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Information Mosaic Poaches TCS’ Singh to Spearhead New Indian Operations

In another instance of what seems to be a recent spate of corporate actions vendor musical chairs, Information Mosaic has poached Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) Manmohan Singh to help it establish a new office in India. Singh brings with him his management team in order to establish a new development facility for the vendor in…

QuIC Financial Technologies to Host Series of Credit Valuation Adjustment Seminars in Asia Pacific

QuIC Financial Technologies, a global solutions provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics, today announced that following the overwhelming success and interest in the company’s CVA Solution in Europe and North America, QuIC aims to build on its global CVA leadership with a series of CVA seminars in the Asia Pacific region. Responding to…

3L3 Committees Publish New Paper on Supervisory Practices for Money Laundering Directive

The three European level three (3L3) committees, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pension Supervisors (CEIOPS), have this week turned their attention to the area of anti-money laundering (AML) with the publication of a new report. The 3L3’s Anti-Money…

Is Cloud Computing an Answer to Risk and Reference Data Storage?

This week’s FS Club debate on cloud computing suggested that despite all the confusion around the exact definition of a cloud, what it does represent is potential for the future in terms of data storage. Nick Davies, chief technology officer for Lombard Risk Management, suggested that a private cloud could be used for purposes such…

Barr Jumps Ship from Thomson Reuters and Lands at Investment Company Bridgewater Associates

Almost a year after he changed roles at Thomson Reuters and moved to Switzerland, Gary Barr has left the vendor and joined investment company Bridgewater Associates in a research data role. During most of his time at Thomson Reuters Barr was heavily involved in the data management space in the Enterprise division but at the…

Fitch Solutions Launches Custom Data Service for Credit Markets

Managing data from multiple sources is proving to be troublesome for most firms and even more so in a stressed economy, according to Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group. In response, Fitch Solutions has launched an integrated data service (IDS) to meet growing user demand for a single, customisable feed platform covering data…

SmartStream Extends Asia Pacific Ambitions with New Tokyo Office, Ex-Reuters Matsumoto to Head

Back office solution vendor SmartStream Technologies has expanded its Asia Pacific operations, which are headquartered in Singapore, to include on the ground presence in Japan via the opening of a new office in Tokyo. The vendor has hired ex-Reuters executive Eiichi Matsumoto to head the office as its country manager for Japan. Christian Schiebl, executive…

Pricing Partners Introduces Hagan Adjuster in the Interest Rates Module

Pricing Partners announced today that it has introduced Hagan Adjuster, a new class of models, for its interest rates module to enhance its valuation capacity. The Hagan Adjuster model thoroughly combines the versatility of dynamic models (Libor Market Model, short rate model like Hull White or Gaussian Quadratic models) and the accuracy of static models…

Cadis Adds Local Language Capabilities to its EDM Solution

Sibos saw the opening of a new Asia Pacific office in Hong Kong for EDM vendor Cadis and it has now added more capabilities to service the users in this market via local language support for Chinese characters. The vendor hopes the new multilingual functionality will allow it to gain additional traction in markets that…

Ex-Fidelity ActionsXchange Exec Madigan Resurfaces at XSP

Following his departure from corporate actions cleansing vendor Fidelity ActionsXchange earlier this year, Chris Madigan has finally resurfaced at indirect (for now anyway) competitor XSP as the solution vendor’s new senior sales executive and account relationship manager. In his new role, Madigan is based out of New York and has responsibility for developing new business…