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ISDA Introduces New Rules for CDSs, Pickel Testifies Before US Senate Committee, ICE Trust Launches
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has this week introduced new rules governing the market’s dealings with credit default swaps (CDS). Robert Pickel, executive director and CEO of ISDA explained the changes in a testimony before the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs earlier this week. The new rules cover the…
Fitch Solutions Adds Risk and Pricing Benchmarks to Risk and Performance Platform
Against the background of greater regulatory scrutiny of firms’ risk management practices, Fitch Solutions has incorporated new risk and pricing benchmarks into its Fitch Risk and Performance Platform, which was launched in June last year. Jonathan Di Giambattista, senior director at the vendor, indicates the benchmarks, which can be visualised via a new product feature…
Bloor Research Profiles Data Discovery Vendors, Singles Out Rever, Trillium and CA
Consultancy firm Bloor Research has released the first of four market updates profiling the data management vendor community. The report profiles the ‘data discovery’ vendor community, which it indicates is a new sector that has distinguished itself from data profiling. Data discovery deals with: “the discovery of relationships between data elements, regardless of where the…
Interactive Data Partners with Korea’s Koscom for Pricing and Reference Data
Interactive Data’s Pricing and Reference Data business has signed an agreement with Koscom, under which the Korean IT solution provider will provide the data vendor’s international pricing and reference data to the Korean investment community. The data covered by the agreement includes international end of day pricing and corporate actions data. Koscom was established in…
3i Infotech Adds Data Provision and Modelling Features to Reporting to Clients Solution
3i Infotech has released a new version of its client reporting solution that includes new data provision and modelling features, which the vendor claims is aimed at reducing the burden on data providers and adding value to reporting. Reporting to Clients 2.0 is a response to the requirement for greater transparency in the market, says…
Standard Chartered Picks GoldenSource for Corporate Actions Golden Copy Creation
Standard Chartered Bank has chosen GoldenSource Securities & Products to automate the creation of its golden copy corporate actions notifications. The Asian bank began looking for a corporate actions validation solution in early 2008 and began talking to the vendor about the implementation before year end, explains Gert Raeves, senior vice president of strategic business…
Opportunity Knocks for the SMB Market
By Brian Reid, managing director of The Connect Partnership IBM and Oracle products are now more affordable to the smaller and medium sized business (SMB and MMB) marketplace. The opportunity to implement best in class technical and data architecture is now an economically viable proposition for these organisations. At the recent TSAM conference on 3…
SuperDerivatives Upgrades VolSurface Solution for Mark to Market Rules
Derivatives data specialist SuperDerivatives has upgraded and renamed its derivatives revaluation and risk management offering, VolSurface, to accommodate improvements to market data and risk reference data. The service, which is now called Mark-to-Market Data, has been altered to more adequately meet the requests of its customers following recent feedback, says the vendor. Dani Weigert, Mark-to-Market…
Kuwait’s Markaz Rolls Out Fincad Analytics for Derivatives Pricing and Analytics
Middle Eastern asset management and investment banking firm Markaz has completed the rollout of Fincad Analytics for its derivatives pricing and analytics. The firm, which is based in the Kuwait Financial Centre, has implemented the solution as part of its wider plans to build options trading and technology infrastructure for the Kuwait Stock Exchange. Hussein…
ICE US Trust Receives Regulatory Approval from Fed, Interdealer Brokers Get Annoyed, Eurex Declares Out of US
Following the announcement of its European ambitions in February, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has indicated that it has finally received regulatory approval from the board of governors of the Federal Reserve for ICE US Trust to act as a clearing house and central counterparty (CCP) for credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the US. The exchange operator…