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JPMorgan Agrees to Provide ISDA with CDS Pricing Engine to Increase Transparency
JPMorgan has agreed to hand over its proprietary credit default swap (CDS) pricing engine to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) as an open source platform with a view to improving transparency in the market. It is hoped that this move will deter regulators from stepping in to regulate the sector, which has come…
XSP Moves Corporate Headquarters to Larger Premises
Corporate actions software vendor XSP has moved its corporate headquarters to larger premises in Birmingham, Alabama. According to the vendor, the move is designed to accommodate future growth and bolster client service activities. The vendor says it selected Birmingham because of its position as a banking centre and its local community of technology professionals. XSP’s…
NZX in Discussions to Sell Carbon Registry Business to Markit
New Zealand exchange NZX is currently in discussions with OTC data specialist Markit to sell its wholly owned carbon registry business, TZ1 Registry, to the vendor. According to a spokesperson from Markit, discussions about the sale have been ongoing for four months and the deal is still awaiting formal board approval. TZ1 Registry is the…
Firms are Focused on the Three Rs: Risk, Regulation and ROI, Says GoldenSource’s Raeves
Today’s economic environment has caused financial institutions to go back to basics and focus on the three Rs: risk, regulation and return on investment (ROI), explained Gert Raeves, senior vice president of strategic business development and marketing at GoldenSource, to attendees at the EDM vendor’s recent briefing on risk management. Raeves also discussed the findings…
Siperian Partners with Exeros to Speed up MDM Solution Deployment
Master data management (MDM) platform vendor Siperian has entered into an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with cross-source data profiling, discovery and validation software vendor Exeros. The agreement is aimed at speeding up customer deployment of the Siperian data hub with the creation of a new Siperian Data Model Designer offering, which is powered by…
EDM Council Releases Draft of Semantics Repository for Industry Evaluation
Following the announcement of its plans to establish an online semantics repository in May last year, the EDM Council has finally released the first draft of the repository for industry evaluation. The online conceptual data model and data dictionary is aimed at providing an open resource for collaboration among industry participants and tackling the problem…
McCreevy Calls for Regulatory Overhaul and Continues Campaign for European CDS CCP
Originally appeared in MiFID Monitor European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy is back on his soapbox this week and he seems to have two particular bees in his bonnet. The first is, of course, the need for an overhaul of the European regulatory landscape to improve what he calls the “patchwork” of…
Risk Management and Error Reduction are Key Drivers for Investment in Data Management, Says Aim and Interactive Data
Improving reference data quality in order to reduce errors is the primary reason why financial institutions have recently been engaging in reference data management projects, according to the results of Aim Software’s annual survey for 2008. Of the 340 respondents to the survey, 70% highlighted cited data quality as a key focus for these projects,…
Fitch Taps Thomson Reuters’ Warner to Head Content Operations
Fitch Solutions has named Simone Warner senior director and head of its global content operations. Based in London, Warner will report to Thomas Aubrey, managing director, Fitch Solutions. In this new role, Warner will manage Fitch’s internal content teams and be responsible for the content requirements of Fitch Solutions and Fitch Ratings. As such, she…
European Issuer Community is Focused on Standardisation, Says Fransens
The European issuer community is working with the rest of the industry towards achieving greater efficiency and reduced costs in the area of corporate actions processing, according to Dorien Fransens, secretary general of EuropeanIssuers. Speaking to the delegation at CorpActions 2009 Europe, Fransens elaborated the progress that the two cross sector working groups, looking at…