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FinAnalytica Integrates FINCAD Analytics in New Cognity Release for Full Multi-Asset and Multi-Strategy Coverage
FINCAD, a provider of derivatives analytics, today announced that FinAnalytica, a provider of real world portfolio risk solutions for asset managers, hedge funds and multi-manager funds, has expanded its derivatives pricing coverage by embedding the firm’s Analytics Suite into Version 3.2 of Cognity, its flagship platform. Cognity, FinAnalytica’s risk management and portfolio allocation platform, directly…
In the Firing Line
Last week’s MiFID reunion meeting involved both a handy roundup of all the MiFID related proposals coming down the pipe (although it was a speedy roundup, given the number of items to cover) and an opportunity for industry participants to do what they seem to like best of late: vent about regulatory grievances. In the…
MoneyMate Survey Reveals Buy Side Demand for Automation and Outsourcing of Data Management Processes
MoneyMate, a provider of investment data quality management solutions, today announced the results of a survey focused on the data management issues and challenges facing the asset management community today. Fifty percent of survey respondents indicated that manual processes are the greatest challenge in bringing their product data to market. Other challenges include timeliness (37.5%…
DTCC, SWIFT & XBRL US Unveil Business Case for Corporate Actions Automation
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), SWIFT and XBRL US today announced the results of a business case advocating a transformation in the way corporate actions announcements are communicated in the United States, allowing investors to receive information on such corporate actions as mergers, dividends, stock splits and other events in a more timely,…
Armour Appointed to Lead DST Global Solutions Business Process Solutions Division
DST Global Solutions has appointed Tony Armour as Managing Director of the company’s Business Process Solutions (BPS) division. Armour will be responsible for building on the organisation’s success in delivering solutions to the financial services industry as well as identifying and penetrating new and emerging markets. DST Global Solutions’ BPS business provides solutions to the…
Systemic Risk Regulator Should Resemble the CRO Function and Data Utility is Likely to be Too Costly
The 22 respondents to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s recent survey (Sifma) believe that regardless of the exact structure of the systemic risk regulator, its roles and responsibilities for the overall markets should reflect those of a firm’s chief risk officer (CRO). The Sifma member firms, regulators, clearing counterparties (CCPs) and exchanges involved…
JWG’s MiFID League Table Includes Four Main Reference Data Considerations
As previously noted by Reference Data Review, the current review of MiFID encompasses a whole host of reference data issues, which think tank JWG has handily included in its recently updated MiFID league table. The four main reference data changes comprise the new requirements for counterparty and client identifiers, the extension of post-trade data requirements, changes to…
Post-Trade Data Quality has Deteriorated Since MiFID But Are Current Proposals Enough for Instrument Identification, Asks FISD’s Davin
The market fragmentation that has been a major by-product of the introduction of MiFID has resulted in a number of serious data related issues in the OTC space in particular, said Tom Davin, managing director of the Washington-based Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), at the recent MiFID…
Resilient Pricing Benchmarks are Needed for Europe, Agree Thomson Reuters Panellists
In light of the current high market volatility, Europe is in need of resilient pricing benchmarks in order to more accurately model instrument pricing, especially for those at the complex end of the spectrum, agreed panellists at Thomson Reuters’ Global Pricing Forum in London last week. The push towards providing greater transparency around prices from…
Issuance of ISINs for Loans is a Step in the Right Direction, Says DTCC’s Lewis
This year has seen the issuance of the first set of ISINs for the loans market and Mathew Keshav Lewis, vice president of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) LoanServ business, reckons this is a great start to introducing further data standardisation in this particularly slow moving corner of the market. Of course, there…