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TD Securities Prime Brokerage Selects Eagle Platform
TD Securities’ Prime Brokerage group has selected Eagle Investment Systems Corp.’s Pace data hub and portfolio management system as part of an overhaul of its systems to support hedge fund and institutional asset management customers. Aside from Pace, TD Securities will also implement Eagle’s Star investment accounting system and its Performance investment performance measurement suite….
J.P. Morgan Investor Services Unveils Valuations for OTC Derivatives
J.P. Morgan Investor Services has launched a valuation service for over-the-counter derivatives. The new service will allow the custodian’s clients to value instruments ranging from vanilla interest-rate swaps to the most exotic structured derivatives. The service is based on Reech FastVal, a derivatives valuations and risk management system from SunGard Reech.
GSTPA Technology Assets to Be Auctioned Off Next Month
The technology assets of the failed GSTPA post-trade processing consortium are to be auctioned by liquidators in Switzerland on September 10. The auction will be handled by Buergi & Naegeli, and interested parties are invited to contact the firm’s Zurich offices. Developers of centralized trade processing utilities, including Financial Models Co., Omgeo and SunGard have…
ValueLink to Offer EuroMTS Delayed Price Data
ValueLink Information Services is to offer delayed price information from the EuroMTS trading platform for European benchmark government bonds. The company has become the first to secure a delayed data license for from EuroMTS.
NFS Unveils Data Interface for Pricing Services
Nordic Financial Systems (NFS), a provider of technical and business integration services to the treasury industry, has launched Market Information Interface, which allows users of its Finance KIT to receive end-of-day pricing data from vendors including Reuters and Bloomberg for portfolio valuation and risk measurement purposes. According to NFS, MII – developed in conjunction with…
Pool-Side Reading for Reference Data Ravers
Your publisher and editor are honoured this issue to be carrying contributions from two of the leading lights of the reference data community. In what will become a regular feature, Tony Kirby, founder of the Reference Data User Group (RDUG) brings us completely up to date with the workings of the various standards working groups….
U.K. Asset Manager Insight Set to Go Live with Citadel’s Data Management Platform
U.K. asset management firm Insight Investment is about to go live with a reference data management infrastructure from Citadel Associates. The implementation will make Citadel’s Cadis the data management infrastructure underpinning Insight’s growing derivatives operations. Insight – formed through a merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and the subsequent acquisition of Rothschild Asset Management…
Rolfe & Nolan Adds Parker to European Sales Team
Rolfe & Nolan has added Gavin Parker to its European sales team, with a focus on order management solutions. He was previously managing director at Real Time Trading Systems and was IT director at Fortis Bank. Parker will report to Bill Herder, senior vice president, order management, and will be based in London.
SEI Taps Rodgers for Institutional Sales in Europe
SEI Investments has named Greg Rodgers director, institutional sales, for Continental Europe, based in London. The appointment marks the company’s continuing expansion in Europe. SEI recently opened offices in Germany and the Netherlands, and has offices in the U.K. and France. Rodgers will work with Bart Heenk, managing director for the Netherlands, and Stephan Romer,…
S&P Risk Solutions Hires Bar-Or, Davies for Product, Business Development
Standard & Poor’s Risk Solutions has named Yuval D. Bar-Or global head of product management and development, and Darren K. Davies managing director for North American business development, based in New York. Bar-Or will be responsible for the evolution and deployment of credit risk products, and will report to Roy Taub, executive managing director of…