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Harness UK Selects Fincad Analytics for Derivatives Valuations
Fincad, a global provider of financial analytics, and Harness UK today announced that Harness Liquid Macro Fund has selected Fincad Analytics to provide real time derivatives pricing and risk monitoring. Harness uses Fincad Analytics Suite for Excel as its primary desktop derivatives pricing solution for front office applications such as trade evaluation, risk monitoring of…
DST Global Solutions Appoints Head of Risk Solutions for North America
DST Global Solutions, a provider of business solutions and services to the global investment management industry, has today announced the appointment of Edward Dumas to spearhead its Risk Management Solutions in North America. Dumas joins DST Global Solutions from Manzanita Advisors where he served as President and was responsible for the corporation’s strategic focus, customer…
Advent Extends Alliance with Thomson Reuters to Advent Portfolio Exchange Clients
Following its announcement of the signing of an agreement with Advent last month, Thomson Reuters has extended the agreement to cover the buy side software vendor’s Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) solution. Under the terms of the new agreement, the data vendor will link the portfolio management solution with its global pricing and security reference data…
Aim Software Establishes Regional Office for Benelux in Luxembourg
Aim Software, a European provider of reference data management solutions to the financial industry, today announced that it has opened a subsidiary in Luxembourg to better serve the Benelux market and provide its existing and future customer base with an extended local service. The office opening in Luxembourg together with the strengthening of the activities…
TCS Upgrades Corporate Actions Offering, Bags Three New Customers for Solution
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has upgraded the platform underlying all of its capital markets solutions including its corporate actions offering: TCS B?NCS for Corporate Actions. Devesh Gupta, principal consultant for the vendor’s corporate actions solutions, tells Reference Data Review the details of the version five upgrade and its three recent client wins. The main focus…
MSRB Grants Omgeo Approval for Suppression of Paper Confirms for Municipal Bonds
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, today announced that the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) has issued an interpretive notice regarding Rule G-15, allowing clients to leverage Omgeo inSITE to fulfil their municipal bond confirmation requirements electronically instead of with paper. MSRB Rule G-15 requires that at or before the completion of a transaction…
SunGard to Establish Office in DIFC
SunGard has received a licence to establish an office in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). SunGard Middle East’s DIFC office will provide a complete range of services including business development, implementation, project management and support, for its expanding customer base. The DIFC office will support SunGard’s expansion in the growing financial services sectors of…
Algorithmics Awarded Patent for Loan Valuation Technology
Algorithmics has received a patent for technology that enables financial institutions to derive fair market values for their loans and other credit related instruments using techniques designed to improve accuracy and transparency relative to current industry approaches. The technology will help banks structure, price, value, simulate and subsequently risk manage their complex loan portfolios in…
Asset Control Wins ITG as Client, Launches New Compliance Focused Solution
EDM solution vendor Asset Control has bagged Investment Technology Group (ITG) as a new client and launched a new solution aimed at providing more transparency and control around reference data, with a view to improving firms’ compliance and audit functions. Rick Enfield, product business owner of the AC Plus solution, and Jean Williams, product business…
Aim Software, SIX Telekurs and Rolotec Partner for Reference Data Integration Solution
Swiss software vendor Rolotec has signed a partnership agreement with data management solution vendor Aim Software and data provider SIX Telekurs under which the vendors will work together on a reference data integration solution. Rolotec has traditionally been focused on the world of real-time data integration but has been driven to look at reference data…