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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…
Fitch Solutions Provides CDS Pricing for Korean Won
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has extended its CDS Pricing Service to offer derived CDS pricing for Korean Won (KRW) CDS contracts, bringing transparency to this highly illiquid market to improve users’ investment and risk management decisions. Covering the Korean corporate and financial sectors, the new service is based on a proprietary…
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…
The Future is in the Memory for Tibco
I’m in Las Vegas, at Tucon, the Tibco User Conference, and it’s been a great experience. Incredibly, I am a Vegas virgin, so I indeed marveled at the re-creation of St. Mark’s Square – complete with its expansive blue sky, a canal and gondolas – all on the second floor of the Venetian. And it…
FRSGlobal Fine Tuning Fair Value Pricing Models for Emission Linked Derivatives, Says Brammertz
Risk and regulatory reporting solution vendor FRSGlobal is currently endeavouring to develop new valuation models in order to gauge the fair value prices of emission linked derivatives contracts, according to Willi Brammertz, senior risk advisor at the vendor. Although political concerns are holding back some degree of progress with regards to these new instruments, Brammertz…
Reval Version 10.0 Continues to Shape Future of SaaS for Derivative Risk Management and Hedge Accounting
From its annual client conference in New York, Reval, the global leader in derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions, announced today the spring release of its single-version, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, Reval 10.0. Updates in the new version provide the foundation for a go-forward platform planned since Reval’s acquisition of FXpress last fall. “In addition…
Standard & Poor’s Provides Independent Fixed Income Valuations to GlobeOp Financial Services
S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, an independent and analytically separate business unit within Standard & Poor’s, has been selected to provide independent valuations for a wide range of fixed income securities to GlobeOp Financial Services, a leading independent provider of automated, integrated middle- and back-office, administration and risk reporting services to hedge funds and asset…