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DTCC Continues on the Case to Pitch its Warehouse as Trade Repository for OTC Derivatives
It seems that a week can’t go by without some mention of a trade repository being made in the US market. This week, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has been doing its bit to renew its call for regulators and financial market participants to use its own Trade Information Warehouse as a repository…
UK FSA Confirms Data Format of Reports for Derivatives on Regulated Markets
The deadlines may have slipped but the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has released more details surrounding the formats required for its new Alternative Instrument Identifier (AII) transaction reporting regime. The regulator last week released a new document aimed at confirming the way in which transactions in reportable securities derivatives admitted to trading on a…
DST Global Solutions Launches EDM and Analytics Offering for Public Pension Funds
Following a rebrand earlier this year and a spate of new hires, investment management solution vendor DST Global Solutions has added a new data management and analytics platform for public pension funds to its portfolio. Jamie Verrengia, performance solution manager for the North American region, explains that its enterprise data management (EDM) platform has been…
StatPro Enriches Complex Asset Pricing Service for Investment Managers
StatPro Group, a provider of portfolio analytics and data solutions for the global asset management industry, today announces two enhancements to its system for pricing complex financial assets. T+0 pricing for credit default swaps and 142 new bond-pricing functions have been added to the software as a service. Complex Asset Pricing (CAP) produces model prices…
Call to Action from WFIC – Swifter, Higher, Stronger
The task now facing market data practitioners is to innovate in order to generate an essential renewal of the financial markets, according to Jon Robson, president, Enterprise at Thomson Reuters, who set the tone for the rest of the bi-annual World Financial Information Conference (WFIC) in his opening keynote speech. Relating the conference to the…
It’s Getting Better …
… Getting better all the time. That’s my assessment of the economy as far as spending on IT by Wall Street is concerned. Sorry, having just picked up the remastered Beatles classic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, I couldn’t resist tapping Lennon/McCartney’s track 4 title for this blog post. I’ll offer just a couple…
B-next Extends Data Reach with Interactive Data Agreement, Extends Ambitions to UK
Compliance and regulatory reporting platform vendor b-next has recently signed an agreement with Interactive Data under which the data vendor will provide global pricing and reference data to feed b-next’s MACOC software solutions. The deal is part of the German vendor’s ambitions to crack the UK market and should help it in the effort to…
Pricing Partners Implements Simplex Algorithm and Significantly Enhances its Calibration Power
Pricing Partners announced today that Simplex, a new optimisation technique, has been implemented in the Price-it Library to enhance its calibration power. This algorithm allows time dependent Heston Model parameters, accelerates calibration procedure and improves calibration accuracy. With this upgraded numerical method, Pricing Partners enriches Price-it Library and undoubtedly enhances its strong authority on cutting…
Sophis Poaches Evans from Thomson Reuters for Sales Role in Middle East
Pricing and risk management vendor Sophis has poached Ian Evans from Thomson Reuters’ Enterprise division to head its new sales team in the Middle East. The competition in the risk management vendor community has been hotting up over the last couple of months, as regulators and investors scrutinise firms’ risk management practices more closely and…
FISD Confers Lifetime Achievement Award on Stuart Clark
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announced that Stuart Clark, former president and CEO of Interactive Data Corporation, is the recipient of FISD’s third Market Data Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor recognizes a long and distinguished career dedicated to the advancement of the financial information industry….