From their Launch
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced significant progress for its DClear business, a year after its launch. With reference data on the agenda again at this year’s Sibos conference, a utility service model providing clean, consistent reference data as a service has come to the fore as the industry wrestles with data…
Cadis Solvency II Risk Platform Answer to Group-Wide Compliance
Cadis, the global EDM specialist, today announced its Solvency II risk platform. The platform will provide insurers with the confidence of complete data governance lineage and the level of transparency, visibility and data quality being demanded by tough regulator scrutiny. Daniel Simpson, CEO of Cadis said: “The capital adequacy requirement of Solvency II is the…
DTCC and SWIFT Launch ISO 20022 Corporate Actions Messaging Pilot Program
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT, the financial messaging provider for more than 9,500 financial institutions and corporations in 209 countries, announced today that Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (BBH) has agreed to participate in a new ISO 20022 corporate actions messaging pilot program. The pilot program being run by DTCC will…
Fitch Solutions Appoints Rob Shiell to its Strategic Partnership Team
Fitch Solutions is pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Shiell as a Director in its Strategic Partnership team. Rob will be responsible for further developing partnerships with companies in the fund administration and custodian sector across the EMEA region, offering them bespoke solutions to help integrate Fitch data into their own content and technology…
XSP and Decillion Group Has Been Selected by Daiwa Capital Markets for Global Corporate Actions Processing
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions software, announced today at SIBOS 2010 that Daiwa Capital Markets has selected the XSP v5 solution to automate its Corporate Actions processing via the Decillion Group platform. Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider and operator of the largest SWIFT Service Bureau in the APAC region,…
Go East Young Man
They say timing is everything, so perhaps it was fortuitous that I managed to catch up with David Stanton – Cable & Wireless Worldwide’s man in Singapore – just a few days before news of Singapore Exchange’s interest in the Australian Stock Exchange hit the wires. But as I’ve noted here in the past few…