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SunGard Enhances FastVal Independent Valuation Service
SunGard has released a new version of FastVal, its independent valuation service for vanilla cash and complex structured products and OTC derivatives. SunGard’s FastVal 3.0 provides financial institutions with transparency of the models and underlying market data used in the valuation, as well as enhanced Greeks, greater functionality in the running of intraday valuations, and…
Pricing Partners and Belatos Limited Team Up for Broad Distribution of Price-it Solution Suites in Asia
Pricing Partners has established a distribution agreement with a new partner, Belatos Limited. The distributor will deliver Pricing Partners’ full solution suites throughout the entire Asia Pacific region. First line support will be provided out of Belatos’ Hong Kong office. The promising Asian market is growing at a high rate. Independent valuation services and tools…
Costs and Corporate Actions Top the List of Concerns for Aim Software and Interactive Data Survey Respondents
The high cost involved in the processing of reference data is the main driver this year behind investment in technology in the data management space, according to the results of 2009’s annual survey by Aim Software and Interactive Data. This focus is unsurprising, given the intense budget cutting that has been characteristic of the post-crisis…
Reval’s Okochi Appointed to CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee
Jiro Okochi, chief executive officer and co-founder of Reval, a global derivative risk management and hedge accounting solutions provider to over 375 publicly traded companies, was voted a member of the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC) by the five members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Okochi will participate in the next meeting of…
SEC Launches New XBRL Website to Speed Compliance with New Data Requirements
There can be no doubt that XBRL is big news in the US with regards to financial reporting and investor and issuer communications. The decision to mandate the use of XBRL tagging for public company statements by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this year raised its profile and the regulator has this month added…
Quantifi Releases Paper Addressing Evolution of Counterparty Credit Risk Management
Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, released today a white paper titled “The Evolution of Counterparty Credit Risk – An Insider’s View,” co-authored by David Kelly, Quantifi’s director of Credit Product Development, and Jon Gregory, author of “Counterparty Credit Risk: The New Challenge for Global Financial Markets.”…
DST Global Solutions Poaches Hogan from HCL, McKenna from Temenos and Lord from Thomson Reuters
Adding to its catalogue of new hires this year so far, investment management solution vendor DST Global Solutions has poached three new executive team members from vendor rivals to add to its Investment Management Solutions business. The vendor has hired ex-HCL Technologies executive Philip Hogan, ex-Temenos marketing director Peter McKenna and ex-Thomson Reuters data executive…
RiskVal Opens Taiwan Office For Follow the Sun Support, Development
RiskVal Financial Solutions, a provider of fixed income and structured credit trading and risk management platforms, has opened a permanent office in Asia. The new office in Taipei, Taiwan will enhance 24 hour support operations for RiskVal products, as well as adding additional software development resources. “RiskVal is pleased to provide follow the sun support…
Fitch Solutions Launches CDS Pricing Asia Close Service
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, has today extended its CDS Pricing Service to now include consensus pricing data which captures Asian market closing prices. This will provide enhanced transparency on the credit default swap (CDS) pricing of entities traded in Asian markets and further improve both users’ risk management processes and their…
Princeton Financial Systems Launches New Compliance Focused Data Management Module
In line with the current trend towards new vendor launches around targeted data management solutions related to compliance and regulatory reporting, Princeton Financial Systems (PFS) has added a new compliance data checking module to its MIG21 solution. The new module, MIG21 Data Manager, is aimed at reducing data related errors before the compliance checking process,…