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Numerix to Provide Lehman Brothers Holdings with Valuations for its Outstanding Derivatives Contracts
Over a year after the collapse of the investment bank, Lehman Brothers Holdings (LBHI) has selected Numerix to provide it with independent real-time valuations for its one million outstanding derivatives contracts. According to the valuations vendor, the deal is one of largest and most comprehensive valuations projects of its kind to date. Steven O’Hanlon, president…
XSP Partners with Decillion Group to Provide XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform as a Service Solution for Asia Pacific
XSP has partnered with Decillion Group, a banking software solutions provider, to provide a service-based offering of the XSP v5 Corporate Actions platform to the Asian and Australian markets. Through this agreement, Decillion Group will market and support the XSP v5 software in a software as a service (SaaS) environment to help clients in the…
XSP Increases Performance in XSP v5 Corporate Actions Platform by Up to 8,500%
XSP, a leading global provider of Corporate Actions software, announced today new benchmark performance figures for its already-powerful XSP v5 Corporate Actions platform with gains as high as 8,500% in its Data Management & Scrubbing module; over 2,500% in its Notifications component and a 3,200% increase in processing lottery events. These statistics further demonstrate the…
Bo Nordlander to Take Over as Head of SIX Telekurs in the Nordic Countries
Bringing a proven leadership track record, Bo Nordlander is to take over as head of the Nordic subsidiaries of SIX Telekurs with effect from January 1, 2010. Interim Chief Executive Officer Bo Strandberg will continue his duties on the Board of Directors. Bo Nordlander will push ahead with the upgrading of existing front office systems…
Interactive Data Teams up with Pluris to Provide Daily Independent Valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Pricing and Reference Data business now offers clients daily valuations for Municipal Auction Rate Securities (ARS) including Student Loan Auction Rate Securities (SLARS), from Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC, a provider of market-based valuations of illiquid securities. “Interactive…
SmartStream Launches New Version of TLM Corporate Actions, Adds Solution to Common Platform
Back office processing solution vendor SmartStream Technologies has upgraded its Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) Corporate Actions solution in order to realise cost savings and efficiencies by bringing it onto a common platform with the rest of its offerings. Paul Phillips, business development consultant at the vendor, explains to Reference Data Review that the upgrade has…
Interactive Data Announces Change in Financial Leadership
Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors, today announced that Andrew J. Hajducky III has resigned as executive vice president, treasurer and chief financial officer to pursue new opportunities, effective immediately. Christine A. Sampson, the Company’s vice president of finance…
DTCC, SWIFT and XBRL US Launch U.S. Stakeholder Group as Part of Issuer to Investor: Corporate Actions Initiative
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), SWIFT and XBRL US announced today the creation of a Stakeholder Group as a part of its Issuer to Investor: Corporate Actions initiative, which was launched in May 2009, to improve the processing of corporate actions data in the U.S. Composed of key players from the industry, the…
SunGard’s Brokerage and Clearance Solutions Primed for Options Symbology Initiative
SunGard has completed the required remediation and industry testing preparation of its brokerage and clearance solutions for the Option Symbology Initiative (OSI). OSI will help correct the limitations of an outdated symbology and overhaul the existing method of identifying exchange-listed options contracts to improve processing efficiencies and provide the ability to identify a broader range…
XSP Now Offers Corporate Actions Data from the Australian Securities Exchange via XSP v5 Platform
XSP, the leading global provider of Corporate Actions processing software, announced today that it is working with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to take delivery and process its ReferencePoint™ Corporate Actions data product through the XSP™ v5 platform. The XSP v5 platform is a state-of-the-art solution developed to automate each step of the global Corporate…