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Information Mosaic’s O’Donnell Talks up ING’s Deployment of IMConnecting
Information Mosaic used this year’s Sibos as the platform to launch its new IMConnecting solution, which purports to provide a next gen interface to the post-trade environment for front office users and clients with its handheld device compatibility. Custody bank ING is the first to implement the solution in beta form and will install it…
Principia Exposes Gaps in Structured Finance Investors’ Risk Oversight as ABS and MBS Trading Increases
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance investments, today announced the findings of its structured finance investor due diligence survey. The results highlight increasing investor and issuer confidence in securitisation as an asset class, with 60% of investors stating they would increase their activity within the next 12 months….
SuperDerivatives and Algorithmics to Deliver Exceptional Risk Management Across OTC Derivatives to the Buy and Sell Side
SuperDerivatives (SD), the derivatives benchmark and multi asset front office system, has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Algorithmics, a provider of risk solutions, to offer banks, funds and asset managers a comprehensive solution to improve their risk management capabilities. The collaboration, which is subject to final contract, includes two elements: integrated data for…
Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Introduces TrilliumApps Online Applications Library
Trillium Software officially introduced today its TrilliumApps online business rules and applications library, a web-based collection of pre-developed information quality rules, processes and full workflows that can be easily downloaded at no cost and snapped into existing Trillium Software System environments. TrilliumApps has been built leveraging the broad and deep experience of Trillium Software consultants…
BarCap’s Data Quality Head Nagle to Join Deutsche Bank Later This Month
Current global head of data quality at Barclays Capital Llew Nagle is soon to depart for data pastures new, when he joins Deutsche Bank later this month in a similar role. Nagle has been with BarCap since 2001 and earlier this year was promoted to the brand new role of head of data quality. Over…
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…