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Dans Le Port d’Amsterdam
Earlier this month, Swift released its programme for the conference behemoth that is Sibos, this year to be held between 25 and 29 October in Amsterdam. The industry owned financial network operator has indicated that it will be focusing on the three Rs it believes to be the most important to the market at the…
LSE Adds Yet More to its UnaVista Platform by Adding Support for FIX and XML
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is certainly keen to add all the bells and whistles necessary to attract the maximum number of customers to its flagship post-trade platform UnaVista. Following the move of its transaction reporting service onto the platform earlier this month, the exchange operator has now added support for FIX and XML standards…
IIF Calls for Set up of International Task Force to Tackle Cross-Border Resolution; Legal Entity Experts Needed
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), which includes members from the world’s largest financial institutions and is headed by chief exec of Deutsche Bank Josef Ackerman, has called for the establishment of a G20 led task force to tackle the issues involved in establishing internationally agreed cross border resolution agreements. The crack team will need…
Automated Outsourcing Services Signs up to SIX Telekurs’ Pricing & Corporate Actions Services
Automated Outsourcing Services (AOS), a Johannesburg-based independent third party fund administration company, has signed an agreement to use SIX Telekurs’ Intraday Pricing Service (IPS) and Corporate Actions Reports Service (CARS) in order to price their clients’ instruments and to support the servicing of their client’s assets: a mixture of equity and forex positions. Director of…
European Commission Adopts Draft Mandate for EU-US Data Protection Agreement
Following months of negotiations, the European Commission has finally published a draft mandate to negotiate a personal data protection agreement between the European Union and the United States when cooperating to fight terrorism or crime. European politicians, including Viviane Reding, the EU’s Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, are keen that bulk data transfers…
Northern Trust Supports Fair Value NAV Pricing for EMEA Clients
Northern Trust has implemented a daily Fair Value NAV Pricing tool for its fund management and institutional clients in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Through an automated system, Northern Trust can fair value securities on a daily basis to deliver NAV (net asset value) unit prices significantly reducing opportunities for market timing in different…
For What it’s Worth…
Last week’s Xtrakter conference featured the opportunity for audience participation in the form of interactive voting – via remote control style touch pads in the main room and via delegates’ own mobile phones in the break out room. Now, as a journalist, I’m always keen on using a few stats to back up an argument…
Pricing Partners and MathFinance Combine Forces
Pricing Partners and MathFinance, a quantitative engineering vendor, with expertise in pricing and hedging foreign exchange and equity derivatives announced today that they will join forces to provide clients a even more global offering, combining software and quantitative consulting. Under the agreement, Pricing Partners and MathFinance will cross sell their respective offering in order to…
UnaVista Expands Volante Use With FIX and XML Messaging Support
After successful deployment of Volante Designer with SWIFT messaging support, the London Stock Exchange’s UnaVista has added FIX and XML support, Volante Technologies announced today. The implementation will facilitate expansion of the UnaVista matching, reconciliation and data integration engine into new business areas, including linking UnaVista to the Exchange’s FIX gateway, and supporting the implementation…
EDM Council Marks Milestones in Membership and Data Management Maturity
The Enterprise Data Management Council, a not-for-profit business forum created by the financial industry to address the issues and challenges associated with managing data content as a business and operational priority, today announced that it had reached a membership milestone of 50 member companies with the addition of nine new members in 2010. The rapid…