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CECA Extends Use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics for Valuing Complex Derivatives
Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), the National Association of Spanish Savings Banks, is expanding its use of SunGard’s FastVal Analytics, a comprehensive suite of derivatives pricing models used by international financial institutions for derivatives pricing and structuring, risk management, model validation and benchmarking. The extended use of FastVal will help the association’s financial…
Reference Data Review on Securities Matching from the Sibos 2010 Opening Plenary
One of Swift’s biggest pushes for the securities sector as part of its new 2015 strategy is in the securities matching services space. During the Sibos 2010 opening plenary, Swift played the following video, demonstrating industry perspectives on this initiative. Reference Data Review elaborated on the utility versus competitive approach. Video of 16535038
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Systems
We’ve evolved: Spreadsheets are no longer the primary method for managing valuations pricing! So how are financial institutions managing pricing validation? Video 4 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 5 minutes 39 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Valuations Frequency
A look at the current frequency of valuing assets and why there is a trend toward increased frequency and a move towards intraday valuations. Video 3 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 6 minutes 21 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Vendor Requirements
What do institutions want from their vendors, and what do they think about how they are stacking up? A discussion of the survey scores, with focus on data quality and transparency. Video 2 of 5 from the Interactive Data valuations data seminar, moderated by A-Team Group. Running time: 7 minutes 33 seconds
A-Team Valuations Performance Benchmarking Drivers
Intro to the event and valuations performance benchmarking by moderator Angela Wilbraham, A-Team’s CEO, introduction to our panellists, and discussion about the drivers for valuations data spend that our buy-side institutions and securities services firms’ survey participants are responding to. In particular, a focus on the types of regulations and the type of impact they…
A-Team Group Interview about Valuations Data Benchmarking Results
A three minute overview about the valuations data seminar, organised by Interactive Data and moderated by A-Team Group, and the findings from A-Team’s recent performance benchmarking survey on valuations data. Andrew Delaney discusses the focus with A-Team’s CEO Angela Wilbraham. Running time: 3 minutes 4 seconds
SunGard’s Hug Talks up the Need for an Integrated Framework for Risk and Capital Management
There is a gradual change going on across the industry from considering compliance with the Basel framework as a box ticking exercise to using these underlying risk management practices as an opportunity to more intelligently allocate capital, conduct profitability analyses and make better business decisions, according to Andi Hug, general manager for SunGard’s Ambit Risk…
ECB’s Trichet on the Importance of Stats: Reading from the Ref Data Utility Hymn Sheet?
Last month, European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet delivered the opening address to the central bank’s own conference on statistics and much of his speech was strangely familiar. Referring directly to the need for a “public reference data utility” that could provide “standardised information on instruments and entities that would be operated on the…
DTCC’s Lancaster Joins Swift as MD of Securities for the Americas
Following more than six years as vice president of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Global Corporate Actions (GCA) business unit, earlier this year Brett Lancaster joined industry network operator Swift as its new managing director of Securities for the Americas region. In line with his work alongside Swift and XBRL US in the…