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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…
Adam Brill Joins XSP as Business Analyst
XSP, the global leader in automated end-to-end Corporate Actions solutions, announced today that Adam Brill has joined the Company as Business Analyst. Based in New York, Brill will be responsible for supporting the growing client base for the XSP® Corporate Actions software platform. This appointment is in response to XSP’s expanding Professional Services offering and…
Royal Bank of Scotland Selects SmartCo for Centralized Securities Reference and Price Data Management
SmartCo, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management software solutions for the financial industry, is pleased to announce that the Royal Bank of Scotland Global Banking & Markets (GBM) has gone live with its innovative data management software solution, SmartCo DataHub. GBM intends to use SmartCo DataHub to centralize and manage all the security reference…
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…