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Asset Control’s New AC Plus Desktop Tool Aimed at Helping Business Users Get to Grips with Data, Says Enfield
In keeping with its current focus on the valuations space (as discussed in last month’s issue of Reference Data Review), enterprise data management (EDM) vendor Asset Control has released an upgrade for its AC Plus Desktop solution aimed at providing more transparency around pricing data. Rick Enfield, product business owner of the AC Plus solution,…
DocGenix Implements MarkLogic Server for XML Content Delivery
DocGenix, a supplier of legal risk management, has implemented MarkLogic Server as the delivery mechanism for XML content generated by its inSight service. Mark Logic Corporation is a provider of software for information centric applications. The DocGenix inSight service utilises proprietary legal data sequencing technology to translate and represent as XML the complex legal, credit,…
Interactive Data Enhances Cost Basis Service for Multiple Tax Lots
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has enhanced the capabilities of its web-based Cost Basis service. This service is designed to help automate the calculation and delivery of cost basis information and enable firms to more effectively monitor their customers’ securities cost basis over time. Interactive Data has broadened the capabilities of the service…
European Parliament Introduces New Legal Framework for Ratings Agencies
Last week, the European Parliament approved the introduction of a new regulatory framework for the region’s ratings agencies as part of its post-crisis overhaul of the oversight of the financial services sector. The new regulation is aimed at ensuring that credit ratings used in the EU for regulatory purposes are of the “highest quality” and…
ICE Clear Gets a Good Start Off the Blocks, Eurex Expects to Build Momentum
Last week saw the launch of the first two contenders in the credit default swap (CDS) clearing counterparty (CCP) race: IntercontinentalExchange’s (ICE) ICE Clear Europe and Eurex’s Eurex Credit Clear. According ICE’s figures, its first week of operation has been a busy one, clearing €5.9 billion (US$8.4 billion) in CDS indexes since its launch on…
Quantifi Releases Version 9.2 to Support Evolving Global Credit Markets
Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions to the global credit markets, has announced the release of Version 9.2 (V9.2) of the firm’s pricing, hedging and risk analysis software. Quantifi has released V9.2 as part of its ongoing commitment to keep customers up to date with the market’s rapidly changing regulatory and operational…
DST Global Solutions Appoints Sarwal as Chief Exec of its Investment Management Solutions
DST Global Solutions has appointed Arun Sarwal as Chief Executive of its Investment Management Solutions business. Sarwal, who has been advising the company on its strategy since September 2008, will head a business division comprising around 800 employees across some 16 locations with responsibility for solutions strategy, application development and delivery, client support and consulting…
US Department of Justice Scrutinises Markit’s CDS Activities
Regulatory scrutiny of the derivatives market is at an all time high following the financial crisis and the desire of the regulatory community to be seen to be taking the issues raised by the crisis in hand. Most recently up for investigation is data provider Markit Group, which is currently under investigation by the US…
CFTC Grants Eurex Clearing Approval to Clear US OTC Derivatives
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order with respect to the multilateral clearing activities that Eurex Clearing intends to undertake in the United States for OTC derivative instruments. Eurex is a central counterparty licensed by the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungaufsicht (BaFin) of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the order, the CFTC determined…
Volante Earns 2009 Swift Label For SwiftReady Messaging Data Services
Volante Designer for Swift has once again received early certification for the 2009 gold label in SwiftReady Messaging Data Services (MDS). “As always, Volante Designer stands out as a comprehensive messaging data solution for handling Swift messages of all types,” says Eric Meirlaen, business analyst at Swift. “Its metadata-based architecture enables customers to benefit from…