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Another One Jumps Ship at Fiserv: Hopcroft Joins XSP as Senior Sales Exec
Following the exit of ex-Investment Services head Geoff Harries and ex-marketing head Irene Mulkeen earlier this year, Fiserv has lost yet another corporate actions focused executive in the form of former sales exec Ben Hopcroft, who has joined eVent rival XSP. Hopcroft is now senior sales executive and account relationship manager for the EMEA region…
SAS Focuses on Risk Data Integration, GRC and High Performance Risk in 2010, Says Rogers
Following the signing of a partnership agreement with derivatives analytics vendor Fincad at the start of this year, SAS has been steadily investing in its overall risk solution set over the course of the last five months, including adding more credit scoring capabilities to its SAS Risk Management for Banking. David Rogers, SAS global product…
Adepa Selects StatPro in Luxembourg First
StatPro Group, a provider of portfolio analysis and asset evaluation services for the global asset management industry, today announces that Adepa Asset Management in Luxembourg has signed a contract for components of Seven, StatPro’s new SaaS system aimed at performance and risk specialists in large asset managers. Adepa is the leading Spanish provider in Luxembourg…
LSE’s Husler Explains Decision Behind the Move of its Transaction Reporting Service onto UnaVista
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has offered a transaction reporting service, dubbed the Exchange Reporting Service (ERS), since 2002, but has recently moved the service onto its web-hosted platform UnaVista. According to Mark Husler, head of information services business development at the LSE, the exchange operator decided to move the service onto the platform in…
Confluence Helps Fund Administrators Manage New Complex Money Market Fund Reporting Mandates
Confluence, a global leader in investment management data automation, today announced new software to help fund administrators manage complex Money Market Fund Reform Rule reporting recently mandated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Unity Regulatory Reporting delivers an automated solution to the complex challenge of preparing and filing the SEC’s required Form N-MFP,…
Forewarned is Forearmed
According to Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd, the slow progress being demonstrated this week in the US with regards to agreeing the various amendments to the financial services bill could end up killing the reforms altogether. Not good news for those hoping for the establishment of an Office of Financial Research before the year…
Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia To Market Interactive Data’s Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing
Interactive Data Corporation, a provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with the Bond Pricing Agency Malaysia Sdn Bhd (BPA Malaysia), a leading national bond pricing agency, to make available international fixed-income evaluated pricing to the Malaysian market. Based in…
S&P Fixed Income Valuations Deal is Part of Wider Data Aggregation Challenge, GlobeOp’s Anderson Explains
Fund administrator GlobeOp Financial Services has signed a deal with Standard & Poor’s Valuation and Risk Strategies business (what was known as the Fixed Income Risk Management Services or FIRMS division until recently), under which the ratings agency’s subsidiary will provide GlobeOp with valuations for a range of fixed income securities. Jon Anderson, global head…
Barnier Keen for Credit Ratings Agencies Crackdown to be Globally Coordinated; Iosco Publishes Consultation on Subject
Earlier this week, European internal market and services commissioner Michel Barnier indicated that he is keen for a level of global coordination to be achieved when implementing new financial system regulations, including those for credit ratings agencies (CRAs). Speaking ahead of his meeting with US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, Barnier stressed the importance of stronger…
CPSS and Iosco Set Out Recommendations for Trade Data Repositories in New CP
A joint working group of the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (Iosco) has published a consultation paper this week setting out recommendations for the operation of trade repositories in the OTC derivatives markets. Data sharing and new data infrastructure is a subject…