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Formal Working Groups Needed to Tackle Downstream Data Issues, Say Majority of Readers
Interoperability and integration between downstream systems and centralised data management systems has been an issue for some time and last year’s events have brought it into the spotlight. According to the results of our latest Reference Data Review reader poll it is not just the regulators that are concerned about this area, a lot of…
Hungary’s Wallis Group Opts for SuperDerivatives’ FX Derivatives Valuations
The Wallis Group, one of Hungary’s largest holdings companies, has selected SuperDerivatives to improve its ability to hedge cross border currency exposures and to access independent portfolio valuation for auditing purposes. The Wallis Group, which specialises in investment, consulting and asset management, is a multinational company and needed access to accurate, independent pricing for FX…
AG Insurance Selects Pricing Partners for Structured Products Valuations
AG Insurance, which was formerly Fortis Insurance Belgium, has chosen the Pricing Partners service to perform independent valuation for some of its equity, funds and interest rates structured products. “We wanted to challenge and double check the valuation provided by our counterparties for our OTC products. We were also interested in developing more expertise to…
Andrew Davidson & Company Launches New Valuations Service for MBS
Andrew Davidson & Company (AD&Co) has launched a new valuation service, the Credit Loss Snapshot, which provides the key credit loss metrics now required by FAS 124 and FAS 157 for credit sensitive residential mortgage backed securities. This report extends the valuation services currently provided by AD&Co for other than temporary impairment (OTTI) and Level…
SIX Telekurs Adds Nasdaq OMX Global Index Data
SIX Telekurs has added the Nasdaq OMX Global Index Data Service data feed to its service. The vendor claims customers can now enjoy the benefits of enhanced descriptive data for improved transparency. The Global Index Data Service is a data feed from Nasdaq OMX Information that consolidates all index and exchange traded fund (ETF) valuation…
LSE Looking to the Future for TradElect
Following the tech blogs as we do, it’s been interesting to follow the smoke concerning the London Stock Exchange and the future of its TradElect system. Now it seems there’s some fire there, with the LSE acknowledging that it’s looking at the future of the platform, and how to keep the exchange in the low…
Kingland Systems to Provide Consultancy Services on Counterparty Data Issues
Kingland Systems is enhancing its data management consulting services, offering a series of services specific to client and counterparty data. These client data consulting services will address all aspects of the client data lifecycle, including client set up, data maintenance and common client data system interaction with other functions such as compliance, risk, operations and…
Increased Demand for Risk Analytics from Buy Side, Finds Northern Trust Survey
The institutional investor and investment management community is keen for more data and analytics around risk management, according to a recent survey by global custodian Northern Trust. Not only is risk a prime area of investment for banks, the buy side is also being forced to re-evaluate its approach to risk modelling and analytics. The…
Asset Control’s Enfield Highlights Focus on Valuations and Counterparties
Following its partnership agreement with business entity data specialist Avox earlier this year, enterprise data management (EDM) vendor Asset Control is keenly focused on the area of counterparty data. Rick Enfield, product business owner of the vendor’s AC Plus solution, explains to Reference Data Review why counterparty data and valuations are so important in the…
SmartStream and Swift Partner for SaaS Reconciliation Solution
Following the launch of its software as a service (SaaS) offering earlier this year, SmartStream has teamed up with Swift to add its TLM OnDemand to SwiftNet. Financial institutions can now communicate with the SaaS version of SmartStream’s reconciliation service via the Swift network, explains Philippe Chambadal, CEO of the vendor. “The notion behind the…