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CheckFree eVent Receives SwiftReady Accreditation
Fiserv’s corporate actions processing solution, CheckFree eVent, has received SwiftReady accreditation for the fifth time. The accreditation reflects the solution’s ability to provide comprehensive support of Swift standards and market practice and it was tested by Swift’s Simulation Testing and Qualification Service (STaQs), to ensure the validation of messaging outputs, such as ISO 15022 MT…
SuperDerivatives Appoints Ex-IBM Hod to Lead Strategic Sales
SuperDerivatives has appointed ex-IBM derivatives and trade processing head Zohar Hod as vice president of strategic sales. Hod specialises in front office to back office derivatives trading, processing, risk management and algorithmic trading, and will be in charge of the vendor’s key accounts. He will be based in the New York office and will be…
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing Appoints Wywoda Head of Global Product Management
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has appointed Dan Wywoda, senior vice president, as head of global product management to replace Gunjan Kedia who has decided to leave the company. Wywoda will continue to be based in Boston and will report to Tim Keaney, co-CEO of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing. In this new role, Wywoda will assume…
Markit Updates RED Following Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Rescue
Following the government rescue of US mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Markit has issued new versions of its CDX indices and the affected Markit RED codes, which include references to either of the providers. The rescue is classified as a bankruptcy credit event under the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) credit derivative…
Hermes Fund Managers Picks Cadis EDM, Cadis Targets Hedge Fund Community
Hermes Fund Managers has implemented the Cadis EDM Suite as its central data management platform across all of its operations. The fund manager selected the platform as part of the revamp of its operating model and chose Cadis in particular due to its fast implementation time, according to Philip Keeler, head of operations & IT…
Carletti Makes Surprise Exit from Telekurs, Buser to Act as Interim Head
Just one month after the announcement of its rebrand and weeks after its decision to up its stakes in the valuations business, SIX Telekurs has announced that Marc Carletti, CEO of its Financial Information division and a member of the group’s executive board, has decided to leave the company of his “own volition”. According to…
Messaging Platforms and Hardware Choices: General Purpose or Accelerated?
Hardware-only vs hybrid vs software-only approaches to handling high data volumes with ultra low latency – Is there a clear winning approach or is the solution dependent on the specific application? Everybody uses hardware for messaging. The real question is: general-purpose or special-purpose hardware? Even special-purpose hardware starts life as software (e.g. VHDL code) which…
Quantifi Adds New Model to Valuation Software for More Realistic Treatment of Market Recovery
Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, has extended the functionality of its credit derivative valuation software to include a new correlated recovery model, which it says will incorporate a more realistic treatment of recovery in the event of default. Quantifi reckons that institutions need to alter their…
RZB Selects Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Data Management
Austrian bank Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) has selected Thomson Reuters’ Enterprise Platform for data management across the RZB Group. The bank is currently engaged in establishing a new market risk infrastructure, which it hopes will provide it with the ability to hedge its portfolios more effectively, enabling substantial savings in hedging costs. The bank engaged in…
KBC Group Selects Ness Technologies for Consolidated Data Management
Brussels headquartered KBC Group has selected Ness Technologies’ Financial Data Enterprise solution to provide an end to end consolidated data management platform. According to the vendor, the deal is a multi-year agreement and involves a combination of Ness’ proprietary software and services. Sudhakar Kondisetty, chief business officer of Ness’ Financial Services, Ness Technologies, says: “Generally,…