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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….

GlobeOp NAV Transparency Report Offers Independent Governance Data to Hedge Fund Investors

GlobeOp Financial Services, has launched the GlobeOp NAV Transparency Report to help fund managers provide investors with greater visibility into the monthly calculation of a portfolio’s net asset value (NAV). “Fund managers recognise that good governance attracts further investment,” said Tony Glickman, global head of Risk Services at GlobeOp. “Pension funds and other institutional investors,…

FINCAD Responds to Customer Needs for Greater Risk Management and Transparency

With the recent US Senate approved bill that means sweeping overhaul of financial regulation and calls for more transparency and prudent risk management, FINCAD, the industry standard for financial analytics, announced the launch of F3 Excel Edition. In a recent FINCAD survey, financial professionals revealed a greater need for detailed risk management models and better…

PolarLake Announces Partnership with OnixS to Extend Market Data and Front Office Capabilities

PolarLake today announced that it has agreed a partnership with OnixS allowing PolarLake to support a range of OnixS Direct Market Access Market Data and Trading Handlers. The OnixS solutions provide high performance calibrated and certified access to a wide range of exchanges, ECNs and brokers based on FIX standards and proprietary API’s. John Randles…

Markit Adds Commodities to Portfolio Valuations Service

Markit, a global financial information services company, today announced it has extended the range of instruments covered by its Portfolio Valuations service to include commodities. The addition of commodities is a major milestone in Markit’s ongoing programme to develop a comprehensive, independent valuations service. Markit now provides valuations for commodity derivatives such as forwards, swaps…

GoldenSource’s New Data Warehouse Solution Has Already Netted Two Asset Management Clients, Says Meriton

EDM vendor GoldenSource has this week launched its new Data Warehouse solution on the market, pulling together its various data management offerings under the banner of a consolidated repository for a firm’s various data sets. Mike Meriton, CEO of the vendor, explains to Reference Data Review that it has already bagged two asset management clients for…