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Eagle Offers Data Integration Services to Further Streamline Clients’ Implementation
Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, announced today that it now offers data integration services, a new service option within its hosted offering, Eagle ACCESS. This provides clients with reduced risk and shortened implementation timeframes by including data integration to support deployments of Eagle’s accounting and…
Bombay Stock Exchange Opts for Swift’s Corporate Action Service, Four Custodians Already on Board
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has rolled out Swift’s corporate actions service to provide custodians in the Indian and international market with automated data on Indian corporate actions events. Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank, Citibank and HSBC have thus far signed up for the service, which went live in May, and a number of other…
EBF Highlights Concerns About CCPs and Systemic Risk in its Feedback to Commission’s Market Infrastructure Reforms
There has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of mandating clearing for OTC derivatives and the comments received so far by the European Commission on the subject have tended to focus on a proportional, rather than broad brush, approach to the reforms. The European Banking Federation’s (EBF) response, for example, has been…
Interactive Data Expands Evaluated Pricing Offerings
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics, and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has broadened its evaluated pricing offerings for clients. Recent enhancements to the evaluated pricing coverage include: New evaluations coverage: for more than 10,000 fixed income instruments in the past month, including newly-issued securities…
RBC Dexia Survey Indicates That 64% of Italian Asset Managers Planning to Invest in Risk Management
The Italian asset management community is well apprised of the risk management challenges it faces as a result of the incoming Bank of Italy rules relating to these firms’ governance structures, but it still has a long way to go before it is ready, according to a recent survey conducted by custodian bank RBC Dexia….
Capital IQ Opens New Office in Dubai
Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor’s business and a leading provider of comprehensive fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions, announced today that it is expanding its presence in the EMEA region with the opening of an office in Dubai, UAE. The Capital IQ platform is a web and Excel-based research product that combines deep…
GoldenSource’s Stock and Meriton Discuss Potential to be a Direct Technology Provider to the Office of Financial Research
Given that the Office of Financial Research has been a hotly debated topic within the industry of late (even if the regulatory community has been rather quiet on the subject), it is no surprise that vendors are keen to offer their services to those charged with establishing such a data utility. One such vendor is…
BNL Vita Selects SunGard’s FastVal for Independent Valuation of Complex Derivatives
BNL Vita, an Italian banking insurance company that specialises in the life sector, has selected SunGard’s FastVal, an independent valuation service for vanilla and complex over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, to independently value its client’s portfolios. FastVal 3.0, which is delivered on an ASP basis, will help BNL Vita increase its operational efficiency when valuing complex OTC…
Volante Extends Messaging Support in FX Data and Settlements
Volante Technologies today announced its expansion in the foreign exchange messaging world with the availability of high-speed integration technology for price data from the Currenex ESP, as well as an integration model for the CLS settlement environment. Originally developed to integrate Currenex Executable Streaming Price (ESP) data into the low-latency data management architecture of a…
Volante Partners with QDBS, Enters Mexican Marketplace for Financial Data Management
Volante Technologies today announced its partnership with QDBS of Mexico City, a consulting firm and developer of software for local and multinational banks operating in Mexico. QDBS is using Volante technology for integration of SWIFT and other messaging in customer projects, as well as a new software solution that will be launched later this year….