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Data Infrastructure and Corporate Actions Sibos Panels Highlight Barriers to Standardisation, Appetite for Regulatory Compulsion
The numerous challenges standing in the way of establishing industry wide data infrastructures such as data repositories for the OTC markets and achieving greater standardisation of the corporate actions space were elaborated upon by a number of speakers at this year’s Sibos. The challenge of standardising this data on a firm wide level is multiplied…
iPads, Apps and Tweets, Oh My!
One of the most notable things about this year’s Sibos, on both the exhibition floor and in the sessions, was the prevalence of mobile technology. Many of the vendors and banks in attendance were touting their new apps to bring the middle and back office into the 21st century. Whether it was the ability to…
The Costanza Complex (Or, Is FinTech Facing a Double-Dip?)
Fans of TV’s Seinfeld will surely recall the episode in which Jerry’s friend George Costanza gets caught double-dipping his chip in the dip at a funeral reception. It’s this that immediately springs to mind when commentators suggest we are facing a double-dip recession. But of course, there would be nothing amusing about such an outcome….
CQG Integrates with FOW TRADEdata Xymbology
FOW TRADEdata announced today the integration of CQG instrument codes into its Xymbology product for the futures and options market. Xymbology is an identifier mapping service for exchange-traded futures and options contracts. CQG is a provider of integrated order execution, charting, and analytics for global, electronically traded futures markets. CQG offers real-time and historical data…
Strategic Acquisitions, Cost Cutting and Corporate Actions Top the Bill at Sibos
Last week’s annual Swift user conference in Amsterdam saw the messaging network operator focus on a range of items central to its new 2015 strategy (see our video interview with Swift’s managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Nordics Arun Aggarwal on the subject earlier this year), including cost saving opportunities, strategic acquisitions of…
Interactive Data Provides Wide Range of US Bond Data to iPortfolio Solutions
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that it is delivering a wide range of US bonds data to iPortfolio Solutions. iPortfolio (formerly MuniWorks) provides portfolio analytics and ancillary information on bonds issued in the US to investment product professionals, advisors and individual investors via a secure…
SIX Telekurs and Expersoft Systems Announce Strategic Partnership
SIX Telekurs has signed a strategic partnership with Expersoft Systems, a global vendor of portfolio and wealth management platform solutions. The agreement allows the two companies to combine their cutting edge solutions, thereby offering small and medium sized independent providers of wealth management services for high net worth individuals (HNWI) and institutional clients a unique…
GoldenSource RiskHub to Help Financial Firms Achieve a Holistic View of Market, Credit, Liquidity and Counterparty Risk
GoldenSource, a provider of data management solutions for risk mitigation, today announced RiskHub, a suite of products to help risk professionals implement highly automated, timely and cost effective risk management strategies. With firms pushed to increase transparency of their risk and data governance and meet more stringent regulatory requirements, GoldenSource RiskHub provides a flexible and…
Taking a Stand on Standards
This year’s Sibos was certainly not short of discussions about standards, but the actual physical location of the Standards Forum sessions (next to the Swift booth and beside the equally noisy Innotribe stand) was representative of the danger that Swift faces in this space: getting its message drowned out by background noise. The communication about…
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,…