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Cadis Poaches Deutsche Bank’s Weber, Linedata’s Willaime, Asset Control’s Meaney and Charles River’s Dobson
Following a year of investment in its flagship solution and the acquisition of compliance software firm C8, EDM vendor Cadis has begun 2010 with a bout of hiring, including poaching a number of executives from rival vendors. The vendor has appointed ex-Deutsche Bank vice president Rob Weber as its new managing director in New York,…
Aim Bags Second Client Win of 2010 with Switzerland’s Finter Bank
Data management solution vendor Aim Software has bagged its second client win of the year this month with Swiss private bank Finter Bank Zurich, which has opted for an application service provider (ASP) version of the vendor’s Gain data management platform. The solution will be deployed as an ASP service via outsourcing vendor SFB’s services4banks…
Pricing Transparency and Liquidity Risk are Top of Investors’ List of Concerns, Says SEI Survey
Institutional investors investing in the hedge fund market are more concerned about issues around pricing transparency and liquidity risk than ever before, according to a recent survey conducted by investment management solution vendor SEI and consultancy firm Greenwich Associates. These issues have even surpassed concerns over poor performance of these funds, says Phil Masterson, managing…
EACH Publishes CCP Risk Management Recommendations
EACH, the European Association of Central Counterparty Clearing Houses, has published its Supplementary Risk Recommendations. This document is the result of work undertaken by EACH risk experts since the finalisation of the ESCB-CESR Recommendations and provides further guidance concerning voluntary enhancements to CCPs’ risk management. The preparing of these recommendations demonstrates EACH’s strong commitment to…
Callable and Putable Bonds added to SIX Telekurs’ Fair Value Pricing Service
SIX Telekurs has enhanced its Fair Value Pricing Service by adding a new asset class and hence increasing the number of instruments covered to over 110,000 investment grade fixed income securities. SIX Telekurs is a provider of international financial data. Its Fair Value Pricing Service offers analytically calculated prices for roughly 110,000 investment grade fixed…
Rimes Opens New Office in Paris
Rimes Technologies, a data management solution provider, announced the opening of its new Paris office, further increasing its presence in Europe. Frédéric Mancuso, a co-founder of Rimes, will lead the new office, which is located on Avenue de l’Opéra in the financial district of Paris. Renaud Larzillière joins him as senior programme manager to head…
UK FSA’s Turner Talks up the Data Challenges of Altering Accounting Standards
There is a degree of tension between those seeking to reflect the “truth” with changes to accounting standards and those wishing to reflect the concerns of prudential regulators, according to UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) chairman Adair Turner. In a speech last week to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), Turner…
NewRiver Partners with Miningham & Oellerich
In an ongoing effort to extend the company’s compliance grade mutual fund data to all broker-dealers, NewRiver today announced a new partnership with Miningham & Oellerich (M&O), a provider of front and back office solutions for broker dealers. NewRiver – creators of the leading central repository of mutual fund documents and data for financial services…
Logicscope Connects to Ice for Real-Time Post-Trade STP
Logicscope, a provider of post-trade STP between trading venues and their customers, has added IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) to its prestigious community of execution venues. By connecting to TradeSTP, Logicscope’s post-trade platform, clients can receive real-time post trade notifications for any asset traded on the market leading ICE electronic trading platform, transformed and delivered seamlessly into any…
UK FSA Pokes Holes in Investment Firms’ Protection of Client Assets
This week, the UK Financial Services Authority published another “Dear CEO” letter, this time aimed at compelling insurance brokers and investment firms to improve the way they protect client assets, including record keeping considerations. The letter, sent by the FSA’s managing director of risk, Sally Dewar, warns that firms must take heed of the regulator’s…