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Misys and Numerix Expand Global Partnership to Bring Further Innovation in Financial Instrument Creation
Misys, a global application software and services company and Numerix, a provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, today announced the expansion of their global partnership and distribution agreement. The two companies have been working closely together as partners since 2001 with more than 50 shared customers as a result. The extended…
The Week That Was…
This week’s financial conference on the US reform bill finally saw the Office of Financial Research come under the spotlight with Republican senator for Texas Jeb Hensarling’s motion to strike the proposals from the regulation. The details of the discussions are now publically available and it’s interesting to see the various angles of attack and…
EDGAR Online and UBmatrix to Merge, Creating Global XBRL Leader
EDGAR Online and UBmatrix today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement that would create the first global end-to-end provider of solutions for the creation, validation and analysis of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) content. UBmatrix is one of the original inventors of the XBRL financial standard, which is being mandated worldwide by many…
Privacy Concerns Raised About Office of Financial Research, But Reforms Likely to Pass Without Significant Amendment
This month’s regulatory debate on the subject of the Office of Financial Research proposals, which are contained in Title I of the current US financial reform bill, included discussion of the potential threat to privacy that the data centre poses to the US market overall. Democrat senator Susan Garrett called the Office of Financial Research…
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…