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Principia Standardises Integration, Ongoing Surveillance and Management of Collateral Performance Data
Principia Partners, a solution provider for the management and administration of structured finance portfolios, today announced the launch of Principia Structured Finance Platform (Principia SFP) Version 6.2. The latest upgrade helps financial institutions and investment managers to track, monitor, analyse and report on the collateral pool performance of any fixed income asset, including asset backed…
Fitch Solutions Partners with Pricing Partners on CDS Data Distribution
Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group focusing on the development of fixed income products and services, and Pricing Partners, an independent valuation, today announced a strategic partnership allowing users of Pricing Partners’ Price-it Solution with Fitch Solutions market data license to access seamlessly Fitch Solutions’ market data on OTC credit derivatives. The partnership…
FTSE Group Extends Implementation of XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform to Hong Kong
Following its rollout in both London and New York last year, FTSE Group has gone live with the XSP v5 Corporate Actions platform in a new location: Hong Kong. The corporate actions processing platform now covers the indices provider’s Asian operations and Neil Sheppard, managing director and chief operating officer of EMEA for XSP, reckons…
Issuers’ Group Campaigns for Regulators to Reduce their Reliance on Ratings
Ratings agencies are really getting a battering from all sides this month. Not only is the banking sector and the regulators scrutinising their every move, now issuers have added their two pennies’ worth to the debate. This week, issuer association EuropeanIssuers indicated that it believes references to credit ratings should be completely removed from European…
Aim Software’s Sommeregger Talks up CetrelSecurities Partnership
Following the signing of a partnership with Luxembourg-based, application service provider (ASP) specialist CetrelSecurities earlier this year, data management solution vendor Aim Software has acquired its first joint customer in the Luxembourg market. Josef Sommeregger, vice president business development and sales at Aim Software, explains that the joint offering is aimed at netting the vendor…
Nomura Launches Collocation Facility Using Colt’s Network Infrastructure
Nomura has selected Colt to provide network infrastructure for its new European connectivity and collocation service. The Nomura initiative comes as the Japanese firm seeks to build on the strong European equities position of Lehman Brothers, whose European and Asian operations it took over a year ago. Nomura calls its new infrastructure a “next-generation ultra-low-latency…
Q&A: RTI Introduces Wide Area Routing Service; Scaling To Hundreds of Thousands of Applications
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is best known for its messaging middleware, which is deployed in support of low-latency applications such as algorithmic trading, within trading firms. Recently, RTI introduced the RTI Routing Service, which can be used to bridge applications and networks running in different locations – up to tens or hundreds of thousands of applications….
Schroders Goes Live with SimCorp Dimension in Asia Pacific
Schroder Investment Management has completed the implementation of SimCorp Dimension for valuation and settlement functions across four countries within its Asia Pacific operation. The system, which has been live since 6 July 2009, covers over 800 portfolios in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Japan and processes more than 20,000 transactions a month. SimCorp Dimension replaces…
Derivix Names Industry Veteran Pierce President
Derivix, a financial software company providing options pricing, portfolio risk visualisation and analytics solutions, today announced that Carrick Pierce has joined the company as its new president. In this newly created position, Pierce will oversee business development, product strategy and global sales to support Derivix as it continues to grow in the dynamic US options…
Asset Control Officially Launches AC Invest, with Added Fanfare from Olympic Champ Gunnell
EDM specialist vendor Asset Control officially launched its new compliance focused solution, AC Invest, this week with a little help from former British Olympic champion Sally Gunnell. Reference Data Review first covered the news of the launch at Sibos, but the vendor decided to dedicate an evening of networking, cocktails and Olympic tales to elaborate…