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SciComp Releases SciFinance Version 5.0 with Added Functionality for OTC Derivatives Pricing
Derivatives valuations software vendor SciComp has released a new version of its flagship SciFinance pricing software solution, which it claims will help quantitative developers shorten model development time and create models with faster execution speeds. Version 5.0 of the software has been altered to reflect the new market conditions and new OTC derivatives, says Curt…
SEC’s Ratings Roundtable Agrees to Change Fee Structures for Ratings Agencies
This week’s long awaited Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) roundtable on the future of the ratings agencies threw up very few surprises. The regulator’s chairman Mary Schapiro confirmed that the agency is planning to change the way that ratings agencies are paid to minimise the potential of conflicts of interest and roundtable participants agreed there…
SIX Telekurs Provides Pricing Feed to ValueLink for PriceValidation Clients
ValueLink has selected SIX Telekurs’ Intraday Pricing Service (IPS) as a data provider for its PriceValidation solution. The vendor will cleanse the data from SIX Telekurs’ real-time Market Data Feed (MDF) against a number of feeds from different data suppliers and internal sources and provide it as an optional feed for its PriceValidation clients, explains…
FPL and FISD Sign Agreement to Work Together on Data Standards
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) and the Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Financial Information Services Division (FISD) have signed an agreement to work together on improving the interoperability of data standards and increasing the industry’s adoption of STP. The statement of understanding formalises the relationship between the two non-profit organisations that has been ongoing for…
Vendors Scramble to Upgrade Solutions to Support ISDA’s US CDS Big Bang
Ahead of the introduction of the new credit default swap (CDS) standard protocol on 8 April, the vendor community has been busy upgrading their various solutions to meet the changes for pricing single name CDS contracts. To this end, financial analytics and valuations provider Fincad has updated its Fincad Analytics Suite 2009 for Excel to…
Back on the agenda
If recent discussions, announcements and reports are anything to go by, corporate actions automation is back in the industry spotlight. Despite the continuing economic troubles in the financial markets, firms are still concerned about the threat posed to their bottom lines as a result of errors in corporate actions processing. Both Aite Group and Celent…
Interactive Data Launches New Weekend Pricing Service for Middle Eastern Exchanges
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has introduced a new weekend market close pricing service for 13 Middle Eastern and North African exchanges. The service, which is available via Interactive Data’s FTS securities administration tool, provides end of market prices for the exchanges in the region where trading occurs during weekends, explains Bob Cumberbatch,…
S&P Upgrades ABSXchange Platform for Loan Level Stress Testing and Portfolio Analytics
Standard & Poor’s structured finance platform, ABSXchange, has undergone a number of upgrades this month with a view to allowing users to conduct more robust analysis of their structured finance transactions. The platform, which the vendor bought in August 2007 and is part of its Fixed Income Risk Management Services (Firms) business line, now features…
Bi-Sam Appoints Ex-Reuters Exec Xavier Piquot as Regional Sales Manager for Continental Europe
Analytics software, client reporting and data management solution provider Bi-Sam has appointed ex-Reuters executive Xavier Piquot as its new regional sales manager for continental Europe. The vendor hopes Piquot’s experience within the financial markets and contacts book will allow it to strengthen its presence in the region. Piquot has been in the financial technology market…
S&P Adds Non-US Fixed Income Data from EDI to Securities DataManager
In keeping with its longstanding collaboration with data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI), Standard & Poor’s has added EDI-provided global terms and conditions data on more than 200,000 non-US fixed income securities to its Securities DataManager product. The vendors worked closely together to develop the non-US data offering, which is aimed at allowing customers to…