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DTCC Further Expands Public Release of Credit Default Swap Data Registered in its Global Trade Repository
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) today further expanded its public release of credit default swap (CDS) data, providing more detailed market segmentation information on the largest corporate and sovereign CDS (single named reference entities) registered in its Trade Information Warehouse’s (Warehouse) global repository. This extension of the data posted on DTCC’s website will…
Sapient Global Markets Partners with Numerix to Provide Integrated Pricing and Analytic Solutions for the Financial and Commodities Markets
Sapient Global Markets, part of Sapient and a provider of services to today’s institutional financial and commodity markets participants, and Numerix, a provider of cross asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, today announced a global partnership agreement to provide combined capabilities to clients of both organisations. From front office to back, Numerix analytics…
Pricing Partners Becomes the Provider of Derivatives Revaluation for Leading American Investment Bank
Pricing Partners announced today that one of the two leading American investment bank, that wished to remain anonymous, chose its internet derivatives valuation platform Price-it Online to provide independent revaluation for its equity and interest rates derivatives. Eric Benhamou, CEO of Pricing Partners adds: “Becoming the provider of independent valuation for a one of the…
Marketing Manager Mott Departs CMA, Mazzone Assumes Duties
It seems to be the season for people moves; what with the changes going on at Xtrakter and this week’s departure of Credit Market Analysis’ (CMA) marketing manager Simon Mott. After two and a half years at the credit derivatives data provider and a month after the management changeover from outgoing CEO Laurent Paulhac to ex-Icap…
Vendor Partnerships Key to Success in Tackling KYC and Entity Data Challenge, Says GoldTier’s Tebaldi
The most effective manner in which to tackle the challenge of entity data management and meeting know your customer (KYC) requirements is by opting for a best of breed vendor approach, according to Matthew Tebaldi, president of client onboarding and KYC data management solution vendor GoldTier. To this end, the vendor has teamed up with…
XSP Launches ASP Global Corporate Actions Solution in AsiaPac
XSP, a vendor of corporate actions software, announced today that it has launched an application service provider (ASP) offering of its flagship XSP v5 corporate actions solution on the Decillion Group platform. Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider and operator of the largest Swift Service Bureau in the AsiaPac region, formed a partnership with…
Only 26% of 450 Respondents to Oracle’s European Survey Confident in Data Management Systems’ Ability to Support Risk Function
Reference Data Review has noted on a number of occasions that data quality and data management issues lie at the heart of the risk management and compliance challenge and recent research by IT system vendor Oracle is a case in point, which indicates that only 26% of the 450 European respondents to the survey were confident…
Next Year’s European Data Privacy Reforms Could Potentially Have a Significant Impact on Data Storage and Access
The UK government has this month issued a call for evidence on the current European data protection legislative framework, ahead of European-wide negotiations on an update of the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC due at the start of next year. Reforms could potentially have a significant impact on the data storage and access requirements for…
Delta RDF Implementation on Track to Deliver Data Vendor Feed Plug and Play Functionality, Says Algorithmics’ Orde
Risk management solution vendor Algorithmics’ decision to roll out First Derivatives’ Delta Reference Data Factory as its new core reference data engine was driven by a desire to reduce new client implementation times and to allow for a more plug and play approach to changing existing customers’ data feeds, according to Roger Orde, senior director of…
Asset Control to Provide Centralised Data Management for The Capital Group
Asset Control recently entered into an agreement with the Capital Group Companies, an investment management organisation, to provide financial data management solutions through Asset Control’s AC Plus. The Capital Group will use AC Plus as part of its plan to upgrade middle and back office technologies to increase operational efficiencies and business flexibility. AC Plus…